Unmaking to Make

The call to decolonise has become one of the dominant forces in contemporary art – yet its most radical possibilities are routinely absorbed and neutralised by the institutions of the Global North. Unmaking to Make intervenes in this impasse by turning to Latin America, centring Afro-diasporic and I...

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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1767302026-06-04T08:12:51Z Unmaking to Make Lemos, Beatriz Portocarrero, Florencia Flynn, Alex Ungprateeb Clavo, María Iñigo Contemporary Art Decolonisation Latin America Anti-colonial theory Afro-Diasporic Perspectives Indigenous Epistemologies Curatorial Practice Museum studies Institutional critique Language and Colonialism Decolonising Methodologies Temporalities thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTS Decolonisation of knowledge / Decoloniality thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies The call to decolonise has become one of the dominant forces in contemporary art – yet its most radical possibilities are routinely absorbed and neutralised by the institutions of the Global North. Unmaking to Make intervenes in this impasse by turning to Latin America, centring Afro-diasporic and Indigenous perspectives from a region where artistic practice operates at the intersection of aesthetics, politics and social life, and whose thinkers and practitioners have long theorised decolonisation from within. Drawing on essays, curatorial reflections and conversations with contributors from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Ecuador, Guatemala, Martinique, Mexico and Peru, the volume moves across four thematic terrains – counter-genealogies, museums and cultural institutions, the decolonisation of language, and plural temporalities – to show how art unsettles colonial narratives, reshapes knowledge and generates new vocabularies of power. At its core, the volume makes a bold claim: that Latin American artistic practice is not just transforming the canon but articulating a form of thought – one that theorises, enacts and insists upon other worlds. Essential reading for scholars, curators, artists and students of contemporary art, decolonial thought and Latin American cultural politics. 2026-05-20T09:17:43Z 2026-05-20T09:17:43Z 2026-05-19T12:54:32Z 2026 book ONIX_20260519T105721_9781806550029_3 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/113241 9781806550029 9781806550036 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/176730 eng Modern Americas open access image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113241/1/9781806550029.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/113241/1/9781806550029.pdf UCL Press UCL Press 29b9f0a3-1b0d-4bdd-99d7-b4d3432d7fcc 9781806550029 9781806550036 UCL Press London open access
spellingShingle Contemporary Art
Decolonisation
Latin America
Anti-colonial theory
Afro-Diasporic Perspectives
Indigenous Epistemologies
Curatorial Practice
Museum studies
Institutional critique
Language and Colonialism
Decolonising Methodologies
Temporalities
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Unmaking to Make
title Unmaking to Make
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topic Contemporary Art
Decolonisation
Latin America
Anti-colonial theory
Afro-Diasporic Perspectives
Indigenous Epistemologies
Curatorial Practice
Museum studies
Institutional critique
Language and Colonialism
Decolonising Methodologies
Temporalities
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTS Decolonisation of knowledge / Decoloniality
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies
topic_facet Contemporary Art
Decolonisation
Latin America
Anti-colonial theory
Afro-Diasporic Perspectives
Indigenous Epistemologies
Curatorial Practice
Museum studies
Institutional critique
Language and Colonialism
Decolonising Methodologies
Temporalities
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JH Sociology and anthropology::JHM Anthropology::JHMC Social and cultural anthropology
thema EDItEUR::G Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary subjects::GT Interdisciplinary studies::GTS Decolonisation of knowledge / Decoloniality
thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studies
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