Critical resources for approaching visual historical acquis from a decolonial perspective

Abstract

This essay seeks to highlight problems, outline particularities and propose critical resources for the interpretation and "con-formation" of archives on visual acquis, artistic practices and interventional processes in the public space of the recent past and the time that takes place. Within the framework of Latin American visual cultural studies, the proposal seeks to encourage interpretation strategies that promote critical decolonial readings of creative practices in the public space.

The "hegemonic- associative" logics that structured the archivable, their ways of systematizing and organizing information to be "safeguarded", constitute fundamental epistemic-philosophical problems and questions for decolonial theory and practice. The interest in the discourses that actors that orbit around non-hegemonic aesthetics, and that interrelate senses from disciplinary, ontological and discursive, border and interstitial crosses, are necessary for the visualization of the multiple alternative forms of visuality that coexist with the dominant visual and interpretive paradigms.