Ana Pato to take VB Essay to Coimbra
The International Colloquium on Epistemologies of the South is hosted by the project ALICE - Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences, directed by sociologist Boaventura de Sousa Santos. The event is designed to develop new theoretical and political paradigms for social change, rethink and renew social-scientific knowledge.
Ana Pato, former Videobrasil executive producer, has been invited to present her book Expanded literature: archive and quotation in the work of Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, in which she explores how the artist employs archival practices like quotation and referencing to compose an oeuvre that approximates a new form of literature no longer circumscribed to the word, but multidimensional. The publication also features texts by Videobrasil general manager Solange Farkas (presentation) and curator Lisette Lagnado (introduction), graphic design by Daniel Trench and editing by Teté Martinho.
The ALICE project believes social, political and institutional change can vastly benefit innovation in countries and areas within the Global South. It is therefore an ambitious wager that assumes openness to mutual knowledge, intercultural understanding, the search for political and ideological commonalities, respecting identity and celebrating diversity. Established in July 2011, the project counts on the institutional partnership of the Centre for Social Studies (CES), a laboratory affiliated with the University of Coimbra.
As part of the project ALICE - Strange Mirrors, Unsuspected Lessons: Leading Europe to a new way of sharing the world experiences, this colloquium proposes a challenge to its participants: if the understanding of the world is much broader than the Western comprehension of the world, then the possibilities for social emancipation may be other than those legitimized by the Western canon.
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