Un dialogue intergénérationnel lumineux entre la commissaire Camila Marambio et l'artiste Cecilia Vicuña, autour des questions de métissage, de désastre écologique, d'érotisme et de décolonisation dans un argot multilingue subversif et irrévérencieux.
In this brilliant intergenerational dialogue curator Camila Marambio and Cecilia Vicuña, one of the most intriguing Indoamerican artists of our times, converse about mestizaje/miscenegation, ecological disaster, eroticism and decolonization in their multilingual, subversive and irreverent humorous slang.
The result is a unique book that presents a conversation that is both poetic and critical. The particular dialogue presented in the book crosses over from Spanish to English, from poetry to academic argumentation, and from art to science. It proposes a necessary method for de-colonial liberation, which reveals the transformative power of art in search of "an ecology of the soul, the resplendence of our connectivity to each other and the cosmos."
Camila Marambio asks: So, the question is how can we revert this process of appropriation and corruption of indigenous knowledge so that the renewed interest be a liberating force and not another form of masquerade colonization?
Cecilia Vicuña answers: We are the corrupted code, we have embodied it, and we reproduce it unwillingly. How else to understand our indifference to self-destructiveness? Only through "decolonizing ourselves," seeing our own trampas, pitfalls, can we begin to approach a true change.
« The true performance is that of our species on Earth: the way we cause suffering to others, the way we warm the atmosphere or cause other species to disappear.
When we began this book-conversation in 2015, we shared a practice of the transformative power of performance, or pre-formance, dreaming of ways to extend it. Today, the #MeToo movement, #BlackLivesMatter, the feminist rallies around the world on #March 8 - 2019 and other mobilizations for refugees and ecological justice have changed the meaning of past and future performance, unleashing the potential of a quantum change in collective consciousness.
May this rising energy be empowered, and may our words serve IT. »
Camila Marambio (née en 1979) est commissaire d'exposition indépendante, fondatrice et directrice du programme de recherche écologique nomade Ensayos qui réunit depuis 2011 des artistes, des scientifiques, des avocats, des autochtones et d'autres personnes afin de favoriser l'émergence de formes collectives d'éthique bio-culturelle.
Cecilia Vicuña (née en 1948 à Santiago de Chile, vit et travaille au Chili et à New York) est une poète, artiste, réalisatrice et activiste. Son travail aborde les urgences du monde moderne, et en particulier la destruction
écologique, les droits de l'homme et l'homogénéisation culturelle. Chilienne, elle est en exil depuis le début des années 1970, après le coup militaire contre le président élu Salvador Allende.
Cecilia Vicuña est lauréate du Lion d'or de la 59e édition de la Biennale de Venise, récompensant l'ensemble de sa carrière.
