SUBALTERNAS: MESTIZO ARTS PLATFORM was pleased to do a special collaboration with KVS, as part of their festival PROXIMAMENTE. The Chilean LASTESIS Collective from Valparaiso went into residency with artists Maryam K. Hedayat, Lucila Guichón and Jennifer Baez Matos, all part of MAP’s network. For 10 days, they worked together on the theme of subalternity (Spivak; Bidaseca) in dialogue with the diaspora.
Some of the questions they raised: 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? A crossover between colonial history, both from the point of view of the colonizing and colonized country, and the extractivist logic perpetuated to this day in different territories.
