Image taken from the text “Underground Blossomings: Serpentine thinking with other beings” (2020) © Imayna Caceres
Knowing aesthetics and vital knowledges that center symbiotic life in between worlds.
Guest lecture by Imayna Caceres
Knowing aesthetics and vital knowledges that centre symbiotic life in between worlds.
(Surviving progress, development, and defying destructive accumulation, exploitation, supremacy and other crisis conducing systems)
About the lecture
Students said:
Two quotes I liked from the reading beforehand: From the text “Thinking through Art, Drawing and Performance - Ontological Conflicts that are at the Core of Mining Struggles”
“[...] knowledge as layers of learnings, erasures and reconstructions. A layered
sedimentation of experience that has been passed down from the earliest forms of
Life.”
and
“[...] I come from a history that does not begin with writing as a way of creating and
achieving knowledge but with the language of other natures-cultures, of colours, of
drawing, murals, khipus, knotting, textile weaving, ceramics, stonework and more.”
At first while reading, I was asking myself “Who and what are the (finished) drawings for?”,
but after a while I realized that was the wrong question. It’s what comes up through drawing
that matters - using drawing as a tool for introspection, bringing to light the unconscious knowledge.
“Their text and the manner in which they discuss the process of gathering ancestral knowledge and using it in art highlight our potential ignorance about our own cultural heritage. I believe it's crucial to stress that knowledge isn't solely confined to academic realms; there exist various alternative pathways for its creation.”
About the artist
Imayna Caceres (Lima Callao : Vienna). Artist and researcher whose work expands through collaboratively research with local ecosystems and in response to spiritual-political concerns. Their work takes shape through feeling-thinking with drawing, painting, ceramic, sound, video, offerings, celebratory practices in public space. They resonate with forms of knowledge that contribute to regenerative makings of the communal and that question crisis conducive systems of accumulation. Graduated in Sociology and in Communication Sciences, they are MA in Fine Arts and Cultural Studies, and are currently a candidate for the Doctorate in Philosophy at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien. Part of the collectives @femblocodescolonial and @antikoloniale_interventionen, they live and work near the margins of the Donau river in Vienna | @imaynacaceres.
Link to “Underground Blossomings: Serpentine thinking with other beings”
(Surviving progress, development, and defying destructive accumulation, exploitation, supremacy and other crisis conducing systems)
About the lecture
Students said:
Two quotes I liked from the reading beforehand: From the text “Thinking through Art, Drawing and Performance - Ontological Conflicts that are at the Core of Mining Struggles”
“[...] knowledge as layers of learnings, erasures and reconstructions. A layered
sedimentation of experience that has been passed down from the earliest forms of
Life.”
and
“[...] I come from a history that does not begin with writing as a way of creating and
achieving knowledge but with the language of other natures-cultures, of colours, of
drawing, murals, khipus, knotting, textile weaving, ceramics, stonework and more.”
At first while reading, I was asking myself “Who and what are the (finished) drawings for?”,
but after a while I realized that was the wrong question. It’s what comes up through drawing
that matters - using drawing as a tool for introspection, bringing to light the unconscious knowledge.
“Their text and the manner in which they discuss the process of gathering ancestral knowledge and using it in art highlight our potential ignorance about our own cultural heritage. I believe it's crucial to stress that knowledge isn't solely confined to academic realms; there exist various alternative pathways for its creation.”
About the artist
Imayna Caceres (Lima Callao : Vienna). Artist and researcher whose work expands through collaboratively research with local ecosystems and in response to spiritual-political concerns. Their work takes shape through feeling-thinking with drawing, painting, ceramic, sound, video, offerings, celebratory practices in public space. They resonate with forms of knowledge that contribute to regenerative makings of the communal and that question crisis conducive systems of accumulation. Graduated in Sociology and in Communication Sciences, they are MA in Fine Arts and Cultural Studies, and are currently a candidate for the Doctorate in Philosophy at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien. Part of the collectives @femblocodescolonial and @antikoloniale_interventionen, they live and work near the margins of the Donau river in Vienna | @imaynacaceres.
Link to “Underground Blossomings: Serpentine thinking with other beings”
Knowing aesthetics and vital knowledges that center symbiotic life in between worlds.
October 25, 2023, 9:30h
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Students
- Rimon Alyagon Darr (Participant)
- Anna Buchner (Participant)
- Rebeka Csombordi (Participant)
- Stefan Gorka (Participant)
- Theresa Hajek (Participant)
- Markela Koniordou (Participant)
- Dejan Markovic (Participant and photos)
- Rebecca Lucia Martínková (Participant)
- Leo Olson-Ury (Participant)
- Daniela Inés Peláez Robles (Participant)
- Carolina Páez Vélez (Participant)
- Flora Safar (Participant)
- Dunia Sahir (Participant)
- Xavi Sosa (Participant)