We grow because we come together
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| free admission |
| kein Ticket erforderlich |
| German, Spanish |
| Mechanical Arena in the Foyer |
| Part of: SPÄTI |
A collective book born from encounters between weavers, artists, and activists in Northern Argentina.
Crecemos porque nos juntamos (We Grow Because We Come Together) is the result of a multi-year collective process among weavers, artists, and activists from northern Argentina. The book brings together texts, memories, and voices that emerged during gatherings of the Unión Textiles Semillas – a network of nearly 300 women interweaving art, social practice, and communal knowledge.
In a conversation between Andrei Fernández and Michael Dieminger, moderated by Gaby Cisterna, the discussion will revolve around collective writing as a practice of care, weaving as a space of knowledge, and the question of how crecer juntas – growing together – becomes a form of aesthetic and political empowerment. Through excerpts and reflections from the book, the speakers will offer insights into the project’s development: moments of listening, negotiation, translation, and the shared experience of creating a work made by many hands.
The evening will be accompanied by FALSO CONEJO – the Argentine duo Carla Abilés and Gustavo Obligado. Their performance merges popular music archives from Latin America with experimental sound practices, creating a collective listening experience shaped by memory, rhythm, and resonance.
The book was published in 2024 by Metaninfas (Argentina) and emerged from the Textiles Semillas project, developed within the program 99 Questions at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin.
Schedule
4:30-6 pm: DJ
6-7 pm: Talk
7-7:30 pm: Music
About Unión Textiles Semillas
Unión Textiles Semillas (UTS) brings together nearly 300 weavers, artists, and activists from twelve groups of Indigenous and rural communities in northern Argentina, along with a group of Sembradoras – an intercultural collective for organization and research. Founded in 2023, UTS connects textile practice with economic autonomy, the transmission of knowledge, and the collective building of relationships grounded in care and collaboration.
The project Textiles Semillas was initiated within the artistic-research program 99 Questions at the Humboldt Forum, curated by Michael Dieminger. In close collaboration with Argentine curator Andrei Fernández, it developed into a long-term exchange that led to the founding of Unión Textiles Semillas in 2023.
Participants
(born 1983 in Cutral-Có, Argentina) is a curator, cultural promoter, and researcher. She studied Fine Arts at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT) and Social and Political Anthropology at FLACSO. Her projects link contemporary art with social and community-based practices. Fernández has curated exhibitions in Argentina, Germany, Spain, Guatemala, Mexico, Paraguay, Portugal, and the United Kingdom. She is co-founder of Unión Textiles Semillas and currently works in the Wichí territory in northern Argentina on projects around art and cultural self-determination.
is a curator at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, where he leads the artistic-research platform 99 Questions, which centers collective knowledge production and pluriversal curatorial practices. His work connects curatorial research with socio-ecological questions, developing infrastructures of resonance between art, science, and local practice. In recent years, he has collaborated closely with institutions such as the Museo Experimental El Eco and Casa del Lago (both in Mexico City), Pivô (Salvador de Bahia), and the Centre d’art Waza (Lubumbashi).
is a researcher and lecturer at the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán. She is a PhD candidate in Philosophy (UBA), a trained curator (UNTREF), and a journalist (Columbia University–San Andrés). Currently in Berlin with a Rave Scholarship from the Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, she is undertaking research at the Humboldt Forum.
She is part of the Sembradoras, an intercultural research collective that accompanies the growth of Textiles Semillas. The Sembradoras bring together weavers, artists, researchers, and activists from different communities who understand textile practice, knowledge, and community as living, interconnected forms.
is an Argentine artistic production duo founded in 2017 by Carla Abilés and Gustavo Obligado. Their work engages with installation, sound, and listening. FALSO CONEJO composes original pieces and soundscapes from an archive of popular music from Latin America, with a focus on northwest Argentina —including cumbia, folk music, and field recordings— which they reinterpret through the affective and sonic memories of the Global South.They have presented their work at festivals in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, and Germany.