HDSM is excited to announce that next Tuesday, 16th July 16:30 CEST, a final open talk of the online series titled “An Archive of Jamaican Fibre Plants” will be delivered by Lucille Junkere (Sloane Lab Community Fellow / UCL). The vent will accommodate online format. In order to secure your spot please follow instructions on Eventbrite page.
About the speaker:Lucille Junkere is a visual artist, educator and researcher. Recent research focuses on the legacy of colonialism in African Caribbean textile history. The dispossession caused by the transatlantic slave trade means that ancestral and cultural connections have been severed. Through her work, Lucille explores issues of identity and a past connected to chattel slavery. She uses the materiality of cloth, visual symbolism of patterns and embroidery, botanical and ochre pigments to explore the past; loss, grief, healing, resistance and reconnection. (source: https://lucillejunkere.com/)
The abstract of the talk is as follows:
One of the most challenging legacies of the transatlantic slave trade is the destruction of indigenous African knowledge systems. Perhaps the most culturally and historically relevant illustrations of how naming and language are bound up with power and dominance were European colonisers defiling, erasing, denigrating and altering African naming systems. As a consequence, fragmented histories are a staple of peoples who were remade without much of a memory, people whose languages, customs, and beliefs were obscured, devalued, constrained, and disassembled. The Afro-Jamaican journey seeks roots and historical continuity to nurture identity and self-worth. For us to remember, we must reassemble these fragments—to re-make—to rememory. My Sloane Lab Community Fellowship focuses on Jamaican fibre plants as a compliment to my ongoing Jamaican pigment/dye plant research and to deepen connections to land, culture and identity.
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