Talk
The Decolonial Earth
15 Jun 2019
Event times
14:30 - 17:30
Cost of entry
Free - book your tickets at bit.ly/TheDecolonialEarth
Address
- Goldsmiths, University of London
- New Cross
- London
England - SE14 6NW
- United Kingdom
Join us for an afternoon of performance art and presentations by seven diverse artists, activists, academics and writers on envisioning a decolonised future, exploring ideas and concepts on postcolonialism, orientalism, Otherness, white fragility, diaspora identities and mental health.
About
How do we, citizens of the world today, explore and expand our decolonial future? How can we imagine alternative futures and possibilities without colonial hegemony? How are Black, Asian, Indigenous and ethnic minorities building and shaping their cultural narratives and communities outside the West?
Join us for an afternoon of performance art and presentations by seven diverse artists, activists, academics and writers on envisioning a decolonised future, exploring ideas and concepts on postcolonialism, orientalism, Otherness, white fragility, diaspora identities and mental health.
BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET: bit.ly/TheDecolonialEarth
Inspired by Fanon’s assertion that when the ‘colonised revolts, it is not for a particular culture, they revolt simply because, for a variety of reasons, they can no longer breathe’.
“Challenging the colonial world is not a rational confrontation of viewpoints. It is not a discourse on the universal, but the impassioned claim by the colonized that their world is fundamentally different” ~ Frantz Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth
“Superiority? Inferiority? Why not simply try to touch the other, feel the other, discover each other?” ~ Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks
Saturday, 15 June 2019
2.30pm - 5.30pm
PSH02, Professor Stuart Hall Building
Goldsmiths, 8 Lewisham Way,
New Cross, London SE14 6NW
Supported by the Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies 40th Anniversary Community Fund