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POETICS OF ANTI-COLONIAL JOY: LUIZA PRADO
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maat workshop
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maat workshop
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23/05/2022 - 23/05/2022
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Poetics of Anti-colonial Joy
by Luiza Prado

Suffering is one of the most fundamental products of coloniality. Within a system designed to establish a hierarchy of subjectivities and to exert violent exploitation, the grip of this suffering might at times seem inescapable. Resistance to this system, however, has always flourished; even in the most difficult circumstances, those living on the margins of the colonial world have learned the skills to continuously create new, more just, and more joyful futures. In this talk, we will explore the concept of joy as a fundamental facet of the anticolonial struggle through discussions of practices from the Global South in design, art, and architecture
Interdisciplinary research program in art, architecture and design based on transformation and politics in partnership with the COW - Center for Other Worlds, Center for Research in Design and Art - Universidade Lusófona.


Luiza Prado de O. Martins is an artist, writer, and researcher whose work examines topics on fertility, reproduction, coloniality, gender, and race. Her ongoing artistic research project, A Topography of Excesses, examines encounters between humans and plants in the context of herbalist reproductive medicine, addressing these practices as expressions of radical care. Since 2019, she has broadened the scope of this research, developing a body of work that offers a critique of the racist concept of “overpopulation” in the context of the current climate crisis with the project Os Conselhos do Pluriversal: As Temporalidades Afectivas da Reprodução e a Crise Climática [The Pluriversal’s Advice: The Affective Temporalities of Reproduction and the Climate Crisis]. Prado is on the curatorial board of Transmediale 2021 and a founding member of Decolonising Design. She is currently based in Berlin, Germany.

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