Event overview
with Macarena Gómez-Barris, Pratt Institute, New York. Part of 'Curating Development' - Autumn Term Seminar Series 2017
In this talk, I focus on art and social movements from three regions in South America. I think with the South and southern epistemes and modes of visuality to attend to the social ecologies that emerge within conditions of extractive capitalism. Long a continent plundered by racial and extractive capitalism, what models of seeing and being otherwise move outside of the development paradigm into other ways to organize economic and social viability? By focusing on Mapuche artist Mapuche Francisco Huichaqueo’s work, and Colombian mestiza artist Carolina Caycedo’s art, as well as the Yasuní movement in Ecuador, I theorize the importance of the art of post-development.
About the speaker
Macarena Gómez-Barris is Chairperson of Social Science and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. She is author of The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Duke University Press, 2017), Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence (UC Press, 2009), and the forthcoming Beyond Left and Right: Politics in the Américas UC Press). She is also co-author, with Herman Gray, of Towards a Sociology of a Trace (University of Minnesota Press, 2010). Her work has appeared in numerous journals as well as art catalogues
(Imageused - Carolina Caycedo, “Inverted Yuma,” still image from Land of Friends, 2014)
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 11 Oct 2017 | 3:00pm - 5:00pm |
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