The Land and Its Hands is a research project looking at Moonsonal flooding and its effect on textile weaving practices. Located in Ernakulam, Kerala, the project considers the Chendamangalam area when a severe flood nearly wiped out an entire textile practice in 2018. The time capsule, represented as a working handloom, speaks about the vulnerability of local practices in the face of climate change and asks how we can preserve technique and memory through unconventional ways. Can weaving and other textile practices be considered more importantly as tools for archiving and translation in the age of data?
