Abstract

GALARZA, Maite. Wellington Arpil leras: the threads of memory, a near-by far away, and a contemporary past. Índex [online]. 2018, n.5, pp.70-75. ISSN 2477-9199.  https://doi.org/10.26807/cav.v0i04.139.

This text proposes a political reflection about the creative practice of the Wellington Arpilleras, a collective of Latin American women arpilleristas, living in Aotearoa New Zealand. This inquiry about the Wellington Arpilleras propounds a way of “reading” their practice, by bringing forward the ethical and political nature of those group's interventions that transit along spaces often reserved to art, academia and community. To articulate this reflection, it is necessary to recall the particular notion of contemporaneity proposed by Giorgio Agamben. Thus, Agamben’s questions "‘Of whom and of what are we contemporaries?’ And, first and foremost, ‘What does it mean to be contemporary?’" are the starting point this inquiry into Wellington Arpilleras practice, from an ethical-political perspective.

Keywords : arpilleras; women collectives; politic contemporary art.

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