Aesthetic Cosmopolitical Practices in Diasporic Latinx Autohistoria

Abstract

This dissertation sets out to investigate the artistic, political-ontological, and relational practices of diasporic Latin American collectives in Austria. Collectives engaged in decolonial ecofeminist struggles that are connected to philosophies of a good life, of vivir sabroso, that organize themselves around joy and celebration, more-than-human relationalities, spiritual activism (Anzaldúa 2015), and that ‘include and exceed (De la Cadena 2015) modern and counterhegemonic modes of comprehending politics.
Through the use of autohistoria theory in examining the aforementioned aesthetic cosmopolitical practices, my research aims to understand the practical manifestations and impacts of aesthetics cosmopolitics, and to contribute to rethink traditional forms of producing knowledge.
Bringing together theories from the field of Latinx studies, my PhD-project is informed by border feminist thought (Anzaldúa 2015), non-Western, non-modern aesthetic and political histories, and political ontological claims in regards to marginalized communities and their ways of doing cosmopolitics (De la Cadena 2015, Escobar 2020).

Short biography

Imayna Caceres (PER/AUT). Artist researcher working on communal, ontological, spiritual forms of knowledge from mestize Andean Amazonian worlds that exceed and engage with the modern. My work expands through collaboratively research with local ecosystems and in response to political concerns. I engage with communal, ontological, spiritual forms of knowledge from mestize Andean Amazonian worlds that exceed and engage with the modern. MA in Fine Arts and Cultural Studies, I am a graduate in Sociology and in Communication Sciences and a candidate for the Doctorate in Philosophy at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien. Part of Trenza and Antikoloniale Interventionen.