{"id":81,"date":"2021-05-05T20:57:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-06T00:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/mux300-isabelr\/?p=81"},"modified":"2021-05-05T21:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-06T01:00:00","slug":"la-descolonizadora","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/constelacion\/2021\/05\/05\/la-descolonizadora\/","title":{"rendered":"La Descolonizadora"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ladescolonizadora\/?hl=en\">La Descolonizadora<\/a> is a publishing project based in Chile, committed to documenting the decolonial protest actions of the southern cone.<\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.google.com\/u\/0\/d\/1EKUozwG2bf_nWSy_Fgh6VtyYmL8t2w_8=w2858-h1452-iv1\" alt=\"Displaying LD-Agosto-2020-.jpg\" \/>In the fall of 2019, Chile saw a wave of anti-establishment protests erupt. Part of these protests included the derrocation and graffiting of countless monuments throughout the country: actions that came to be known as <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">demonumentalizing <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">efforts. No colonizer was safe from this collective guillotine: Francisco de Aguirre, Jos\u00e9 Men\u00e9ndez, and Pedro de Valdivia are some of the historical figures whose statues came to pay the symbolic price of their efforts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In order to document this movement, the collective <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">La Descolonizadora <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">created and distributed an open-access map that declares \u201ccolonialism is not just a Spanish inheritance, nor the action of a state in expansion, but continues to be a reality imposed upon our contemporary moment.\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/drive\/folders\/1adPrVwJHJjg_UrX5_yCssDQJZaDvA8YX\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Available on Google Drive<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, the team at <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">La Descolonizadora <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">felt that this information should be freely accessible to anyone who wished to understand and reflect upon the actions of 2019. They believe in honoring and shaping a collective memory and experience of political dissidence, contesting official histories through the liberation of information. The map, and the actions it documents, are just a small part of a larger decolonial ethics that undergirds their work.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">La Descolonizadora <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">describe their ethics as one of \u201caesthetic disobedience.\u201d Coming out of a tradition of mass printing, multiple reproductions, collage, and graffiti, this aesthetic practice seeks to rebel against formal artistic constraints and so instrumentalize visuality to express dissent. It re-approriates mass media and rewrites official histories: beheading statues, tagging murals, a slew of guerilla tactics that inspire reflection. It\u2019s also about uncovering hidden histories, stories that might have been repressed under dictatorships and authoritarian regimes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/razacomica.cl\/sitio\/2020\/10\/16\/la-descolonizadora-desobediencia-estetica-para-desmonumentalizar-la-memoria\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In an interview published in early 2020,<\/span><\/a> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">La Descolonizadora <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">aligned themselves with the Zapatista slogan <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ressler.at\/a_world_where_many_worlds_fit\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201ca world where many worlds fit.\u201d<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Through their projects, they aim to find the symbols of our time, and visualize the revolution. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>La Descolonizadora is a publishing project based in Chile, committed to documenting the decolonial protest actions of the southern cone.&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/constelacion\/2021\/05\/05\/la-descolonizadora\/\">Continue Reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">La Descolonizadora<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1523,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-profiles","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/constelacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/constelacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/constelacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/constelacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1523"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/constelacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/constelacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/constelacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions\/84"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/constelacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/constelacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.smith.edu\/constelacion\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}