Positionality: Decolonizing Practices

Sur Gallery / LACAP

Panel on Decolonizing Practices as part of Positionality: Symposium on Latin American and Latinx Art in Canada.

Positionality: Symposium

The symposium will be a 4-day gathering of a range ofvoices concerned with Latinx art in Canada.

Programming: Saturday, April 23, 2022, 12 pm EST via Zoom Chair: Tamara ToledoPresenters: Rodrigo Barreda, Armando Perla, Luz Sierra If we understand colonialism to be a period of socio-historical and geopolitical relations as well as an imposed economic condition in which the sovereignty of a nation rests in the power of another, then we must also understand that coloniality refers to the ongoing patterns of power domination that emerges as a result of colonialism. Hence, coloniality is a result of colonialism, and is ongoing within a neoliberal system in which capitalism plays a crucial role with its system of domination and exploitation. Western modernity would not be possible without coloniality and vice versa. Nonetheless, a decolonial turn has shifted frameworks, discourses, and practices, opening possibilities for knowledge, growth, and change. As Nelson Maldonado Torres explains, “decoloniality refers to efforts at rehumanizing the world, to breaking hierarchies of difference that dehumanize subjects and communities and that destroy nature, and to the production of counter-discourses, counter-knowledges, counter-creative acts, and counter-practices that seek to dismantle coloniality and to open up multiple other forms of being in the world.” This panel highlights a myriad of possibilities of how to provide clarity, insight, resiliency, and defiance, to confront our present state of coloniality. The counter-narratives presented by the panelists, challenge structures of power and build community through ideas and practice, offering different worldviews: decolonizing institutions, museums, and systems; designing activist strategies of defiance; and sharing the power of art as a medium to communicate resistance and communal activism. To learn more about the presenters click <a href="https://www.surgalleryvirtual.ca/10750885" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">here.</a>ABOUT THE <a href="https://lacap.ca/curatorial-projects/latin-american-speakers-series/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a>SYMPOSIUMThe symposium seeks to address the systemic barriers faced by the Latin American and Latinx community in Canada and will identify common grounds from where to begin an analysis with the intention to develop strategies of resistance, build networks of solidarity and exchange, improve the livelihood of art practitioners, and grant opportunities for an underrepresented community. The symposium will be a 4-day gathering of a range of voices concerned with Latin American and Latinx art in Canada. Our intention is to build community, valuable contacts, and long-lasting networks. During the symposium we will offer opportunities to engage with artists and scholars during various events, expand perspectives, and develop frameworks for the study of Latin American and Latinx art in Canada.All events will be free and open to the public. For more information on additional programming please visit: <a href="https://www.surgalleryvirtual.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.surgalleryvirtual.ca/</a><a href="https://www.surgalleryvirtual.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"></a>ABOUT SUR GALLERYSur Gallery is Toronto&#x27;s first gallery space dedicated to the exhibition and critical engagement of contemporary Latin American and Latinx art and is a project of LACAP.For information contact:info@surgallery.ca<a href="http://www.surgallery.ca" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">www.surgallery.ca</a><a href="https://www.surgalleryvirtual.ca/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">https://www.surgalleryvirtual.ca/</a>www.facebook.com/LACAPsurgalleryhttps://www.youtube.com/user/lacapcanada/videosLACAP and Sur Gallery gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, and The City of Toronto through section 37 as well as its community partners Hemispheric Encounters, York University’s School of the Arts, Media, Performance &amp; Design, Performance Studies Canada, Department of Visual Arts Western University, York University’s Graduate Student Association, The Power Plant, Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre, Institute for Creative Exchange, Vtape, Mujer Artista, and SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art.

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