IAS Turbulent Topology: Keynote talk by Macarena Gómez-Barris

In this presentation, I discuss the histories of violence and exclusion in the Américas in relation to the triple nexus of genocide, ecocide, and feminicide. Engaging the art praxis and production of a range of artists and performers from the Américas, I show how a submerged archive allows for new forms of political seeing, social life, and earth choreographies that are to be found below and beyond the nation state. Engaging the visual arts alongside social and decolonial aesthetic movements is key to new forms of inhabitance and relationality.

Bio

Macarena Gómez-Barris is author of Where Memory Dwells: Culture and State Violence in Chile (UC Press 2010), The Extractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives (Duke University Press 2017), and Beyond the Pink Tide: Artistic and Political Undercurrents in the Americas (UC Press 2018). She is co-editor with Herman Gray of Towards A Sociology of a Trace (University of Minnesota Press 2010) and co-editor with Licia Fiol-Matta of Las Américas Quarterly, a special issue of American Quarterly (Fall 2014). Her new book project is At the Sea’s Edge: On Coloniality and the Oceanic. Her essays have appeared in Antipode, Social Text, GLQ, Journal of Cinema and Media Studies as well as numerous other venues and art catalogues. She has been a Visiting Professor at New York University and a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at FLACSO-Quito. She publishes on decolonial social movements, space and memory, violence and its afterlives, queer and anarchist artistic practices, and submerged perspectives. She is founder and Director of the Global South Center, a transdisciplinary space for experimental research, artistic, and activist praxis, and Chairperson of the Department of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies at Pratt Institute.

This talk is part of the conference 'IAS Turbulence: Turbulent Topology - Violence, Space and Landscape in Visual Culture'. Please find more information here. 

Image:Cecilia Vicuña, Still from Kon Kon (2012)

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