Participation in the event «Lecture Decolonizing third space between East and West»

On July 4, Karina Bidaseca, co-coordinator of the CLACSO Working Group Epistemologies of the South, was part of the Conference «Lecture Decolonizing third space between East and West» held at the University of Freiburg.

During this meeting, Bidaseca introduced the notion of 'Third Space,' which she conceives as a meeting place for artists situated in the different contexts of enunciation commonly understood as the Global South. Furthermore, the activity was based on synecdoche as a means of reclaiming a narrative memory for the Palestinian, Vietnamese, and Afro-Indigenous experiences that the researcher recognizes as distinct forms of expression of the political subject. 

The talk was organized around a captivating question: if the skin of recolonized and feminized bodies is written by the scripts of global fundamentalisms (religious, political, cultural, economic), how do artists who produce works from the Global South—Grada Kilomba (Portugal), Ana Mendieta (Cuba), Sigalit Landau (Israel), Emily Jacir (Palestine)—write (and contest) according to the processes of occupation/colonization/decolonization of their bodies? How are these processes based on a re-semanticization of contemporary signs of feminist agency?