Speaker Series Intersectionality from the Americas | Artist talk with Colectivo Ayllu (Madrid/Barcelona) | Los vientos y las aguas nos enseñan

This event forms part of the speaker series Intersectionality from the Americas: Theories, Processes, Approaches, Practices, taking place throughout the winter semester 2024/25. Supported by the ScienceCampus and organised by Anne Brüske with Minerva Peinador, Barbara Aranda and Joanna Moszczyńska of DIMAS, this series will feature talks, a workshop and an artistic performance. Find the flyer about the speaker series here. More details about the series can be found here.

The talk will be held in Spanish with supporting materials in English.

Info-Flyer about the Colectivo Ayllu Performance and Talk

Los vientos y las aguas nos enseñan. Una conversación con Colectivo Ayllu

Colectivo Ayllu is an artistic-political collective founded by migrants, people of color, and queer and gender-sexual dissidents from former Spanish colonies. Through their work, the group critiques white supremacy and the European colonial heteronormative ideology. The Latin American artists and researchers of the collective combine anti-racist and decolonial perspectives, creating actions that merge text and artistic practice.

Their work serves as a safe space for migrant bodies and sexual dissidents who challenge and dismantle conventional codes of gender, sexuality, and race. The collective, described as a "chosen family" founded in 2017, represents a diverse array of territories and contexts from Abya Yala, the indigenous name for the Americas.

We will become familiar with them and their work through two of their members, Lucrecia Masson and Francisco Godoy Vega. Join Colectivo Ayllu for their performance on 13 February at 18:00 and for the artist talk on 14 February at 10:00, where they not only bring compelling artistic perspectives to the stage but also ignite critical discussions on racism, migration, and sexual diversity.

Abstract en español/language of the talk:
En este espacio proponemos revisar algunos materiales visuales y audiovisuales producidos por el Colectivo en los últimos años. Asimismo se abrirán una conversación y un debate a partir de la performance “¿Dónde están los mensajes secretos de nuestrxs ancestrxs?”, en la cual abordaremos cuestiones como las epistemologías no occidentales, las prácticas anticoloniales y las resistencias largas de las que provenimos.

Abstract in English:
In this space, we propose to review some of the visual and audio-visual materials that the collective has produced in recent years. We will also open a conversation and debate based on the performance 'Where are the secret messages of our ancestors?', in which questions of non-western epistemologies, anti-colonial practices and the long resistances from which we come will be addressed.