File:Flores Ana Paola 2023 Manifesto for Mexicanx Futures.pdf

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Curatorial Manifesto - Mexicanx Futures

This curatorial manifesto focuses in creating a Mexicanx identity beyond post-colonialism. Throughout this work, I pay attention to rereading of the modern capitalist colonial system today, and unveiling what colonialism obscured. In my research I examine curatorial social organizations from which people resist the oppressive machinations of capitalism in race, gender, and class. By examining the works by Maria Lugones, Gloria Anzaldúa, Deleuze and Guatarri, Kodwo Eshun and Barbara Glowczeski, the curatorial manifesto gives an historical overview to the philosophical and historical marginalization’s that Mexico faces. Many communities struggle today with race and gender oppression in the current system of capitalism. The manifesto argues that social activism (embodied performativity) provides ways to find alternative resistant interactions towards colonial difference and harmonic disobedience. The essay explores the socio-political activism by The Zapatista Army of National Liberation (ELZN), and juxtaposes curatorial exhibitions such as: Maria Thereza Alves, The Return of a Lake, in dOCUMENTA 13, Mariana Castillo Deball at Hamburger Banhof Berlin and artist Erick Beltran’s intervention at Documenta 15. Lastly, the essay weaves upon the publication “Songs and Spells and Images by Mayan Women.” The “fathermothers” of the poetry and incantations spell out magical ways of dwelling. By exploring ancient decolonial language and rituals. The expanded field of the curatorial can create spaces for care and becoming. Therefore, Mexicanx Futures investigates decolonial alternatives, the vital potential of solidarity and its future possibilities yet to come.