The book "Hospicing Modernity: Facing Humanity's Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism" was published in September 2021 (you can download a couple of sample chapters here). This book is an educational experiment full of dancing stories, metaphors, allegories, creative maps, and exercises that ask you to sit at the limits of our modern desires …
(The difficulties of) Truth and Reconciliation
The Canadian government has declared September 30 a federal statutory holiday (National Day of Truth and Reconciliation) to recognize the violent legacy of residential schools. Different Indigenous peoples respond differently to this initiative. Some of these differences are generational: while it could be important for residential school survivors to hear the acknowledgement of the harm …
Continue reading "(The difficulties of) Truth and Reconciliation"
Avaaz Petition: Protect the Amazon and Indigenous rights or face international boycott
OUR INDIGENOUS RELATIONS AND COLLABORATORS IN BRAZIL ARE FACING A HUGE THREAT, AS THE COUNTRY IS VOTING TO TAKE AWAY INDIGENOUS LANDS, TO CANCEL INDIGENOUS RIGHTS AND TO REMOVE THE PROTECTIONS OF THE AMAZON FOREST. PLEASE SUPPORT US IF YOU CAN BY SIGNING THE OPEN LETTER BELOW. Open letter to the Brazilian Federal Supreme Court and …
Gift Contract
Written by Vanessa Andreotti, Elwood Jimmy, and Bill Calhoun, February 24, 2021 Decolonial analysis The usual story of change is that there is a problem with the system that needs to be solved. The degree of the problem can vary from the system “not working optimally” to “totally screwed up”. The logical solution proposed is …
Some thoughts on the work of the GTDF collective
In this podcast Vanessa Andreotti offers some thoughts on the analyses and directions that motivate the work of the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures Collective. Click here for a related video in Portuguese. Transcribed text (audio): In the Decolonial Futures Collective, our main analysis is that colonialism doesn't start with subjugation of people or occupation of …
Continue reading "Some thoughts on the work of the GTDF collective"
Haruko Okano on Art and Ceremony
Haruko Okano is an artist based in Vancouver who is one of the 2019 Thread Residency Fellows. The Thread Residency is part of the "Towards Braiding" project.
Pedagogia do útero: conversa com Bill Calhoun
Notes for a comparative review on 3 Indigenous performances
Elwood and Vanessa talk about their notes for a review (that may or may not be written one day) comparing three recent plays written by Indigenous artists: Children of God (a musical about residential school violence by Corey Payette) Material Witness (SpiderWoman Theatre) Looking for Tiger Lily (Anthony Hudson/drag clown Carla Rossi)
Dougald Hine, Vanessa Andreotti, Bayo Akomolafe
Dougald Hine (Dark Mountain Project/Home), Vanessa Andreotti (Decolonial Futures/In Earth'sCARE), Bayo Akomolafe (Emergence Network) Recorded on 2 December 2018 in Paris. The conversation with Dougald Hine was followed up with an interview that was published in 2019 [download PDF].
Lisa Taylor House/Affect
Lisa Taylor reading the affective economies of the house and the affective possibilities of mycelium. Please download the house/mycelium social cartography here. Audio file: Transcript available here: transcript of Lisa Taylor.
Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures 