Macarena Gómez-Barris (Brown University) in Sydney at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Wednesday 13 December, 6.30pm
Perceiving life beyond the colonial Anthropocene: A Dialogue
Presented at the AGNSW with UNSW Art & Design and the Power Institute
In this event at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, writer and theorist Macarena Gómez-Barris will offer a short reading and then join filmmaker Juan Francisco Salazar in conversation.
Gómez-Barris will discuss what is at stake in grappling with the colonial gaze, land and environmental extraction in relation to art and media. She will speak to various examples in the Americas and Global South to invoke new ways to imagine and be with varying geographic scales and times. Following her reading, Gómez-Barris and Salazar will converse about non-extractive modes of being and seeing that support life beyond the colonial Anthropocene.
Macarena Gómez-Barris is an interdisciplinary scholar, speaker, and author who has published books and essays on environmental media, decolonial theory and praxis, queer femme, creative and embodied research methods, and what she deems as ‘antidotes to the colonial Anthropocene’. She is the author of Beyond the pink tide: art and political undercurrents in the Americas (2018), The extractive zone: social ecologies and decolonial perspectives (2017) and Where memory dwells: culture and state violence in Chile (2009).
Juan Francisco Salazar was born in Santiago, Chile, and migrated to Sydney in 1998. He is an interdisciplinary researcher, author and documentary filmmaker whose academic and creative work explores the coupled dynamics of social-ecological change and is underpinned by a collaborative ethos across the arts, science and activism. He is Professor of Communications, Media and Environment at the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University, and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2020–2024).
More information below
https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/whats-on/events/perceiving-life-beyond-the-colonial-anthropocene/