In/Visibilizations – In/Visibilizaciones. De(s)coloniality and Art (by artists from Latin America in Vienna)

In/Visibilizations – In/Visibilizaciones. De(s)coloniality and Art (by artists from Latin America in Vienna) aims to bring the concept of decoloniality with focus on artistic positions related to the Abya Yala (Latin America) to the table, as a means of active visibilization of resistance against power structures (cf. Gomez, Mignolo 2012: 16) imposed by a long history of coloniality in a globalized world (cf. Quijano 2000: 541).

The conference and exhibition aim to deepen in the much-needed debate in the German-speaking scope, like the outstanding case in Austria of the 2006 conference, which preceded the publication Blickwechsel. Lateinamerika in der zeitgenössischen Kunst (VIDC, Kulturen in Bewegung 2007).

The conversation that took place in 2006 will be updated by extending the invitation to a group of female and non-binary (*) artists from Abya Yala living in Vienna.  

The proposal delves into questions about how this group of artists produces a critical body of work from a fluid place of enunciation. How do they deal with the diverse components of the de(s)colonial discourse? How do they refer to Austria as a mirror of contemporary artistic questions about erasure and inclusion? Which shifts and commonalities can be identified in bringing their works together and which statements about de(s)coloniality can be derived from this?   

In/Visibilizations – In/Visibilizaciones. De(s)coloniality and Art (by artists from Latin America in Vienna) documents “other” epistemologies and genealogies that are foundational in the construction of the contemporary time, in a movement that recovers the past to glimpse a possible future horizon of practices inside and outside the academic and artistic fields (cf. Gómez, Mignolo 2012: 18), and in the exercise of looking back and projecting forward, beyond nationalism and narrow definitions (cf. Fajardo-Hill, Guerrero 2017)”.