Lecture on decolonial aesthesis with ‪Rolando Vázquez and Virgilio Vasconcelos

Lecture on decolonial aesthesis

In the second part of the talk, we will reflect on critical aspects of animation, drawing on influences from Decolonial thought and the Philosophy of Technics. Animation will first be situated within an entanglement of socio-technical aspects, and then its aesthetic and technical developments will be presented as a form of writing that can be a site of struggle for epistemic disobedience and re-existence.

About Rolando Vázquez

Rolando Vázquez is a teacher and decolonial thinker. Vázquez is currently Associate Professor of Sociology at the University College Utrecht. He co-directs with Walter Mignolo the annual Maria Lugones Decolonial Summer School. His most recent publication is “Vistas of Modernity: Decolonial aesthesis and the End of the Contemporary” (Mondriaan Fund 2020).

About Virgilio Vasconcelos

Virgilio Vasconcelos is a researcher and lecturer at LUCA School of Arts. As part of the Inter-Actions research unit, he coordinates the research cluster “Critical Reflections of and through animation”, investigating topics of Decoloniality and how its matrix of power (including but not limited to race, gender and knowledge) relates to animation. His research interests also include topics in Philosophy of Technics and social power relations inscribed in and by technical objects. Teaches animation theory and practice at the Re:Anima Erasmus Mundus Joint Master in Animation and also performs research with institutions from the FilmEU_RIT consortium.