The Reinvention of the Empty Pedestal. Creating a Hybrid Artivistic Space Between Colombia and Denmark
Author
Monroy Garcia, Diana Carolina
Term
4. term
Education
Publication year
2023
Pages
86
Abstract
Between 2019 and 2021, Colombia saw large-scale social mobilizations. During this time, artistic collectives developed creative practices in marches and public gatherings as forms of active political participation. The Pos-Monumenta Festival, founded in 2020, intervenes directly in public squares. It uses media artivism—combining media art and activism—together with methods from visual, media, and performance art to create open spaces for dialogue on memory, justice, civic participation, urban space, and co-creation. The festival has grown beyond Colombia’s physical and virtual borders. The May 2023 edition, The Reinvention of the Empty Pedestal, demonstrated the potential of social media by bringing together representatives of the Misak and Muisca communities in Colombia and the Greenlandic community in Denmark for a conversation on these themes. The artistic collective Little Brother & Sister Are Watching You works in a community-based, community-oriented way. Its approach relies on careful contextualization, participants’ willingness to engage, and a mix of synchronous (live) and asynchronous (not live) communication. This thesis offers a case study of that 2023 edition. It situates this seemingly local process within a broader international field of initiatives that foreground media artivism and collaborative, community-based artistic practices, as reflected in the curatorial approaches of documenta_fifteen (Kassel, Germany, 2022) and Manifesta 14 (Prishtina, Kosovo, 2022).
Fra 2019 til 2021 oplevede Colombia omfattende sociale mobiliseringer. I denne periode udviklede kunstneriske kollektiver kreative greb i demonstrationer og fælles forsamlinger som en form for aktiv politisk deltagelse. Pos-Monumenta Festivalen blev grundlagt i 2020 for at arbejde direkte i offentlige pladser. Festivalen bruger medieartivisme – en blanding af mediekunst og aktivisme – sammen med metoder fra billedkunst, mediekunst og performance til at skabe åbne rum for dialog om emner som erindring, retfærdighed, social deltagelse, byrum og samskabelse. Festivalen har efterhånden overskredet både Colombias fysiske og virtuelle grænser. Udgaven The Reinvention of the Empty Pedestal i maj 2023 viste potentialet i at bruge sociale medier ved at samle repræsentanter for Misak- og Muisca-samfundene i Colombia og det grønlandske miljø i Danmark til en samtale om disse temaer. Det kunstneriske kollektiv Little Brother & Sister Are Watching You arbejder fællesskabsbaseret og -orienteret. Tilgangen bygger på stærk kontekstualisering, deltagernes villighed til at indgå i processen og en kombination af samtidige (live) og asynkrone (ikke-live) kommunikationsformer. Denne afhandling er et casestudie af festivaludgaven i 2023. Den placerer den tilsyneladende lokale proces i en international ramme af nutidige initiativer, der fremhæver medieartivisme samt samarbejdende og fællesskabsbaserede kunstpraksisser, som det også ses i de kuratoriske greb i documenta_fifteen (Kassel, Tyskland, 2022) og Manifesta 14 (Prishtina, Kosovo, 2022).
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