Job title:
Ph.D. Student
Department:
Department of Ethnic Studies
Bio/CV:
Luíza’s research centers the contemporary art practices of Indigenous, Black, and Brown artists from Latin America, and their diaspora in the United States, with a focus on how particular aesthetic practices articulate non-modern (non-western) knowledges and interrogate the concept of coloniality of gender—and its intrinsic hierarchies of racial categorization. Adopting abolitionist and decolonial frameworks in dialogue with Women of Color feminist methodologies, Luíza considers how art practices may reconceptualize the human as delinked from the imposed modern colonial episteme, affirm multiple ways of existing, and elicit ‘a sensory-erotics of affinity carved out of—and in spite of—difference.
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