lucila novoa (b.1979 Bogotá, Colombia) is a Colombian-Dutch artist based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands; she holds a Master of Art Praxis Degree from the Dutch Art Institute (Arnhem, NL). As an adoptee of color, displaced from Colombia to the Netherlands – without her consent – her practice proposes to re-think and disturb the European Western social, political terms of order that surround us . In her artistic practice she rethinks what it means to be human guided by black feminist thinkers such as Sylvia Wynter, Denise Ferreira da Silva and Saidiya Hartman who argue that at the core of contemporary humanness lies a struggle defined by a racialized order of human existence. As a form of critical fabulation she’s introducing the figure of the human adoptee of color - whose life is lived in the absence of cultural memory and a historical archive - to explore the power of speculative absence by seeking hope and healing in the creation of new narratives and embodied experiences.
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The Entangled Readers - Ongoing Study Group
As Entangled Readers we practice ways in which text and language might resonate with, and be digested by, the bodies present in the room. We approach reading as a collective, dialogical, and full body activity. By engaging sensorial methodologies with critical thinking we attempt to become receptive to the knowledge present on the page, under our skin and within the spaces between. Exploring tools/conditions which assist us to think through current political climates and open up our practices.