Photo of Open Studio: Weaving a Pluriversity (2024) at Framer Framed, Amsterdam. Photo: © Lina van den Idsert / Framer Framed. 8 Jun 2024
14:00 - 17:00
Weaving a Pluriversity: Conversation between Mamo Arwawiku and Rolando Vázquez Melken
Join us for the closing day of Weaving a Pluriversity on 8 June for a conversation between spiritual leader Mamo Arwawiku from the Iku community Kwarte Umuke from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia, and teacher and decolonial thinker Rolando Vázquez Melken. With the studio project Weaving a Pluriversity, the Pluriversity Weavers have created a temporal space for dialogue with participants in Amsterdam to practice other ways of learning and to touch upon the need to protect ancestral knowledge.
The Pluriversity Weavers are a group focused on deconstructing colonial heritage through affirmative practices aimed at thinking in communality with living territory. With this open studio project they aimed to interweave their knowledge with that of the Iku community from Colombia, opening up to multiple co-existing knowledges and the need to respect different ways of living. Weaving a Pluriversity included gatherings and conversations with Indigenous thinkers to discuss the human connection with our environments through guided walks, collective weaving, a reading and film screenings.
The project kicked off on 13 April with an introductory open day. On 4, 11 and 18 May there were workshops and conversations with activities guided by spiritual leader Mamo Arwawiku and youth member Dwanimako Arroyo Izquierdo from the Iku community Kwarte Umuke from Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta, Colombia. On this closing day on 8 May, there will be a conversation between Mamo Arwawiku and Dr. Rolando Vázquez Melken, Professor of Post/Decolonial Theories and Literatures at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis of the University of Amsterdam. There will be a translation from Spanish to English.
Weaving a Pluriversity will travel onwards to Soils, a group exhibition exploring the meaning of soil as both matter and metaphor at the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.
This event is in Spanish and English and is free of charge.
Date & time
8 June 2024 | 14:00 – 17:00
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Location
Framer Framed
Oranje-Vrijstaatkade 71
1093 KS, Amsterdam
Acknowledgements
Weaving a Pluriversity is a prelude to the forthcoming exhibition Soils at Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven. Weaving a Pluriversity is presented in collaboration with Van Abbemuseum.
Framer Framed is supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science; Amsterdam Fund for the Arts; Municipality of Amsterdam; and VriendenLoterij Fonds.
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Exhibitions
Open Studio: Weaving a Pluriversity
A series of gatherings on the human connection to our environments, organised by the Pluriversity Weavers
Exhibition: The One-Straw Revolution
An exhibition curated by iLiana Fokianaki exploring permaculture as a methodology for exhibition-making
Agenda
Decolonial Summer School: Celebrating 15 Years of the Maria Lugones Decolonial Summer School
Events hosted by leading experts in the field of decolonial thinking at Framer Framed (Amsterdam) and Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven)
Open Studio: Weaving a Pluriversity
A series of gatherings on the human connection to our environments, organised by the Pluriversity Weavers
Network
Mamo Arwawiku
Spiritual leader
María Eufemia Arroyo Izquierdo
Pluriversity weaver
Dwanimako Arroyo Izquierdo
Pluriversity weaver
Dwasimney Del Carmen Izquierdo Torres
Pluriversity weaver
Seynawiku Izquierdo Torres
Pluriversity weaver
Natalia Giraldo Jaramillo
Researcher and Pluriversity weaver
LI Yuchen
Visual and performance artist
Ana Bravo Pérez
Artist
Aldo E. Ramos
Poet and decolonial storyteller
