Decolonial Aesthetics

ef — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 11:55:10 GMT

Reworking of two texts (see PDF) by Mignolo and Tlostanova.

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Read the texts in summer time.

Discussion, presentations conducted by Grzinic, Marjanovic and Lobo.

5.10.2010, Tuesday

Decolonial Aesthetics: Colloquium with Walter Mignolo and Madina Tlostanova

Academy of Fine Arts, Schillerplatz, Vienna

ROOM M13

At 17.00 until 20.00

The organisation of the Colloquium with Walter Mignolo and Madina Tlostanovais part of the Post-conceptual Art Practices (PCAP) Class at the Academy ofFine Arts specifically conceived work of research of contemporary art andde-coloniality, connected with the passage from biopolitics tonecropolitics. Over the last years, several reading seminars have beenorganized by the PCAP open to the whole Academy, and art works were producedoriginating from this process. This is as well the context for the presentcolloquium.

The colloquium is co-organized with Creating Worlds, research project,Eipcp Vienna.

LECTURES

Madina Tlostanova, Contemporary art as decolonial knowledge production inthe world of imperial difference: institutions, artists, phenomenaWalter Mignolo, (De) coloniality of knowing, being and sensing

The lectures introduce two concepts: de-linking and de-coloniality, (bothreworked by Walter Mignolo and Madina Tlostanova) that implicate a cutwithin contemporary processes of capitalist institutionalization, controland subjugation. De-linking means to de-link ourselves from theunrestrainment of capital that does not allow just a simple opposition, asit does not function as it did in the 1970s as a unity of capital and power,but as co-propriety of capital and power. Therefore, what is necessary is todraw a line of division, in order to de-link ourselves from capital andpower. De-coloniality, on the other hand, presents a political position thatdraws a line inside contemporary processes of coloniality and goes beyondpost-colonialism.

Moderation: Marina Grzinic and Ivana Marjanovic, Academy of Fine Arts,Vienna

BIOS

Walter Mignolo is William H. Wannamaker Professor of Literature and RomanceStudies and Director of the Center for Global Studies and the Humanities, atDuke University. Mignolo's work, currently being discussed acrossdisciplines and internationally, focuses on semiotics, discourse analysisand literary theory. Since the 1980s, he has written extensively in Englishand Spanish on the invention of the Americas, the coloniality of knowledge,and the political, ethical and epistemological imperative to decoloniseknowledge and knowledge production. His work, which has been translated intoPortuguese, French and Russian, includes The Darker Side of the Renaissance(1994 and 2003, awarded the Katherine Kovacs Singer Prize from the MLA),Local Histories/Global Designs (2000) and The Idea of Latin America (2005,awarded the Frantz Fanon Prize from the Caribbean PhilosophicalAssociation.) His forthcoming book, The Darker Side of Western Modernity:Global Futures, Decolonial Options is the third of a trilogy, together withThe Darker Side of the Renaissance and Local Histories/Global Designs.

Madina Tlostanova is professor of History of Philosophy at Peoples'Friendship University of Russia. She has authored over 130 articles many ofwhich were published in Europe and the US, four books in Russian -Multicultural Discourse and US Fiction of the Late 20th Century (Moscow,2000), Living Never; Writing from Nowhere: Post-soviet Literature and theAesthetics of Transculturation (Moscow, 2004), From the Philosophy ofMulticulturalism to the Philosophy of Trans-culturation (New York, 2008),Decolonial Gender Epistemologies (Moscow, 2009) and two in English - AJanus-Faced Empire. Notes on the Russian Empire in Modernity Written fromthe Border (Moscow, 2003) and The Sublime of Globalization? Sketches onTrans-cultural Subjectivity and Aesthetics (Moscow, 2005).

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Decolonial Aesthetics