Our La Pocha Nostra call for participants in our work group for the Hemi Encuentro in Montreal is out. Please see below: CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS La Pocha Nostra one-week work group HEMI 2014 A new pan-Indigenous (anti) manifesto for the Americas La Pocha Nostra invites artists, theorists and writers attending the next Encuentro in Montreal who identify themselves as indigenous and/or are working/researching on indigenous politics and performance in the Americas to help us co-write and embody a new performance “anti-manifesto” that reflects the aspirations and tribulations of artists in the Americas. The working group will meet during the Encuentro from the 21st to the 27th of June from 1 PM to 5 PM. An outdoor performance intervention is programmed for the 27th in the afternoon. In this project, 16 artists and theorists, selected by La Pocha Nostra and the HEMI, will have the opportunity to interrogate, resist, and contend with cultural sensitivities and norms, in order to develop a text in preparation to the Encuentro as well as performative actions connected to the artists’ contemporary political condition in the continent. This one-week work group will lead to both the collective completion of a new art manifesto for the Americas, and a live art performance intervention using an innovative new performance format generated by the work group. The work group welcomes the following languages: Spanish, English, Portuguese, French and Indigenous languages, however, English will be the intersecting language. Propelled by the urgency of contemporary autonomous movements such as Idle No More in Canada, the Zapatistas and the Coordinadora de los 400 pueblos, in México, the ongoing American Indian Movement in the U.S., or Suma Kaway in Ecuador, we wish to highlight the artistic and political challenges of these and other contexts and the need to respond. There is much more that can potentially emerge from a non-traditional manifesto concerning indigenous and First Nations movements, including but not limited to: land and body sovereignty, poverty and ecological erosion, invisibility, exploitation, healthcare, knowledge, mass media and violence. We also hope this text reveals the connections between current indigenous movements and neo-anarchist youth movements from the indignados and anonymous to the information hacking. We are fully aware of the dangers of manifestos and want to avoid any hetero-normative and binary absolutist claims or pretensions. We want to emphasize the potential for artists to respond, and to respond together, across geographies and in a local context. In order to decolonize *the manifesto,* we invite you to attempt the impossible: How can we first create and then embody a poly-vocal ongoing conversation that acknowledges the need for inclusion without dilettantism, while also avoiding self-righteousness, theoretical incomprehension, hipster racism, new age disconnection, or corny neologisms? APPLY USING THE LINK BELOW! https://docs.google/forms/d/1yCBHk2yhKwjO_C6smh17diD3YybpJZ4OrgtwEMNGybc/viewform
Posted on: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 20:06:05 +0000
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