restauro

{ restauro }   Keywords: propaganda, gattopardismo, modernism, facade In the introduction to Uses of Heritage, Laurajane Smith argues that the authentic essence of heritage—the pivotal juncture when our emotions and personal…

In-digestion

{ in-digestion }   Indigestion is the guttural knowledge of something not sitting well; an elusive intuition of discomfort; a visceral unsettling twitch that pushes you to reprocess something which has not…

vision > dis-vision > en-vision

{ vision > dis-vision > en-vision }   Aware of the perception of sight as a dominant sense over the other senses in the construction of knowledge, especially in Modern-Western societies, we…

amnesia

{ Amnesia Collective }   As the Amnesia Collective, we are aiming to balance between theory and practice, by first, inviting guest speakers to situate the current situation of rising fascism and…

introspection

{ critical introspection }   intro- from Latin intro (adv.) "in, on the inside, within, to the inside," *spek- Proto-Indo-European root meaning "to observe." In Towards a Queer Phenomenology, Sara Ahmed refers…

conduction

{ conduction }   A conductor is an object or type of material that allows the flow of electric current in one or more directions. Conduction is the transmission between conductors. The…

desirefulfilment

{ desirefulfilment }   To be fulfilled means “to be satisfied or happy because of fully developing one's abilities or character”. When we use the -ful of fulfill in a word like…

palimpsestic

{ palimpsestic }   To call something palimpsestic points to it having the ability to be altered; to its purpose being able to extend to one other than its original intent. Simultaneously,…

aestheSis

{ (Decolonial) AestheSis }   (Decolonial) AestheSis is a concept that can be employed as a decolonial option/tool when undertaking an attempt to delink art practices from the colonial matrix of power.…

upcoming / postponed

{ upcoming or postponed? }   #UnscrewYourMonument Like some of the colonial statues that have recently been removed in different cities around the world, why not try to debunk the architecture? Can…