Sanación racial a través de las prácticas artísticas

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This presentation is based on a project, Cultures of Antiracism in Latin America, which explored the role of affect in antiracist practice. I look at two artistic practices that mobilize bodily affect through performance, seeking to heal the traumas of racialized injustice, from historical disadvantage and banal everyday racism to traumatic murder and its repercussions on communities. The first is the Afro-Colombian contemporary dance company Sanfoka Danzafro. Through dance, the company’s director, Rafael Palacios, seeks to make black people, more than seen, also heard in the art world where blackness has been stereotypically represented. Dance opens up ways to mobilize the body and its affective intensities collectively, while addressing the present and the future and also interacting with the past, to express and manage racial trauma. The second example is the artist Margarita Ariza, whose artistic interventions commonly use her own body as a performative catalyst to mobilize emotions with great affective intensity as a way of addressing racial injustice and trauma. I focus on an intervention she made in the community of Siloé, Cali, where several people had been killed in police violence aimed at repressing social protests in the city in May 2021. My aim is to explore the implications for antiracist practice of these different modes of mobilizing affect – e.g. more collective versus more individual; less and more based on orality.

Period	14 Jun 2024
Event title	Latin American Studies Association Conference 2024
Event type	Conference
Location	Bogota, ColombiaShow on map
Degree of Recognition	International