Conferencia Fabian Villegas | Ciclo 'Metodologías decoloniales en la creación artística'

We are excited to present the first lecture of our series “Decolonial Methodologies in Artistic Creation” given by Fabian Villegas (Mexico, 1985).

Lecture: Fabian Villegas

Anticolonial aesthetics, historical memory and new curatorial cartographies’.

Thursday, September 26 at 7 p.m.

Venue: Librería La Caníbal (C. de Nàpols, 314, Gràcia)

Cycle: “Decolonial methodologies in artistic creation”.

Coordination: Rodrigue Mouchez Armendariz and Andrea Velásquez Butrón

By performatively occupying political positions, especially anti-racist, decolonial and heterodisident, falsely radical or reparative, contemporary art deploys and reproduces processes that involve hypocrisy and cynicism, reinforcing with each new project, exhibition or curatorial text, the status quo of whiteness and modernity.

From our own frustrations and desires as creators with a critical perspective and political imagination, what strategies can we collectively activate to counteract the voracity of contemporary art, which wants everything to revolve around it, which wants to see and know everything, which wants everything to be accessible and immediately consumable? What methodological strategies can we use to carry out our artistic and curatorial research – from a critical perspective – without at the same time feeding the coloniality of power and knowledge? How can we abandon the cult of the individual and enunciation – the foundation of contemporary thought – and favor other ways of relating, thinking and creating, as can be found, for example, in community processes linked to listening?

Privileging a multidisciplinary, critical and self-reflexive approach, we will invite artists, art curators and theorists, as well as professors and researchers from Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and the Maghreb, to initiate exchanges around these questions and provocations. Based on their work and perspectives, we will try to identify and share some of the methodological tools and reflections that we find inspiring.

We start this month!