Conference
Arts and anti-extractive policies in Latin America
Lecture given by Macarena Gómez-Barris (Brown University, New York)
13th Leandre Cristòfol Art Biennial – Prologue
Centre d’Art la Panera
11.11.2024
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In this presentation, Macarena Gómez-Barris traced the practices of indigenous activists, intellectuals and artists that take place in extractive zones (regions of South America known for their biodiversity and a long history of exploitative extraction of resources naturals), who resist and reject the terms of racial capital and the continuing legacies of colonialism.
Macarena Gómez-Barris is a writer and academic, with a focus on decolonial environmental humanities, authoritarianism and extractivism, Latin queer epistemes, media environments, racial ecologies, cultural theory and artistic practice. She is the author of four books, including The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Duke University Press, 2017), which examines five scenes of ruinous extractive capitalism, and Beyond the Pink Tide: Art and Political Undercurrents in the Americas (UC Press, 2018), a text of critical hope about the role of submerged art and solidarities in turbulent times. She is also the author of Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (2009), and co-editor with Herman Gray of Toward a Sociology of a Trace (2010). She is editor of the “Dissident Acts” series at Duke University Press, along with Diana Taylor.
Activity linked to the exhibition From Mars to Venus, 13th Leandre Cristòfol Art Biennial – Prologue, curated by María Íñigo Clavo and Christian Alonso.
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