Affective Methodologies
Art and methodology workshop: testing and rehearsing decolonial practices. November 21 2018.
Info about event
Time
Location
Langelandsgade 143, Building 1585, “Lille Sal”
Program
12.00-13.30: Marine Schütz, Art history, Post.doc in ECHOES (H2020: 2018-2020): "Thinking about decoloniality in Marseille's contemporary art in the plural"
May an artwork created in the West, or in what Walter Mignolo calls a ‘colonizer society’ (2007), be considered as decolonial? May an artwork be qualified as decolonial if the reflexivity it engages does not unfold within the museum, this place from which Mignolo has patterned the extension of its formerly epistemological thinking to the aesthetic realm in order to understand why categories ‘like ‘beauty’ or ‘representation’ have come to dominate all discussions of art and its value, and how those categories organize the ways we think of ourselves and others’ (Mignolo and Vasquez, 2013)?
The talk will attempt to answer these questions in offering an analysis of some artworks made in Marseille’s public space in the 2000s and which, as they are connected to semantics of colonial history, allow to question the distinction that Mignolo and Vasquez argued for, between a decolonial current linked, on the one hand, to the forms of sensing the world ‘preceding any naming of the decolonial’ and, on the other hand, the critical intervention within the contemporary art, ‘running parallel to decolonial epistemic critique’ (Mignolo and Vasquez, 2013). Discussions around two works involved in a critique of the concept of belonging will allow decolonial readings on art in Marseille to be made.
14.00-15.30: Jeannette Ehlers, artist, Copenhagen: "Body talk - on counter narratives and black body politics"
Web-page:
IAmQueenMary.com (Jeannette Ehlers & La Vaughn Belle)
Consult:
Maya Albans’s documentary "Det sorte kapitel" broadcastet on DR1 (no English subtitles). Can be watched here until November 9 2018.
16.00-17.30: François Piquet, Contemporary Art - Guadeloupe, "Prerequisites for decolonial discussion"
During this performative workshop, François Piquet will propose a collective experimentation of various sensations which are constitutive of a complex colonial / decolonial situation, such as he has met during his artistic creation and his daily Caribbean life.
This experience sharing will rely on his sculpture and participatory video works, to touch the violence and conflicting emotions of being collectively assigned to a progressive loss of abilities, singularity and choice.
If decolonial discussion is impossible between two incompatible postures, it is nonetheless unavoidable for the construction of a future that will be common, for better or worse. In order to establish footbridges of understanding, cultural and affective movements are indispensable.
The workshop is funded by Uses of the Past, ICC Research Funds, The Ph.D Program in Arts, Literature and Cultural Studies, AU.
Organizers: Britta Timm Knudsen, Mads Krogh and Carsten Stage