Aurora Vergara, Nidia Góngora, Francia Márquez, Mary Grueso (Colombia), and Amber Henry (United States)
This panel will reflect on how the voices of black, Afro-Colombian, palenquera, and raizal women are represented in the field of arts, politics, community processes, and academia. Participants will talk about the production of images, figures, symbols, and narratives that make it possible to generate knowledge about their past, present, and the production of memory for their future. In terms of methodology, a metaphor of constellations of diasporic routes will be used, built between the roads to the sea and the inter-Andean valleys to weave territories of emancipation and dignity. The goal is to close the activity with analytical codes for institutional, political, and community advocacy.
Friday, August 10 - 9 a.m.
Coliseo El Pueblo, Cali.
Free admission
This performance conference deals with the project carried out by the Argentinian Etcétera collective regarding the neo-extractivist model and its implications for the environment, social health, and human rights. Using projections of images and videos, with humor and satire, this activity invites the audience to learn and provide knowledge about the extractivist mechanism and its consequences. Neo-extractivism is a model of economic development based on looting and appropriation, which was adopted by some South American Governments at the beginning of the 21st century. Its history dates back to the so-called conventional extractivism, a way of accumulating that began more than 500 years ago after the European conquest and colonization of American, African, and Asian territories.
Mobile Academy Berlin (MAB) with Hannah Hurtzig (Germany) and Karin Harasser (Austria), Claudia Mosquera, and Maria Victoria Uribe (Colombia)
“You cannot talk about what you cannot see. You must definitely talk about what you cannot know. Narrating, making, and hallucinating in the appropriate ambiguity: that is the way to maintain relations with things and beings that are not present”: Mobile Academy Berlin (MAB).
Since 2010, MAB artists and theoreticians have worked on issues related to life sciences and death. This action will weave heterogeneous threads to talk about the future of the dead in the political discourse, history, and science. Maria Victoria Uribe joins in the conversation with her research on images of the dead, while Claudia Mosquera will do the same with her work on the inheritance of slavery in Afro-Colombian culture. Together, they will wonder whether mourning can be considered a way to open the past to the future without forgetting its violent effects on the present. Karin Harasser and Hannah Hurtzig have explored memory relations in Colombia since 2015. In Cali, they will also present the first chapters of “A Chronicle of Some Future Events,” an ongoing project for long-term film viewing.
Saturday, August 11 - 11 a.m.
La Tertulia Museum, Collection Building, second floor, Cali.
Free admission
The works of the Yuyachkani theater group are often the result of crisis, a state that is almost permanent for a collective that since its inception, in 1971, has understood theater as a way to dialogue with their own country and time. "Untitled - Mixed Technique" (Sin título- técnica mixta) (2014) is built within the framework of the public hearings of the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation, which is in charge for establishing responsibilities for political violence and human rights violations in Peru, between May 1980 and November 2000. This work suggests setting a memory site where unclassified information is piled up, and in which actors and viewers intervene in the space of action. Rubio will share the process of creation of this piece by expanding on his writing, theatricals, corporealities, scenic behavior, production, among other issues.
Saturday, August 11 - 3 p.m.
Cinemateca La Tertulia, Cali.
Free admission
Lucrecia Martel (Argentina) and Víctor González Urrutia (Colombia)
A dialogue between two seemingly different paths: that of Lucrecia Martel, endorsed by the worldwide circuit of auteur cinema, and that of Víctor González, devoted to a type of audiovisual practice that connects him with increasing strength to his territory.
Sunday, August 12 - 11 a.m.
Cinemateca La Tertulia, Cali.
Free admission
Alabaos Project: We will meet there, without a shadow and without a face
Adriana Ciudad (Peru-Germany) in collaboration with Nidia Góngora and C.S. Prince (Colombia)
An interdisciplinary project that reflects on the mystery of death and the healing power of the Alabaos performed by the Afro-Colombian singers of Timbiquí, Cauca.
Sunday, August 12 - 3 p.m.
La Tertulia Museum, underground room, Cali.
Free admission
