Maroon Anti-Futurism

Our life cycles are not linear, our future exists without time. It is a dream, uncolonized.
Indigenous Anti-Futurist Manifesto 

As a people who have been stripped of our history, language, identity, and pride, we attempt again and again to find what we have lost by digging into our cultural roots imaginatively and making art out of our findings.
Gloria Anzaldúa

How to imagine the world without Europe? That was the question we put in 2019 to a group of racialised and mixed-race artists from Abya Yala committed to decolonisation processes. The idea was to recreate the future that could have been, had Europe not intervened, and showcase other societal models that have refused to be wiped out and which protect the memory that another way is possible. Through different formats, this exhibition seeks to appeal to the sensibilities and world orders that challenge and resist the future model proposed by the Western World. This exercise in speculative fiction and critical fabulation falls back on the anti-futurism as an undominated concept of time, and asks us to retrace our steps in an exercise of memory and reinvention of space and time. If the today we live in is the future that modernity dreamed of, the people who have suffered its onslaught and its ideology remind us that “the future is gone”; the future is behind us and not ahead.

The exhibition portrays marronage as a flight and escape from the materialistic plantation-world of the hierarchical European civilisational matrix of labour, populations and bodies organised under the aegis of racial capitalism and its thirst to accumulate.

Yuderkys Espinosa and Katia Sepúlveda
Curanderas

Inauguration:
Inaugural activities: 11.10.2023 at 18h.
Opening - Healing Party: 12.10.2023 at 19h.

Artists / exhibited work at Santa Mònica:
Pieza colectiva / Anti-Futurismo Cimarrón. Manifiesto
Yoel Díaz Vasquez / Previsión: fabulaciones para una sanación descolonial
Johanné Gómez / Vévê
Nitzayra Leonor / Cuerpos densos como agua en calma!
Evel Romain / Guédés
Yelaine Rodríguez / Babalú-Ayé y La Negra del Hospital

Artists / exhibited work at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge:
Collective Piece / Anti-Futurismo Cimarrón. Manifiesto
Colectivo Ayllu / Existió un tiempo antes de que tuviéramos cuerpo
Imayna Caceres / Se juntan, viven, cooperan, comen, ríen, bailan, se abrazan, preconizan, sueñan
Marcela Huitraiqueo / Meli pewma (Cuatro sueños)
Verena Melgarejo / Transformación (Serie de Pocahunter)
Daniela Ortiz / Paisaje
Naomí Rincón Gallardo / Eclipse
Katia Sepúlveda / Ànu. Parte I

Exhibition's activities:

Inaugural activities: 11.10.23
11.10 / 18:00 h: Anti-Futurismo Cimarrón. Celebrar la reexistencia, roundtable with the curanderas and the artists (lecture room, Santa Mònica)
11.10 / 20:00 h: Performances (exhibition spaces, Santa Mònica)
11.10 / 20:30 h: Healing ritual (outside Santa Mònica and Columbus Monument) and street intervention (La Rambla and surroundings)

Opening - Healing Party: 12.10.23
12.10 / 19:00 h: Toast at Santa Mònica and La Virreina
12.10 / 21:00 h: Concert by Grupo Katanga (Caribe colombiano) + Dj Maldita Vaina (República Dominicana) (at L’Occulta)

14.10 / 12:00h: Guided visit to both places by the curanderes (starting point: La Virreina). Approximate duration: 1h 15'.

15.10 / 18:00 h: kotz´ijan/Florecer, performance de Colectivo Ajchowen (exterior del Santa Mònica)

27.10 / 19:30 h: kotz´ijan/Florecer, performance de Colectivo Ajchowen (exterior del Santa Mònica)

Curanderas:
Yuderkys Espinosa
Katia Sepúlveda

Artists:
Colectivo Ajchowen
Colectivo Ayllu
Imayna Cáceres
Yoel Díaz Vasquez
Johanné Gómez Terrero
Marcela Huitraiqueo
Grupo Katanga
Nitzayra Leonor
Dj Maldita Vaina
Verena Melgarejo
Daniela Ortiz
Naomi Rincón Gallardo
Yelaine Rodríguez
Evel Romain
Katia Sepúlveda 

Exhibition coproduced by Santa Mònica and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge

Collaborators:
Ateneu del Raval
Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies (CAPAS) de la Universidad de Heidelberg
Confabulaciones Nómades
Espai10
Instituto Caribeño de Pensamiento e Investigación Descolonial del Grupo Latinoamericano de Estudios, Formación y Acción Feminista (GLEFAS)
Periferia Cimarronas
La Caníbal
Universitat de Barcelona

Acknowledgements:
Daniela Ortiz
María Teresa Veras-Rojas
Marissa Lobo
Lia Castillo Espinosa
Úrsula Santa Cruz Castillo
Ce
Pluriversidad nómada

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