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The Power of Mourning: Decolonial Struggles and Queer Bodies
Live performances by Bartolina Xixa and Carlos Motta in collaboration with Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau and Isabel Gonzalez Toro (sound design) and a prerecorded presentation by Naomi Rincón Gallardo, moderated by Agustín Pérez Rubio
Thursday, 29.10.2020
6–8 pm
RSVP required
Glaskiste c/o ExRotaprint
Gottschedstraße 4, 13357 Berlin
In English
Free admission, limited capacity
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The Power of Mourning: Decolonial Struggles and Queer Bodies
Live performances by Bartolina Xixa and Carlos Motta in collaboration with Simon(e) Jaikiriuma Paetau and Isabel Gonzalez Toro (sound design) and a prerecorded presentation by Naomi Rincón Gallardo, moderated by Agustín Pérez Rubio
The 11th Berlin Biennale’s final gathering aims to move away from Western philosophy and cultural theory’s understandings of death and mourning. It emphasizes themes of death, mourning, and life after death from a queer perspective, using a critique of norms, questioning ontologies, epistemologies, and ethics, as well as bio and necropolitical agendas, based on the works of the artists presented in the 11th Berlin Biennale exhibition.
Taking into consideration that for Indigenous peoples death has been life’s silent companion since the start of the colonial conquest, these artistic interventions attempt to critique discourses on death and mourning associated with heteronormative models of familial bonds, chronological lifestyles, norms for intergenerational relationships, and “adequate” responses to biopolitical regimes of health and life. They delve into the cultural ties that Indigenous peoples have maintained in their understanding of mourning as a form of both cultural expression and struggle, and, in this sense, broaden the spectrum of the sexo-dissident struggle, understood as bodies that are battlegrounds and decolonial resistance beyond their mortality.
The event will be recorded on video and made available on our website afterwards.
Please note that due to the current situation, admission to the event is limited and will only be possible with a facemask. Due to the limited capacity, the event is already fully booked.
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