Daniela Ortiz, (anti)colonial monuments
(Anti)colonial monuments Talk by Daniela Ortiz, resident at KADIST, in discussion with Katia Schneller and Simone Frangi, coordinators of the research platform “Pratiques d’hospitalité” (ÉSAD – Grenoble). The monuments that honor characters and historical moments of colonial violence are not only vestiges of the past that remain inert in the public space, colonial monuments are also a tool to maintain historical narratives that reinforce the current institutional and structural racism. During the talk, Daniela Ortiz will discuss various cases of colonial monuments, their social and historical context, their political utility, as well as the moments when these monuments have been attacked, demolished or removed, understanding in a critical way these processes and questioning how (anti)colonial history can be narrated in the public space. This event is organized in the frame of the research project “You don’t need to be a voice for the voiceless, just pass the mic” led by the research platform “Pratiques d’hospitalité” at ÉSAD – Grenoble and funded by the Ministère de la Culture, in partnership with KADIST. Daniela Ortiz is the second artist invited for a commission as part of KADIST’s three-year project “Not Fully Human, Not Human at All”, curated by Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez. Culture and Coloniality in the French context This talk will be followed by a second event on Thursday January 10, 2019 at KADIST Art Foundation, during which Daniela Ortiz and the students of ÉSAD Grenoble ( Binta Diaw, Miru Kim, Lena Longefay, Fanny Souade Sow, Edgar Tom Stockton, Yanireth Jimenez Torres, Laura Villena, Anaëlle Bohbot ) will present the project they elaborated in the framework of the research platform “Pratiques d’hospitalité” on coloniality, institutional racism, extractivism and cultural appropriation in the French context, articulated around the case study of the monuments dedicated to Jean-François Champollion. About the participants: Through her work, Daniela Ortiz (born in Cusco, Peru in 1985, lives and works in Barcelona) aims to generate visual narratives in which the concepts of nationality, racialization, social class and gender are explored in order to critically understand structures of colonial, patriarchal and capitalist power. Her recent projects and research deal with the European migratory control system, its links to colonialism and the legal structure created by European institutions in order to inflict violence towards racialized and migrant communities. She has also developed projects about the Peruvian upper class and its exploitative relationship with domestic workers. Recently her artistic practice has turned back into visual and manual work, developing art pieces in ceramic, collage and in formats such as children books in order to take distance from Eurocentric conceptual art aesthetics. Together with her artistic practice she is mother of a 1 year old, gives talks, workshops, does investigations and participates in discussions on Europe’s migratory control system and its ties to coloniality in different contexts. Daniela Ortiz has exhibited at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, 2016; Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, 2016; MACBA, Barcelona, 2015; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 2015; Weltmuseum, Vienna, 2015; Jeu de Paume, Paris, 2014; MUAC, Mexico, 2014; Reina Sofía Museum, Madrid, 2014 and 80M2, Lima, 2012 among others. She has participated in group exhibitions in Spain, France, the United States, Peru, Sweden, Austria, Romania and the Czech Republic. She has received the Guasch Coranty grant from the University of Barcelona (2011) for her project Maids Rooms , a grant by CIFO (2012) for the project Distinction and the BCN production grant for her project NN15.518 that she made in collaboration with Xose Quiroga. Based on the interpolations of artistic, curatorial, and theoretical practices, the research platform “Pratiques d’hospitalité” (Practices of Hospitality), hosted at the ÉSAD – Grenoble, examines the notion of hospitality as a critical tool allowing to question, in a post-national and non-Eurocentric perspective, the subjectivation processes linked to territoriality, and from there, rethink the role of sexuality, gender, ethnicity and social class within the global phenomena of power and inequality. Taking the elaboration of post-capitalist ethics as an epistemic horizon, “Pratiques d’hospitalité” seeks to produce a thinking adapted to the material conditions of contemporary geopolitical existence.