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In this talk, Rachel da Silveira Gorman highlights works by artists who engage in the work of grieving and historicizing contemporary violence through dance, animation, testimony and repetition — drawing our attention to the body caught by borders, institutions and war. The artists anchor their work in their bodies, on the land and in unfolding transit and return in order to reveal the violence of the settler colonial state, its imperialist adventures and its proxy wars. Silver Gorman argues that these works engage aesthetic modes that reject postcolonial catharsis, through which we are asked to pity and then purge our knowledge of imperialism’s victims. Rather, these works animate an aesthetics of revolutionary grieving, which demand that we “apprehend the policies creating unlivable, un-grievable conditions” (Bryd, Transit of Empire). This talk is part of a larger project that draws on curatorial and performance-based research and contemporary Black, Indigenous and mad studies, in order to articulate an embodied theory of anticolonial aesthetics.
This event is wheelchair accessible.
