“Practical disobedience from Latin America” Tate Exchange

“Practical Disobedience from Latin America” is an international gathering at Tate Exchange organized by Latin Elephant and the Bolivian Central Bank’s Cultural Foundation. This two-day meeting aims to bring together artists, researchers, activists, and scholars to open a discussion on colonialism, anticolonialism, and decolonialism, focusing on different manifestations of power and the production of knowledge in the region. The discussions will consider all manner of relevant ideas, narratives, and practices in an attempt to begin to visualize new ways of inhabiting the world.
Individual and collective proposals for workshops, articles, or experimental methods of participation will be accepted from artists, professionals, activists, and academics working in the following fields:
-Critical views on concepts such as anti/neo/de/post/colonialism
-Artistic practices in Latin America (including any form of art)
-Critical research on the definition of anti/neo/de/colonial aesthetics
-Analysis of Eurocentric approaches to art history
-Meanings of contemporary art
-Intersectional artistic experiences
Important Dates
Submission of proposals:
20 January 2020
Notification of proposal selection:
6 February 2020
Submission of articles:
May 6, 2020
Meeting:
5-6 June 2020
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Proposals should be sent by e-mail to: info@workingdisobedience.com
Please include the following:
1.Name
2.Country
3.Affiliation (not required)
4.Brief biography of no more than 200 words.
5.Proposals for workshops, essays or experimental methods of presentation should range between 400 and 500 words, either in Spanish or English.
6.Final articles must range between 3,000 and 5,000 words, and may include images, but the authors are responsible for copyrights. Visual proposals or essays are also welcome for publication.
*The selected proposals will be published on the event's website after the event.
For more information: http://www.desobediencias.com