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Following on from the panel discussion Decolonising the Mind, Provincialising the West in 2017, this event continues a series of responses to the publication Extending the Dialogue, produced by the Igor Zabel Association, and engages further translocal conversations on ‘horizontal histories’ (Piotrowski) and systematic efforts to challenge decolonial experiments in the arts and education. This series invites scholars, artists and practitioners to engage in and reflect on ways of developing the ‘decolonial option’ (Mignolo/Vazquez) through their artistic, curatorial, pedagogic and social justice practices.
Plotting Decolonial Options: Translocal Interrogations invites speakers to reflect on the discursive contexts they perform and inhabit, from the (trans)local to the institutional. The speakers examine possible forms of solidarity and resistance across geohistorical margins and focus on local instances of artists’ communities, arts institutions and curatorial practices. Opening up the discussion, we ask: Which decolonial gestures should we turn to in our writing, organising and curating practices, and what is the role of the place and position of the subject in shaping these options?
Plotting Decolonial Options: Translocal Interrogations invites speakers to reflect on the discursive contexts they perform and inhabit, from the (trans)local to the institutional. The speakers examine possible forms of solidarity and resistance across geohistorical margins and focus on local instances of artists’ communities, arts institutions and curatorial practices. Opening up the discussion, we ask: Which decolonial gestures should we turn to in our writing, organising and curating practices, and what is the role of the place and position of the subject in shaping these options?
Resources:
Rolando Vazquez and Walter Mignolo, Decolonial AestheSis: Colonial Wounds/Decolonial Healings, Social Text, 15 Jul. 2013.
Piotrowski, Piotr, Toward a Horizontal History of the European Avant-Garde, European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, pp. 49 – 58.
Piotrowski, Piotr, Toward a Horizontal History of the European Avant-Garde, European Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies, pp. 49 – 58.
06:30 pm
Tue, 05 Jun 2018
Cinema 2
Programme
6:30 – 6:45pm Introduction
6:45 – 7:10pm Edit András presents on the question: What is to be done with the decolonial option, with regard to art history in the context of socialist utopias and post-socialist dystopias?
7:10 – 7:35pm Chandra Frank draws on recent curatorial projects such as Re(as)sisting Narratives (2016) and current research grappling with questions of care, curatorial practice and the use of archives within a translocal context.
7:35 – 7:55pm Katya García-Antón presents her work at the OCA in Oslo, where she is developing a two-year programme of research and projects, Thinking at the Edge of the World. Perspectives from the North, dedicated to indigenous thought and practice.
7:55 – 8:30pm Juliet Steyn moderates a discussion with the panellists.
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