The LASTESIS Collective (Chile) is doing a ‘shared’ residency at MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM as well as KVS and is collaborating with artists Jennifer Baez Matos & Kamal Hedayat (Belgium) and Lucila Guichon (Berlin). Together they zoom in on the theme of subalternity (a state of subordination brought about by colonization or other forms of economic, social, racial, linguistic and/or cultural domination, Spivak; Bidaseca), in dialogue with the diaspora.
Some of the questions they raise include: how can we understand border politics both from within the territory and from the outside?
What intersections are there between these policies with the stories of forced and unforced migration and exile, of women and dissidents (LGBTQIA+) of the first, second, third … generation. How does the organization of a city, urban design, relate to good living conditions for migrants in dialogue with subalternity, when we look at the concept in relation to a colonization context. The LASTESIS collective proposes a crossover between colonial history, both from the point of view of colonizing and colonized land, and the extractive logic that continues today in different territories.
Nov. 18, they launched an open call for the International Day to Combat Violence Against Women.
The letters that came in response to this call, read aloud (with the participation of other women/queers) and videotaped for the Beursschouwburg in Brussels were processed into a show moment on November 26 at KVS (ihkv Proximamente Festival). The result was a visual performance-speech with video projections of the action and reading from the letters.
