A Guide for the Afflicted and Defiant
A Guide for the Afflicted and Defiant is a project that rises from affliction, from the sensations of immobility and pre-emptive failure that overburden us when facing dark times (Bertolt Brecht via Hannah Arendt). It is a project about disobedience: it gathers defiant gestures against the body鈥檚 impulse to stay in bed, change the channel, or look away from the chaos unravelling on the other side of windows. A group composed of visual artists, circus performers, dancers, journalists, designers, and civil rights organizations revisits the last two years of widespread protests in Colombia, providing a series of resources for hybrid artistic activism which unfolds in the overlapping terrain of the domestic, public, and digital spheres.
At the Art Museum, the audience is invited to immerse themselves in a counter-narrative of the country鈥檚 most recent history of violence and social unrest; a background voice underscores the exhibition to elucidate the stigmatization of protest by the country鈥檚 government and media, focusing on the subsequent need to overcome the boundaries of pure logic to grasp the possibility of social and political transformation.
Featuring Ana Mar铆a Montenegro, Rafael D铆az, Mestizo Punkyaso, Alejandro Montoya Fuentes, La Otra Danza, Tania Tapia J谩uregui, and Putamente Poderosas, this interdisciplinary three-fold project is presented in the print page, as a book; in the gallery, as an exhibition; and online. Over the course of the exhibition, collaborators will release additional resources at guiaparalosafligidos.com.
A Guide for the Afflicted and Defiant is a project that rises from affliction, from the sensations of immobility and pre-emptive failure that overburden us when facing dark times (Bertolt Brecht via Hannah Arendt). It is a project about disobedience: it gathers defiant gestures against the body鈥檚 impulse to stay in bed, change the channel, or look away from the chaos unravelling on the other side of windows. A group composed of visual artists, circus performers, dancers, journalists, designers, and civil rights organizations revisits the last two years of widespread protests in Colombia, providing a series of resources for hybrid artistic activism which unfolds in the overlapping terrain of the domestic, public, and digital spheres.
At the Art Museum, the audience is invited to immerse themselves in a counter-narrative of the country鈥檚 most recent history of violence and social unrest; a background voice underscores the exhibition to elucidate the stigmatization of protest by the country鈥檚 government and media, focusing on the subsequent need to overcome the boundaries of pure logic to grasp the possibility of social and political transformation.
Featuring Ana Mar铆a Montenegro, Rafael D铆az, Mestizo Punkyaso, Alejandro Montoya Fuentes, La Otra Danza, Tania Tapia J谩uregui, and Putamente Poderosas, this interdisciplinary three-fold project is presented in the print page, as a book; in the gallery, as an exhibition; and online. Over the course of the exhibition, collaborators will release additional resources at guiaparalosafligidos.com.
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