On 27 February 2023, Sara Coleman presented her doctoral thesis Weaving (in) Uncertainty: Textiles as Material Process and Spatial Interface, under the supervision of Dr. Ana Soler Baena, as part of the Doctoral Programme in Creation and Research in Contemporary Art of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Vigo, funded by the Xunta de Galicia Predoctoral Grant. The thesis was awarded a magna cum laude qualification and international mention.

The examination committee was made up of Dr. Andrea Saltzman (University of Buenos Aires), Dr. Dolores Barral Rivadulla (USC) and Dr. Carles Méndez Llopis (Polytechnic University of Valencia). Furthermore, the thesis has been supported by Dr. Miguel Prado (UWE Bristol) and Dr. Fernando Jerez (The University of Western Australia), whose reports endorsed this research to be eligible for international mention.

ABSTRACT:
The theoretical and practical research project focuses on the material relationship between body and space through textile modes. This approach builds on the technological textile model philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari propose in their book A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia (1980), establishing two fundamental modes of spatialisation based on textile typologies that traverse each other. Working with this framework, the presented research posits the idea that the textile reflects an interrelational structure of thought in a body-space relationship that functions on multiple levels, and therefore operates as an interface.

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