International Seminar
Aesthetics of resistance: other journeys for life
March 20, 2025
Les Abattoirs
Starting with the Zapatistas’ journey for life in Europe in 2021, this seminar will seek to analyse the structuring role of images in the constitution of models of resistance to extractivist and neoliberal logics, in order to create spaces for solidarity and sharing. The practices of marronage, women’s self-management systems and indigenous models of buen gobierno will be discussed through their image cultures and collective practices, in order to consider different proposals for alternative organisation for the survival of the living, from the Global South, to use a common expression.
The postulates of ‘journeys for life’, whose motivations we want to analyse, resonate with the philosophical and anthropological reversal that took place in the last decades of the twentieth century (Latour, 1991; Haraway, 1991) and the demands of the (eco)feminist and ecological movements (Hache, 2016; Malm, 2021). In resonance with the Zapatistas and the thinking of indigenous communities (indígenas, in Spanish), the renewal of the Western way of perceiving the common calls into question an exclusively anthropocentric hegemonic postulate in economics. Haraway’s analyses postulate that survival in the face of the Earth’s ecological collapse depends not only on the human community, but also on inter-species cooperation and the establishment of a living commons (2020). These forms are underpinned by specific cultural and visual practices (Mirzoeff, 2020) that are crucial to the sharing and construction of the social, which this seminar aims to explore with researchers and artists alike.
[su tabs class=”eventos”]10.00-10.15 Welcome and introduction by Lauriane Gricourt (Director, Les Abattoirs); Paula Barreiro López (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès) et Sonia Kerfa (Université Grenoble Alpes)
10.15-10.30 Paula Barreiro López (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès) and Sonia Kerfa (Université Grenoble Alpes) , Nouveaux mondes à construire: aborder la culture visuelle du voyage des zapatistes pour la vie en Europe
10.30-11.45: Lorena Tabares (curator), Un océan où des nombreux océans s’integrent. Inversions et poétiques océaniques de l’escadron zapatiste 421 dans la Montaña (in Spanish with translation by García Martínez) in conversation with Anita Orzes (Universitat de Barcelona)
11.45-12.45 Francesca Cozzolino (EnsAD, Paris), Agir par l’art : solidariser, politiser, résister. Des exemples issus du voyage pour la vie zapatiste in conversation with Tobias Locker (Saint Louis University Madrid)
12.45-14.30 Break
14.30- 15.30 Zahia Rahmani (Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art) : Le voyage de l’Eucalyptus : De la Mer de Tasmanie à la désertification des sols en terre africaine – Suivi du récit de quelques initiatives de refondation agricole contre l’assèchement des sols en Afrique du Nord in conversation with Evelyne Toussaint (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès)
15.30-16.30 Olivier Marboeuf (artist): Tapisseries cacophoniques et cinéma déparlant : tentatives pour une archive fugitive de la Caraïbe in conversation with Lauriane Gricourt (Les Abattoirs)
16.30-16.50 Pause
16.50- 17.30 Les femmes de X’oyep (2024) presentation of Alberto del Castillo’s book with Marion Gautreau (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès) and Audrey Leblanc (EHESS)
17.30-18.15 Roundtable with all participants and the public moderated by Julia Ramírez Blanco (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
18.15-18.30 Closing words
Organization: Paula Barreiro López (Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès), Lauriane Gricourt (Musée des Abattoirs) and Sonia Kerfa (Université Grenoble Alpes)
Seminar organized as part of the project Images politiques et nouveaux mondes à construire : la culture visuelle du voyage des zapatistes pour la vie en Europe / NOVA-IMAGO-ZAP of Labex SMS nd the international research platform Modernidad(es) Descentralizada(s), with the support of FRAMESPA, ILCEA 4 and Musée des Abattoirs.
Image: Acción de apoyo a la Travesía del Escuadrón 421, Zócalo de la Ciudad de México. / Francisco De Parres Gómez, 2021. Photo: Francisco Lion.
