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Los Artes de Si: Quilombos, Palenques, Cumbes, and Marroons

A Horizon Through the Black Arts with Maya Quilolo

Location

Performing Arts & Humanities Building : 216

Date & Time

November 15, 2023, 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

Description

The Dresher Center for the Humanities presents an event hosted by the Latin American Feminisms Faculty Working Group

Los Artes de Si: Quilombos, Palenques, Cumbes, and Marroons

Las Artes de si denotes cognitive procedures, differentiation, and spiritual cultivation by which Black people, in the context of the Americas, liberate themselves from the shackles of colonial categories through the extent of aesthetically communing with Black cultural manifestations and their epistemic and philosophical horizons. Through Las Artes de si, the production of aesthetic experiences, the Black communities of the Americas cultivated resistance, building shared territories, quilombos, cumbes, and palenques.

Speaker bio: Maya Quilolo (b. 1994) is a maroon artist and researcher. Winner at the Prince Claus Culture Responds to Climate Change Awards( 2023), her artistic practice addresses intersections between environmental justice, black corporality, visual art, anthropology, and indigenous heritage. 

Co-sponsored by the Dresher Center for the Humanities; Department of Gender, Women's + Sexuality Studies; Department of Modern Languages, Linguistics, and Intercultural Communication; Department of Geography and Environmental Systems; the Latin American Studies Minor; and the Latinx Hispanic Faculty Association.

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