TALKING TO ACTION - A DIAGRAM This diagram illustrates connections between key concepts and practices found in the research project and exhibition, Talking to Action. These lines demonstrate multi-directional movements of various bodies, both physical and symbolic – from those engaging in dialogue within communities and spaces of learning and resistance, to actions in the street, or those crossing physical, subjective, political, or invisible borders.
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The diagram was designed by André Mesquita in 2017, with the theoretical support of Bill Kelley Jr., David Gutiérrez Castañeda, Jennifer Ponce de León, Lucía Sanromán, Maria Fernanda Cartagena, Paulina Varas, and Rebecca Zamora. Copyleft - Free distribution.
control
gentrification
racism
STATE
class divisions
chicano
translation
immigration identity global south
community
citizenship
context
dominant narratives
borders
sea
war
surveillance
agriculture
research group
language
“official” history
care
public secrecy
commons Latin America?
pachakuti
the unknown knowns
knowledge territory
history from below people’s history
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counter-history
“battleground of the present”
“this LA / that LA”
history
neoliberalism
secrecy
invisibility
evidence human rights
precarity
memory
violence
visibility
monuments
collective
work
curating
errorism
collaboration
play “art is not neutral”
the thinking subject latino
artistic practices
meetings tactical media
pedagogy
dialogue social practice
institutions
movement slavery
archive teaching
workshops performance counter-cartography
direct action mediation
escrache
object
extradisciplinarity
militant research
alternative institutions
oppression
learning
forms of resistance
dictatorship
colonialism
protest
urban interventions
sound art
autonomy
activism
publications
socially engaged art
critical consciousness “To exist, humanly, is to name the world, to change it”
community-based art
militant sound investigation
voices
liberation theology
liberation theory
activist art
silence
dialogical practice social struggles communication
what have we heard?
solidarity cooperation
listening
liberation movements