Discipline of Spanish introduces Roberta Bacic lecture on ‘Arpilleras: Textile Language of Testimony, Resistance and Memory’
The Moore Institute Seminar Room G010 Ground floor The Hardiman Research BuildingArpilleras: Textile Language of Testimony, Resistance and Memory. Roberta Bacic will introduce the popular art form of ‘arpilleras’, pictures made from scraps of cloth, employed in Chile under Pinochet as a means of documenting human rights abuses by the regime, and bearing witness to censored acts of resistance. Her talk will follow the journey of... | Read on »