For my work in textiles, it is imperative in my pedagogic journey to develop a series of decolonial textiles lectures and tool kits that disrupts the way textile education is formulated. I use my presence and research as a textile artist and researcher to interrupt institutional spaces, and my roles teaching within UAL that is no different.
I have developed a lecture that was open to Chelsea textiles students, to reflect on their work they had done with me using backstrap looms, and the provenance of indigenous technology we were using that is found in Mexico, Peru, Guatemala, and China, Indonesia, Bhutan,North Eastern India, Thailand, and many South Asian and South East Asian remote places where this weaving is still found.
Some slides from the lecture that show how the lecture supported the weaving workshop, and continued these conversations around global knowledge and colonial contexts of materials and technology and archives.