Ruptured Histories: Extraction – Coloniality and the Decolonisation of Identities
The Ruptured Histories webinar is open to AICA members and non-members, students and academics, worldwide. There is no charge for attending.
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RUPTURED HISTORIES is a series of Web Symposiums presentedby AICA (the International Association of Art Critics) on the initiative of the AICA Forum Committee (formerly the Fellowship Fund Committee). This is the fifth and last iteration of the Ruptured Histories theme. Further information on previous seminars in this series
According to theorists like Edward Said, Walter Mignolo and Aníbal Quijano, while Colonialism as a political organization has ended, its more vicious structure – coloniality – endures in many former European colonies, especially those situated in the Global South. Whereas the political structure controlled by the European metropoles gave way to national governments across the globe, the control of subjectivities remains ever present in the contemporary world through the suppression of cultural specificity and identities.
As Mignolo elaborated, Coloniality is the downside of modernity, which means that practices of colonialism and those of coloniality have historically been the base for the development of capitalism as modernity’s major project. Among those practices, extraction can be widely understood as regarding the spoils of the land and its wealth, but also the spoiling of identities, social practices like knowledge, art and religion, as much as many other cultural traits not conformed to the European status quo.
Hence, artists and theorists from the Global South – or working on its history, art and culture – have been dedicated to identifying and reflecting on the legacy of colonialism and coloniality, a legacy that is fundamentally extractivist in nature. Our webinar thus focuses on the extraction of identities, their frameworks and their resources. By framing identity as part of a reciprocal ecological system we are able to consider a wide range of associated topics that include individuality, communities, beliefs, gender, nature, ecology and society – as entrenched hierarchical constructs that can be unravelled and complicated through a process of decolonial enquiry.
Speakers
Christian Kravagna
Paula Albuquerque
Sandra Gamarra Heshiki
Robert-Jan Muller (moderator)
Members of the AICA Forum Committee
Prof. Karen von Veh, Vice President of AICA International and AFC Chairperson, is Professor Emerita in art history at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
Dr. Danièle Perrier, Past President of AICA Germany and past chair of the Fellowship Fund Committee (now the AFC), is an art historian, founding director of the Ludwig Museum Koblenz and writer on modern and contemporary art.
Niilofur Farrukh, AICA Pakistan, and Chairperson of the AICA Censorship Committee, is an art interventionist whose seminal initiatives have expanded the space for art publication, curation and public art in Pakistan.
Robert-Jan Muller, MA, is an AICA International board member and an art historian. He publishes articles on modern and contemporary art in various publications, including Museumtijdschrift. He is an honorary member of AICA Netherlands and is internationally active in the AICA Forum Committee.
Dr. Joke de Wolf, President of AICA Netherlands, is a fulltime freelance art critic, publishing regularly for the national newspaper Trouw and weeklynewsmagazine De Groene Amsterdammer.
Malgorzata Kazmierczak, is President of AICA International and a member of AICA Poland.
Marta-Anna Raczek-Karcz, AICA Poland, is a curator and art critic dealing with contemporary printmaking and graphic art, with special focus on social agency and critical potential of this medium of art.
Anna Lucia Beck, Vice-president for Midwest Brazil AICA, is an Art History Professor at the Universidade Federal de Goiás in Brazil, and a member at the European Society of Comparative Literature (ESCL/SELC).
Dr. Jurij Dobriakov, President of AICA Lithuania, is a writer, curator and Associate Professor at the Vilnius Academy of Arts.
