Art Pluriverse: A Community Science Series

providing its students professional training during a time where job search is really difficult. The woven products are created with traditional manual loom machines. The shuttle is operated through a mechanism manually by hand and in combination with the foot pedals produces a handmade fabric. The embroideries are produced on the loom by the dexterity of the fingers where at the same time are weaved.


Artist-Community Synergies
Co-creation of research-based artworks through artist-community synergies, exploring the artistic heritage and cultural knowledge of the communities through new media and contemporary art practices. Art Pluriverse seeks to uplift cultural knowledge systems identified as traditional, local, indigenous or folk, aiming to draw attention towards diverse epistemologies of knowledge co-production. ICH describes living cultural practices that are community-based and collectively experienced, e.g. from shared aesthetic traditions to communal resource management. ICH's multivalent manifestations often deviate from object-centred approaches and The Art Pluriverse: Curatorial text materialities, allowing the mapping of more processual, affective and symbolic ensembles. Through the community science series we envision to further explore ICH and its ecosystem of related concepts, as cultural expressions, collective memory, living heritage and ephemera, up to digital folklore, genetic resources (WIPO, 2020) and living paradigms of commoning through alternative movements and livelihoods that value traditional social systems (Varvarousis, 2019).

FAIR Community Archives
We acknowledge that processes of globalisation and cross-cultural hybridisation can often revive cultural heritage, allowing it to respond to contemporary multifaceted social and cultural environments (Alivizatou, 2016). In this context, we aim to foster convivial spaces of physical and digital co-existence that bring together past and contemporary intangible cultural practices, while advocating for inclusive community participation of regionally active groups and small collectives, including LGBTQ+, BIPOC, diasporic, cross-border and common interest or common needs communities. Art Pluriverse is conceived as a field in the making, a confluence of pluriversal ways of worlding and being, gradually forming its meaning through consecutive editions that will be focusing on different intangible heritage practices. A critical apparatus for the slow exploration of intangible culture within the interdisciplinary art and cultural discourse.
"Embroidering is a feast and spinning is a stroll" [Greek traditional song]

The SEN Heritage
Looms is now conducted by the textile expert Sophia Tsourinaki, whose special area of study is the archaeology of textile production, with focus on combining theoretical analysis with practical knowledge garnered from handicraft processes.

This process also highlights the critical contribution of women in preserving the elements of our traditional heritage."
The FEX Progressive Union of Xanthi (Filoproodi Enosi Xanthis, FEX), is a historic cultural association which has been closely connected to the history of the town.  An art that is lost can become an art that is "reborn".

FEX Progressive Union of Xanthi
Di Moullieri, which means «by women» in the Vlach language,   techniques; and also, in early 2020, she co-created the art initiative "Quokka" along with actor/artist Alkistis Voulgari. Her approach, as a practitioner and researcher, is based on transdisciplinarity and bridging the gap between theory and practice.
Access to knowledge, landscape and culture comprise the core of her work, which is dedicated to rebuilding our relationship to Nature, History and Beauty, while keeping our collective intelligence sharp.

Project description
The idea was to approach textiles as a fundamental part of the

Course description
The Simone's personal mission is to save as much material as possible from extinction.

Course description
In the workshop you learn the basics of Omeka S. It's hands-on, after a short introduction we will start with adding material and describing it. Please prepare 5 digital documents (picture, film or sound). We will add the metadata to it according to the Dublin Core. We will discuss adding fields, which fields and why. The different creative commons licenses and how to add them will also be discussed.

Video description
Batik is a textile-making tradition in