Dear All,
Working disobedience from Latin America is an international encounter organised by Latin Elephant, CIO. It will take place at Tate Exchange - Tate Modern in June 2020 (5-6), and it is part of Latin Elephant's programme for Tate Exchange. It aims to bring together artists, researchers, activists and academics to open up a discussion about art practices and anti/decolonialism in Latinamerica. It focuses on the different forms that power takes in the region, and it considers thinking, narratives, practices and their counter approaches in an attempt to imagine new ways of inhabiting the world.
We would be very grateful if you could help us spread the word to all of those you know might be interested. The call is attached to this message - if the attachment does not work, please send me an email and I can send it individually to those interested.
Information below:
CALL
How to work and be together to think alternative
futures is one of the central questions of our time.
Considering the political and social conditions faced
by the communities in Latinamerica, where power
has been performed and used through the activation
of different processes and actions, thinking on those
territories seems today a relevant point of departure
to open up a discussion about new forms of understanding
and inhabiting the world.
Considering thinking, sensing and doing as three
aspects of knowledge production, the encounter
proposes a series of questions as starting points to
activate discussions and critical analysis: How to
activate a de/anti-colonial practice in Latinamerica?
How to dislocate power structures taking Latinamerica
thinking, sensing and doing as starting
points? When and why de/anti-colonial projects
become truncated? How to dislocate power relations
within the art system? How to propose new
dynamics of power for the extended art field?
We would like to contribute to the discussion related
to de/anti-colonial art practices in Latinamerica,
looking at how the concept of decolonialism itself
has become overused worldwide. Can we hold the
decolonial project or do we need to overcome it with
new concepts for disobedience?
This two-day encounter aims to bring together
artists, researchers, activists and scholars to open
up a discussion around colonialism and de/
anti-colonialism in Latinamerica, focusing on
the different forms that power and knowledge
production take in the region, considering thinking,
narratives, practices and their counter approaches
in an attempt for starting to visualise new forms of
inhabiting the world.
We welcome individual and collective proposals
for workshops, papers or experimental methods of
participation from artists, practioners, activists and
scholars working on the following fields:
• Critical views on concepts such as anti/neo/
de-colonialism
• Art practices in Latinamerica (including any
form of art)
• Critical enquiry into the definition of anti/neo/
de-colonial aesthetics
• Revision of eurocentric aproaches to art history
• Meanings of contemporary art
• Intersectional art experiences
IMPORTANT DATES:
Workshop or paper proposal due: 20th January 2020
Final decisions on papers & workshops: 6th February 2020
Paper submission deadline: 6th May 2020
Encounter: 5th-6th June 2020
ORGANISING TEAM
Joselyne Contreras Cerda, curator and researcher; PhD (c) in Curatorial Knowledge, Goldsmiths. Curator Public Programme Latin Elephant.
Juan Fabbri, artist, curator and anthropologist; Fundación Cultural del Banco Central de Bolivia; And Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas y Arqueológicas de la Universidad Mayor de San Andrés.
Maria/Rosario Montero, artist and researcher; PhD in Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths. Corporación Agencia de Borde.
Latin Elephant, CIO is a Charity working to increase participation and inclusion of migrant groups, and in particular Latin Americans, in processes of urban change in London.
Warmly,
Joselyne Contreras Cerda
Curator and researcher
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