ISTP 2026 Conference
“Theorizing in Dark Times – Art, Narrative, Politics”
June 8 – June 12, 2026 | Brooklyn, NY, USA
Conference Agenda
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Panel: Narrative Resistance and Identity Location: North Hall 107* link to join Session Chair: Claire Park | |
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The Mountains Travel- Stations of Migrant Territorialities (ONLINE) Academy of Fine Arts Vienna and National University of Colombia Mountains have been often places of colonial fracture and capitalist extractivism as well as of refuge and resistance. In times of necropolitics (Mbembe), the relations with them are frequently marked by death and destruction. This research looks for ways to ethically re-relating with the mountains and acknowledging their interactions with us, particularly as migrant bodies-territories. The project considers indigenous epistemologies of territory as a shared place in ontological relation with all related beings and a feeling-thinking understanding of the world. These concepts are expanded through the Aymara ch’ixi positionality, the ambivalent concurrence of fractured cultures, according to Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, that presents how beings are and are not simultaneously. These ideas and the resistance of the mountains’ inhabitants bring possibilities of existence in the apparently empty spaces between the mountains. The methodology develops a weaving in the wind of diverse mountain-beings precisely in those spaces. Through exercises of listening to our silences and strategies of poetical resistance, a chain of relational artworks is created that helps to relate to the mountains. These artworks were created in collaboration with several partners in four different phases (stations) in Germany, Mexico, and Colombia, aimed at understanding mountains as traveling the spirals of space-time. This understanding is based upon indigenous conceptualizations of time and belonging with the whole world as territory. | |

