RESEARCH
Research Framework
Inscriptography ↓
Term coined by hijadelacoca, 2026.*
The study of systems of inscription and the operations through which they produce inscriptions. Within hijadelacoca’s practice, bureaucratic, forensic, medical, legal, cartographic, monetary, and computational systems are translated and displaced through textile methodologies to examine how their inscriptions produce authority and shape identity, value, memory, perception, territory, and belonging. The research develops through interconnected lines of inquiry:
Inscriptography ↓
Term coined by hijadelacoca, 2026.*
The study of systems of inscription and the operations through which they produce inscriptions. Within hijadelacoca’s practice, bureaucratic, forensic, medical, legal, cartographic, monetary, and computational systems are translated and displaced through textile methodologies to examine how their inscriptions produce authority and shape identity, value, memory, perception, territory, and belonging. The research develops through interconnected lines of inquiry:
Lines of Inquiry
→ INSTITUTIONAL SYSTEMS
Archives, bureaucracy, and collective memory.
→ DIGITAL SYSTEMS, GENEALOGY & MEMORY
Digital code and inherited archives
- HTML Family Portraits
- <in>Visible-Threads
→ MEDICAL SYSTEMS
Diagnosis, reproductive politics, and embodied perception.
→ TRANSLATION SYSTEMS, NATION & TERRITORY
Language, migration, and belonging.