Talk
Anticolonial Cartographies: Reimagine the Visual Narrative
Sat 26 Feb, 6pm-8pm
Cindy Sissokho (France) and Fabián Villegas (Mexico) will be in conversation about their respective practices and share common reflections that interrogate efforts of anti-colonial aesthetics within curatorial and artistic practices, specifically within the realm of visual culture and contemporary photography. One of the aims of this talk is to activate a south to south dialogue that can reflect on the role that a Western-centric gaze has played in constructing a colonial narrative of space, temporality, regimes of representation about the Global South, diasporic itineraries, migration processes, and racialized bodies. How can photography and visual cultures be a possibility for pedagogical and political encounters for radical imagination and metaphors of the future?
[This talk will be held in English]
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Cindy Sissokho (b. Montreuil/France) is a cultural producer, curator and writer with a specific interest in intellectual, political and artistic aspects of decoloniality within the arts, and culture. Her work is nurtured by the urgency to broadening and disseminating epistemologies and new cultural production from the Global South.
Her curatorial work is a practice of disobedience contrary to hegemonic discourses and neoliberal institutional politics by implementing disorder. She does so by working through collaborative practices, accessible writing and everyday pedagogical tools and exchanges, amongst others.
She currently works as a Curator and Special Projects Producer at the New Art Exchange in Nottingham (UK).
Fabian Villegas (México) is a Writer, journalist, spoken word artist, scholar and researcher in South epistemologies, decolonial thoughts and racial studies. Since 2007 to date, Fabian Villegas has been invited to give multiple conferences, seminars, lectures and workshops in various universities and academic centers, renowned art biennials and community cultural centers across the globe (México, Dominican Republic, France, Spain, Puerto Rico, Brasil, Uruguay, Argentina, Guatemala, Dubai, Morocco, Costa Rica, U.S, Venezuela, Belice. He is also the co-founder of Contranarrativas, a collaborative project that seeks to create horizontal knowledge production spaces to stimulate the visibility, dissemination, and production of decolonial epistemologies, narratives and peripheral aesthetics of the Global South. Born in Mexico City, Villegas currently resides in the Dominican Republic.
Fabián Cevallos Vivar is a Post-doctoral researcher at the University of Lisbon, Faculty of Fine-Arts and PhD in Post-Colonialisms and Global citizenship, University of Coimbra. He is a Researcher and Professor in Latin American Council of Social Sciences (CLACSO)/Center for Social Studies (CES) and Researcher at the University of Lisbon, Center for Research and Studies in Fine Arts (CIEBA).
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©Dawit L. Petros, Untitled, Prologue II , 2015
