Open Field

conversations about decolonizing practices and discourses with Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui

Abstract

The thought and lively aesthetic work of Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui point out the creative strength of collective action as a mode of experiencing temporality and territoriality. This text is the transcription of a dialogue that took place in motion, on the occasion of NIDO - Encontro Internacional de Artes Vivas, held in December 2022 in the city of Rivera (Uruguay). From a place of affectivity, we discussed celebrations, humor, monoculture, transvestilities, land rights, the university, the Aymara worldview, the struggles of the Mapuche people, the crafting of kites, etc. The subtlety of the practices shared in our exchanges around the demands of Abya Yala presents us with ways of conceiving territorialization and the tempography of our existences. The dialogue with Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui reveals to us that perhaps our sudaca poetics are not only dictated by economies of representation in culture, but also take shape through sociologies of images that destabilize the project of colonial subjectivity.