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- Herausgeber: AILAE Publications
- Kategorie: Geisteswissenschaft
- Sprache: Englisch
Art, curating, critiquing practices today take place in a world where notions of postcolonial, neo-colonial, decolonial, global, co-exist and continue to play roles that puzzle as well as challenge us. This state of things generates affiliations and relationships between art practice and curating, critique, power and the markets. Relationships which are at times new, at times rather trite and well-trodden. Decolonize! is the first act of a bold, collective production, simultaneously live and online,to explore multiple visions of contemporary art practice, to investigate ways to curate and to critique today in what is an extremely varied world.
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Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018
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Renata Summo-O’Connell (ed.)
Decolonize!
Illustration and front cover© Botticelli in Cairo (2018) by Qarm Qart
No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photocopy, microfilm or any other means, without prior written permission from the publisher. All rights reserved.
This book was made possible through the financial support of Artegiro Contemporary Art and of a Private Donor.
©ARTEGIRO PUBLISHING
Éditions Scientifiques Internationales
Conzano, 2018
Piazza Australia 1 15030 Conzano, Italy
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epublished thanks to the streetlib platform
graphics by paolo belli 2018 - [email protected]
ISBN 978882831886
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Indice dei contenuti
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Decolonial openings Renata Summo-O’Connell
Flux and Place
Deep interview performing questioning on shaping and monitoring of borders
Susanna Schoenberg and Christiane König, Germany
A line of one’s own
Maria Rosa Jijon, Ecuador and Monica Sassatelli, UK
A kangaroo was there
Ilze Petroni, Argentina
Whose Mediterranean - Postcards of a diaspora dialogue
Qarm Qart, Egypt and Renata Summo-O’Connell, Italy
Storytelling and place making: a bicultural meeting place in Central Australia
Roberta Trapè, Italy
Towards a Transnational Citizenship: Alternative Senses of Dwelling and Belonging
Celeste Ianniciello, Italy and Michaela Quadraro, Italy
Artists Choices
Nooduitgang, the deconstruction of power.
Nonkululeko Chabalala, South Africa
Provisional Interiors. "Experiencing empathy trough humanistic photography in the Mediterranean region"
Giulio Rimondi, Italy
Atomic Culture: how cultural meanings and movements are socially produced through art and interaction.
Atomic Culture, USA, Mexico
Negotiating historical conflict in the modern age-artistic collaboration in Australia. A few notes.
Emma Barrow, UK and Maree Clarke, Australia
Note
dedicated to all those artists, curators, critics who theorize and practice
Acknowledgments
I would like to acknowledge the Conzano City Council and the AILAE association for having made it possible for the first Forum to take place in Conzano, where the Decolonize! research project actually started.
Without their support, their assistance in making accessible venues for both, the forum happenings and most participants’ accommodation as well as their travel, the project could have not begun.
The absence of institutional funding has meant that a good number of the participants’ participation to the Forum in 2016, as well as their writing, was entirely self-funded. The openness and eagerness of everyone involved, has been inspiring.
For this I would like to thank all the authors and participants in this collective writing endeavour, for their complete and total trust in this project, against all odds and all trends.
I want to thank in particular Dr. Ilze Petroni, from Argentina, Dr. Emma Barrow from Australia, Dr. Monica Sassatelli from the UK, artist Qarm Qart from Cairo, Egypt and Dr. Vivian Gerrand from Melbourne, Australia. Their presence at the forum, in person or via Skype, travelling from the farthest places, their efforts to contribute to the current text overcoming various difficulties, were considerable and their perseverance empowering.
We thank artist and friend, Qarm Qart, (Egypt), for producing the amazing cover of this book. The artwork, Botticelli in Cairo, is testimony to Qarm’ faith in the project and with the generous offer of his artistry, has provided a significant cover for this publication.
We are very much obliged to editor Alice Beaver, for her enthusiastic editing sections of the book and to graphic artist, Paolo Belli, for his rigorous and creative input in the graphic work.
Thanks to everyone who has contributed towards Decolonize! making it an exciting read, online for the moment, and hopefully in print one day.
Renata Summo-O’Connell
Decolonize! Editor, Artegiro Project Director
Introduction
Decolonial openings
Renata Summo-O’Connell
i. At a recent international conference, I witnessed a conversation between a European research project leader and a conference participant. In that verbal exchange I realised that “decolonizing” emerged as a sort of overarching humanitarian intellectual attitude against prejudices and discriminations. The notion, shared by both interlocutors, transformed decolonizing in a sudden recipe for overcoming all conflicts and crisis. In this publication the authors have attempted a more problematic discussion of the issues involved in post colonization and its complexities.
ii. From Fanon’s sociogenesis to Walter Mignolo’s Decolonial Aesthetics Manifesto, many of us, artists, curators and art critics working closely in contact with “the colonial wound”, are acutely aware of racialization as classification and ranking, of its man-made origin, as Mignolo says. The reflection performed in this collection of artworks and texts, is about the effort to practice various brands of decoloniality, to open up more and more, through knowing and understanding, decolonial artistic creativity and decolonial critique, promoting an exchange of such process, together with its occasional findings.
iii. A pursuit of “forms ever new”, a realization that theory takes the form of theatre, avoiding a sharp choice between literary fiction and scientific styles, striving to experiment: this was our chosen brief for this publication format.
iv. We, the authors of this publication, are artists, curators, critics, scholars and activists: our contributions to this collective reflection are mainly textual and visual, although, occasionally, some authors have chosen to propose their argument entirely on a visual level. We have endeavoured to be substantial, challenged by theory and challenging theory, questioning assumptions, incorporating sounds, videos and images, beyond eurocentrism (when this applied to our position), as well as avoiding other fixed and impermeable positionings.
v. Art, curating, critiquing practices today take place in fact in a world where notions of postcolonial, neo-colonial, decolonial, globalized co-exist, where the aftermath of colonialism continues to play roles that puzzle as well as challenge us. A state of things that generates affiliations and relationships between art practice and curating, critique, power and the markets, creates situations that are at times new, at times rather trite and well-trodden. Decolonize! is only the first act of a bold, collective reflection, simultaneously live and online[1], designed to explore multiple visions of contemporary art practice, to investigate ways to curate and critique today in what is an extremely varied world.
vi. For these reasons, with Braidotti and Glissant, the Decolonize! project banks on creolization of languages, proposing an exercise that is not academic and does not wish to be. Through collaborations between artists and writers or written and visual reflections, excerpts of written and visual journals by individual authors, we have tried to explain our experiences in decolonizing critical practice and curating, as well as exposing failures and successes.
vii. Last but not least, Decolonize! is also the inaugural publication of artegiropublishing.com. It celebrates a new start in facing the unavoidable questions our contemporary, intensely close, but deeply diverse world presents us with.
Flux and Place
Deep interview performing questioning on shaping and monitoring of borders
Susanna Schoenberg and Christiane König
video by Susanna Schoenberg produced by arte e parte
text written by Susanna Schoenberg and Christiane https://vimeo.com/decolonizeapublication
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