I cannot decolonize my body

Thursday, September 26, 2024 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm CET/GMT+1 

W15

For this talk, Dr. Tiara Roxanne will introduce their work on the decolonial gesture, as an embodied action toward decolonization. We will formulate understandings of Roxanne’s work in AI ethics, de/anticolonialism, and Indigenous Feminist theory, addressing how artistic praxis and methodologies engage the decolonial gesture. We might ask: how do we encounter embodied experiences in digital territory, knowledge-making, and cosmological weaving when the body is already a site of border control, quantum-making, and ritual? What are potential embodied encounters and decolonial gestures that aim to dissolve the anaesthetics of colonization off and online?

This event is a collaboration between Clio Nicastro’s LT168 Theories of the Body and Agata Lisiak’s PT160 Transnational Feminism Is for Everybody, and it is funded by the Experimental Humanities Collaborative Network.

Dr. Tiara Roxanne is a Purhépecha Mestiza scholar and artist based in Berlin. Dr. Roxanne’s work is dedicated to rethinking the ethics of AI through an anti-colonial and cyberfeminist lens. As a performance artist and practitioner, they work between the digital and the material using textile. Tiara has presented at Images Festival (Toronto), Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center (NY), Trinity Square Video (Toronto), European Media Art Festival (Osnabrück), among others.

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