Watch recording here:

https://youtu.be/12wN7oimDM0

Speakers:

Jorge Iván Jaramillo Hincapié (Colombia)

Lieli Loures (Universidade Federal Fluminense - Brazil)

Verônica Maria Alves Lima (UFF - Brazil)

Sara Vakili (University of Tübingen - Germany)

Chair: María José Prieto (Universität Tübingen)

Description:

Media narrative can be a violent symbolic power that maintains the status quo and produces meanings inscribed in the territorialities in dispute (RESENDE, IQANI;2019). Thinking from decolonial theories, we propose to discuss the potential of artistic production to displace the violence disseminated by the hegemonic narratives. In this context, violence is an important category to understand the dynamics of power in the Global South. It is the centrality of colonial events that structure social relations until today. As Mombaça (2013) says it is important to name the violence and the violent that affects bodies, practices, and subjectivities, and insists on reinforcing dichotomies, stereotypes, and common sense.

Looking at some recent events, such as Colombia protests, Brazilian gender violence, and murder of Brazilian black and indigenous population we will analyze the constant updates of colonialism that shape the heteronormative, patriarchal-phallocentric, "white-centric"/racist dimensions of media. On the other hand, through the work of contemporary artist Shirin Neshat, it possible to think how Farsi (Iranian language) became a decolonizing tool and practice. In the same way as an Iranian artist, a nonbinary Brazilian artist, and activist, Jota Mombaça uses her body as manifest to rethink colonialism, racism, gender, and art itself.

In times of democratic crises like this, it seems propitious to look at media, understanding it as space/territory of power/mediation and set it in perspective with artistic production to point out possible futures more inclusive, plural and less unequal.

About:

Jorge Iván Jaramillo Hincapié, Colombian social communicator and journalist, Master in Social Sciences, Doctor in Knowledge and Culture in Latin America, teacher and researcher of Afro-Latin American issues and their representation in the media. Professor at Universidad Los Libertadores, in the master's course in Creative Communication.

Lieli Loures, brazilian Ph.D. student at Federal Fluminense University. Master in Communication Sciences at São Paulo University. Bachelor in journalism. As intersectional feminist researches Rape culture and Violence against women; Body, territory, narrative, and violence; Journalism and Democracy. Dissertation analyzed the coverage of newspaper Folha de S. Paulo in the case of Roger Abdelmassih crossing journalism, feminist studies, and criminal law.

Verônica Maria Alves Lima, brazilian journalist, PhD student at PPGCOM/UFF. Master’s in media communication at Universidade Estadual Paulista - Unesp, where she also graduated. Researches journalism andjournalistic narratives, analyzing this practice under the epistemic bias of decoloniality and the intersections with the concept of the Global South.

Sara Vakili is holding two distinct, yet for her equally fascinating bachelors of Electronic engineering in Shiraz (Iran) and Fine Arts with major in painting at San Francisco State University. Then she moved to Tübingen to pursue her education in American studies with a focus on “Queer Art”. She is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Tübingen under Prof. Dr. Ingrid Hotz- Davies’ supervision and working as a co-coordinator of Erasmus Mundus Program Crossways in Cultural Narratives. Her ongoing project is “The Making of Icon: St. Sebastian and Rumi in Queer Culture.” She has also been twice granted The Global South Scholarship for research stays at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico. Her areas of interest range from Art History, Feminist Studies, Mythology, and Mysticism to Decoloniality and Global South studies. In her leisure time she is a calligrapher at Tübingen Town Hall for “Goldenes Buch”.