Looking at visual arts organisations (VAOs) from a curatorial perspective, their institutional practices of knowledge production between the realms of the local and the global stand out. Focusing on three of the Triangle Network's partner organisations – HANGAR in Lisbon, Gasworks in London and 32º East in Kampala – three means of knowledge production in VAOs are defined and elaborated on: mediation, representation, and conviviality. The study highlights the existence of various knowledge(s) and insists on their importance.
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Interested in the power of stories, images and imagination in decolonising processes, this essay examines rest as an embodied, political practice of resistance. By means of two long term artistic projects – The Nap Ministry (2016-ongoing) by Tricia Hersey and Oneiric Propaedeutic (2015-2017) by Daniel Godínez Nivón – the important role of self-care as a self-preserving strategy for black and brown bodies within a white hegemonic, and racist capitalistic system is emphasised. Through the in-depth analysis of the projects, resting and dreaming are framed as meaning-making practices through which a subjective assessment of reality can be achieved. Silence, in both cases the aesthetic manifestation of rest, is presented as a space for personal learning and positioning through the formulation of decolonial narratives.
The essay is published in Cultures of Silence. The Power of Untold Narratives (2023) edited by Luísa Santos and published by Routledge.
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