Program
Round table/Panel I (3.30–5 p.m. – Seminar Room and online https://zoom.us/j/98534227994):
Infrastructures of the Future and Ruins of the Present: Art, Extractivism and Memory in Latin America
moderated by RICCARDA FLEMMER
Moderated by Riccarda Flemmer (Unviersity of Tübingen, Germany)
Panelists: Fernando Resende (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil)
Kristell Pech Oxte (University of Tübingen, Germany)
Frederico Tavares (Federal University of Ouro Preto, Brazil)
Carlos Sanhueza (Universidad de Chile, Chile)
This panel offers a collective reflection on the use and meaning of land in Latin America, taking the Capricorn Bioceanic Corridor (Chile–Brazil) and other projects as an infrastructure that projects extractive futures onto territories in the Global South marked by histories of dispossession, violence, and fragmented memory. Based on an ongoing transdisciplinary research project—bringing together scholars, artists, and activists from Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Germany, and Mexico—we approach these projects not only as physical objects, but also as imaginary artifacts that produce forms of time, inhabiting, and exclusion. Rather than accepting its promise of linear development, we analyze them as “hyperobjects” (Morton), whose scale and complexity render it overwhelming and precarious. We do so through artistic practices, techno-environmental approaches, historical analysis, and critical cartography, recognizing that these planned futures are built upon landscapes already wounded by colonial modernity. From this perspective, our interventions seek to render visible the “ruins of the future”—infrastructures that do not yet exist but already produce displacements, extractivisms, and anticipated violence.
Break
Round table/Panel II (5.15–6.45 p.m. – Common Room and onlinehttps://zoom.us/j/98534227994):
Infrastructures of the Future and Ruins of the Present: Art, Extractivism and Memory in Latin America
NELSON ARELLANO, LOUISE GANZ, ARMANDO VELAZQUEZ, MARIA GABRIELA LUGONES
moderated by DOROTHEE KIMMICH
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