YANAK UYWAÑA. The Mutual Nurturing of the Arts

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YANAK UYWAÑA. The Mutual Nurturing of the Arts
Elvira Espejo Ayca is an artist, musician, weaver and storyteller in the oral tradition of her place of origin, the Allyu Qaqachaka in Oruro, Bolivia. In her essay YANAK UYWAÑA. The Mutual Nurturing of the Arts, she speaks of reason and aesthetics as instruments of Western philosophical domination, which functions as a form of legitimization of colonial extractivism: Extractivism of raw materials, cultural goods and forms of knowledge alike. Art galleries – Espejo writes – are part of how a hierarchized epistemic geopolitics works. In the present essay, Elvira Espejo Ayca discusses paradigm shifts in how we understand art, resulting from the linguistic terminology of the Aymara language and from life in the indigenous communities themselves, through the creation of cultural goods and information resources that contribute to the understanding of mutual education as a new vision of life and also as a means of anti-colonial resistance.

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ISBN: 9783903046443

Language: English

Publication date: 29.01.2024

Number of pages: 36

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