621
Art, Resistance, Otherness, Agency
Abstract Submissions Closed
RC51 Sociocybernetics (host committee)
Language: Spanish and English
Session Type: Oral
Art and literature have been a vehicle of cultural and political resistance since the very beginning of the twentieth century in Latin America, the Carribeans, continent Africa, several countries of continent Asia, and communities of domestic aliens within imperialistic territories. Artists have responded to the social, cultural, economic and psychological traumas caused by colonialism, imperialism, and neoliberalism, by making visible, resisting, and deconstructing power mechanisms and strategies of domination.
For this session of RC51 in Porto Alegre 2020, we call for papers, creative writing, workshops, artistic interventions, performative lectures, hybrid interdisciplinary research presentations from the arts, written and design field with a focus on the notion of the Other and Otherness. The Other is here a broad conceptual container for creative writing, writing on art, art projects and researches spanning from post-colonial theory and aesthetics, cultural studies and decolonial theory, cooperatives, contemporary alternative structures of collectivities and social economies, to disabilities, trans, and post-humanism, or radical pedagogies.
We are looking for written and artistic contributions able of reconsidering the position of individuals and communities within the systems of oppression or/and liberation in which they operate, highlighting their agency, their relationship with their environments, and the processes they activate. We are also looking for those contributions to be constructed within the frame of a complex thought that accounts for a second-order observation and interdisciplinary approach.