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Index Art Book Fair × Ca'Buccari
September 12-15, 2024
September 12-15, 2024
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Pedagogies of Resurgence
Pedagogies of Resurgence
Dismantling calls for creative and imaginative strategies in the face of a system that constantly mimics its tyrannical movements of hate by reconstructing them with renewed implements. The oppressive apparatus builds ever more elaborate instruments of war, brutal machines for the eradication of worlds and cosmologies, exterminating everything that does not align with the colonial project, which only allows the existence of the exploiter and the exploited. In this context, poetic justice no longer suffices; naming faults, and apologizing for acts committed by violent states to eradicate otherness is not enough. At this point, it is difficult for us to imagine an ethical path of reparation. Where do we go from here? What paths remain for us? How do we inhabit the rage for what has been committed without losing sight of what we wish to forge together? How do we dismantle the empires of control that have been established over us? Deleuze and Guattari would say that we must "strike hard, with the hammer" and cultivate underground shoots of resurgence.
According to Frantz Fanon, "When we revolt, it's not for a particular culture. We revolt simply because, for many reasons, we can no longer breathe" —I can't breathe. From this moment, we can only seek ways to create emancipatory movements that restore our breath, ways to regenerate what has been destroyed —knowing that there are things that can no longer be revived— ways to rebuild what has been eradicated, dispossessed, exterminated.
Juana Belén believed in the liberating possibilities contained in education. Audre Lorde wrote: "The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot", thereby recognizing the power of pedagogical gestures. Knowing that this was the only strategy available to share their ideas —and to be read— they both opted, in their different cultural contexts and times, to build self-publishing spaces to disseminate their thoughts. Belén founded the Vesper, becoming the first Mexican woman to found a newspaper, an anarchist and revolutionary newspaper. Lorde, for her part, created the Kitchen Table publishing house, reclaiming the kitchen as an intimate location of political construction rooted in invisible spaces. For both writers, self-publishing from unexpected places meant acting in the face of contingency, enabling spaces for thought that resisted dominant epistemologies. In doing so, they constructed environments of collective thought rooted in insurgent political involvements that challenged the norm, empowering individuals to be part of a larger movement.
The public program of Index Venice draws from these underground gestures of resurgence, making visible the strategies that shape emancipatory pedagogies and restore the possibility of dismantling oppressive systems. We hope this encounter will bring us together to build from these resonant pulses, contributing to learning trajectories shaped by our trenches—or even our kitchens.