art commentary
through a critical lens.
Welcome to The Decolonized Art Blog! This blog aims to present commentary about our contemporary art world, specifically identifying and exploring how colonization forever has shaped our world. Created by Alyssa Cordero unless otherwise noted :)
Ana Mendieta, Silueta Works in Mexico, 1973-1977 (ESTATE PRINT 1991), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Purchase with a grant provided by The Judith Rothschild Foundation“I feel that if we don't take seriously the ways in which racism is embedded in structures of institutions, if we assume that there must be an identifiable racist who is the perpetrator, then we won't ever succeed in eradicating racism.”
― Angela Y. Davis, Freedom is a Constant Struggle.
Key terms:
((taken from Post-Colonial Studies: The Key Concepts by Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin))
Decolonization
the process of revealing and dismantling colonialist power in all its forms.
Postcolonialism
deals with the effects of colonization on cultures and societies, (and economies).
Imperialism
as Edward Said identifies: imperialism is the practice, theory, and the attitudes of a dominating metropolitan center ruling a distant territory.
Colonialism
the implanting of settlements (and control) on a distant territory.
“There’s really no such thing as the ‘voiceless’. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”