What is TEXERE Social Justice Collab:
Textile, texture, and text share a root, the Latin verb texere: to weave, plait, construct.
From 2600 BC, cloth and string have been used for counting and marking events. Eventually they have been woven into language, becoming metaphors for describing humanity and culture. The Chinese character for weave (编), which includes the radical pictogram structured by a silk thread, house and net, has been used to tell lived stories. In the late 14th Century, Chaucer used the word text to describe the written story. We weave stories, spin yarns, and follow a story’s thread.
Texere is an interdisciplinary collaboration. Bringing our varying practices of writing, knitting, painting, journaling, weaving, collaging, drawing, and designing, we stitch together constructs to counter divisive fragmentation, in search for social cohesion.
Our ethos is on adaptability, physicality, materiality in building community through art and events.
Weaving our narrative threads will bring us together – an act of protest at a time when the growth of populist narratives are being used to divide and distract us from the international collaboration we need to address societal issues.
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