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Book Release Event

Anti*colonial Fantasies Book Presentation  Hosted by X SPACE and Anticolonial fantasies

Saturday, December 9 at 6 PM - 10 PM X SPACE Kandlgasse 24, 1070 Vienna, Austria

PROGRAMM

19:00 Lecture by Imayna Caceres, Sunanda Mesquita, Sophie Utikal 20.00 Artist Talk with participating artists 20:30 Dj B.B collection aka Bicha Boo collective (Pêdra Costa/ Mzamo Nondwana) *all evening: book stall by Verlag Zaglossus

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+++++++The Book is out!

Credits: Patricia Cadavid 

Autohistorias of Marginalized Subjects

Anti*Colonial Fantasies / Decolonial Strategies brings together artists from different diasporas, students and lecturers, who engage with a critique of the repercussions of colonialism—including in academia—and the quest for transforming this reality. Anti*Colonial Fantasies is a student and lecturer initiative that is part of a history of decolonial, postcolonial, antiracist initiatives at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and within Austria. It belongs to a genealogy of artistic works produced by BPoC (Black and People of Color) and migrant artists that seek to transform the contexts and spaces they occupy. These interventions seek to address colonialism and racism from within the centers of hegemonic Eurocentric knowledge. With contributions by: Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński, Gerardo Montes de Oca, Imayna Caceres, Sunanda Mesquita, Verena Melgarejo Weinandt, Amoako Boafo, Stephanie Misa, Sandra Monterroso, Tatiana Nascimento, Ezgi Erol, Firas Shehadeh, Hansel Sato, Sophie Utikal, Rini Mitra, Mariel Rodríguez, Naomi Rincón Gallardo, Cana Bilir-Meier, Pêdra Costa, and Eduardo Triviño Cely.

142 pages softcover with flaps 14,8 × 21 cm ISBN 978-3-902902-50-4 € 10,00 Order it here for 10€: http://zaglossus.eu/publikationen/alle/anticolonial-fantasies

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The project “Anti*Colonial Fantasies / Decolonial Strategies” brings together artists from different diasporas, students and lecturers of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, who occupy themselves with a critique of the consequences of colonialism (with a special focus on Academia) and the imagination and possibility of alternative realities. Not a frequently given opportunity, this project  allows for connecting and empowering the black and people of color community in Vienna.

Curated by Imayna Caceres, Sunanda Mesquita, and Sophie Utikal, the project includes an exhibition as well as a writing workshop and talks by decolonial thinkers. The exhibition at Friday EXIT displays the works of Cana Bilir-Meier, Belinda Kazeem-Kaminski, Amoako Boafo, Sandra Monterroso, Imayna Caceres, Gerardo Montes de Oca, Rini Mitra, Ezgi Erol, Hansel Sato, Sunanda Mesquita, Verena Melgarejo-Weinandt, Naomi Rincon, Firas Shehadeh, Pedrâ Costa & Eduardo Triviño Cely, Stephanie Misa, Mariel Rodriguez, Tatiana Nascimento Dos Santos and Sophie Utikal. 

Working on various mediums – performances, video, installation, painting, photographs, drawing, and writing – as well as participatory formats, the artists expose the ways in which coloniality persists today and their fantasies to break from it. Raising questions of race, sexuality, gender, spirituality, space, and time, these artists engage from the site of the bodies, and depart from diverse forms of resistance, social critique and knowledge production. With a writing workshop by Tatiana Nascimento Dos Santos (Fiction writing & storytelling by/for Black and people of color), a talk by Daniela Ortiz (Culture of Coloniality), a seminar at VBKÖ by Yuderkys Espinosa (Decolonial Feminism), and a workshop with the trans south asian performance art duo Darkmatter, the project is both a site of creative decolonial strategies and a component of critical dialogues and debates. 

Opening on the 20th of May (Friday EXIT, Döblergasse 2 /16 EG 1070) with two different performances, the program of the project is full of different events and talks that go until the 28th of May, where the project finalizes with a performance by Pedra Costa & Eduardo Triviño, a talk by Daniela Ortiz on the Culture of Coloniality and a final coming together afterparty.

PROGRAMM

* FR 20.05

18:30 Opening: Drinks & Musik & Performances

ABYSTOMA's formaldehyde trip by Naomi Rincon Gallardo 

ses alma rehberi by Cana Bilir-Meier

* SO 22.05

13:00  reth/inking futures: fiction writing & storytelling by/for Black und people of color, Workshop by Tatiana Nascimento Dos Santos

* MO 23.05

18:30 ANTI*COLONIAL FANTASIES Artists & Curators talk

* TU 24.05

18:00 Decolonial Feminism by Yuderkys Espinoza (Bogotá, Kolumbien),  VBKÖ 

* THU 26.05

 the revolution will not have a bibliography: student activism in the corporate university Workshop by Darkmatter (New York City, USA)

* SA 28.05

18:00 The Culture of Coloniality by Daniela Ortiz (Barcelona, Spanien)

This initiative is funded by ÖH Uni Wien & ÖH Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien & Arbeitskreis für Gleichbehandlung Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien

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Open Call for the exhibition “Anti*colonial Fantasies and decolonial strategies of empowerment”

We are calling for submissions for those interested in becoming part of the group exhibition, as well as for organizing parallel events. Please send us a portfolio of your works, your artist statement and a short description of what you would like to show or organise.

Welcome are proposals in any medium, from painting, video, installations, photography, performances, collaborative interactive formats such as curating film nights, performances, artists talks, etc.

The exhibition project is interested in addressing:

* The sequels of colonialism in Austria and how it has continues to shape our subjectivities by inhabiting an intersection of oppressed identities and/or by dealing with the fragmentation that coming from histories of migrations means, and how this impacts our lives on a daily basis.

* The empowerment via the occupation of a specific position at the borders, as people of color dealing with structural oppression and setting the frames towards emancipation. Addressing material conditions and relations of power. Disparities in opportunity, and instances of discrimination based on race: its interwovenness with the ‘imperialist white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy’.

* Othering and exoticisation, alienation from personhood as an ontological process with material consequences.

* The role of the educative institution in the colonial project and the continuity of this role nowadays in Vienna.

* A discussion that starts at the body, from the flesh, reclaiming other spiritual dimensions, emotions, and rituals and collective performances.

We are particularly interested in the submissions of Artists of Colour* and Black Artists from the Academy of Fine Artists that would like to be part of our exhibition at Friday Exit during the dates: 20-28 May

Budget: dependant on the outcome of our funding requests

Deadline: receiving applications from now until 10 March.

Please send your application to: anticolonialfantasies@gmail.com

We are looking forward to hearing from you,

Imayna Caceres

Sunanda Mesquita

Sophie Utikal

and Stephanie Misa (contributor)

*We use the term Artists of Colour and Black Artists as a political self-definition, to unite artists in their experiences of coming from backgrounds outside Europe- the so-called ‘minorities’ and all those who have ancestry, connections or affiliations „elsewhere“, and end up often labelled as „Others“ and excluded from the predominantly white contemporary art discourse.