TEXTIM IV: Textile and Communality
The Textile Museum of Oaxaca (MTO) invites all people dedicated to the creation of textiles, their preservation, their study and its dissemination, to the 4th Meeting of Mesoamerican Textiles, which we will celebrate from October 16 to 20, 2024 in the city from Oaxaca, Mexico.
TEXTIM seeks to address ‘communality’ in a comprehensive manner, by valuing the contribution made by different branches of knowledge regarding the fabrics of the Mesoamerican area. Likewise, the Meeting aspires to recognize the traditions of other regions of the world that are linked to Mesoamerican textiles due to their materials, techniques or designs.
With these approaches, the conference association invites all people whose work is related to artisanal textiles (spinning, dyeing, weaving, embroidery, unraveling, cultivation of raw materials such as cotton or dyeing plants, etc.) to participate in the Meeting, as well as as well as professionals in archaeology, anthropology, biology, conservation, economics, ethnography, ethnohistory, geography, art history, materials research, linguistics, museography, museology, restoration, semiotics and sociology. People interested in the visual arts, performing arts, communication technologies and design, which revolve around the Mesoamerican fabric, will also be welcome.
Important dates:
Deadline for receipt of proposals: • May 19, 2024
Publication of the program with selected contributions: • June 10, 2024
For people interested in sharing community testimonies, demonstrating techniques and presenting traditional knowledge, please contact the Organizing Committee before May 19, 2024.
The museum association invites interested members of the public to send their proposals for presentations and demonstrations. Some examples of points to cover include (but are not limited to) the following:
• Collective traditional knowledge regarding creative processes of individual authorship and its problems.
• Rescue of oral traditions around textile expressions (weaving processes, loom tools, clothing and iconography).
• Textile symbols as signs of identity.
• Exhibition and/or editorial projects.
• Work to recover traditional knowledge.
• Educational initiatives to develop and strengthen knowledge groups around textiles.
• Community programs for the revitalization and/or production of textiles.
• The influence of the external market on processed textiles and used traditionally in different communities.
The event will be held at the Oaxaca Textile Museum and the San Pablo Cultural Center, located side by side at Hidalgo 917 and 907 respectively, in the Historic Center of Oaxaca de Juárez.
For people interested in presenting a contribution in the presentation sessions, please take into account the following requirements:
• Send a summary of your presentation indicating: Title, authorship, institution, bibliographic references and email address.
• The maximum length of each summary should not exceed one page.
• The proposed papers must be original in terms of data and reflection.
• Do not send complete presentations in other forms or compilations of already published materials.
• Send your summary in a Word document or PDF to the following email address: textim@museotextil.org
