Seminar on Romani Aesthesis: Emancipatory Potentials Beyond Modern-Colonial Art and Aesthetics

As part of the international presentation of his book ‘Cosmosonoridades: cante-gitano y canción-gyu. Epistemologías del sentir’, Iván Periáñez Bolaño, doctor and professor of anthropology at the University of Seville, will hold a dialogue with the art historian and director Miguel Ángel Vargas on the emancipatory possibilities of the concept of “aesthesis romaní” on 3 September 2024 at 7 p.m. at the Foudation Kai Dikhas.

Bolaños and Vargas are two Spanish Roma-Gitanos creators and thinkers deeply influenced by the critical debates of flamenco and contemporary Romani creation. Concepts such as representation, recognition and objectification will be questioned in open dialogue with a clear direction: to speak from other categories and positions, having Bolaño’s book Cosmosonoridades: cante-gitano y canción-gyu. Epistemologías del sentir and his reflections on the current state of so-called contemporary Roma art, as landmark and base of the conversation.

From the peripheral experience of the neighbourhoods and villages of Seville, they will trace the line of continuities that takes us from the presence of Spanish Roma artists in Berlin in the 19th century to the (…) self-representation in full consciousness from our places of enunciation (…) in the 21st century of the persistent inequalities that continue to exist.

In conversation with: Miguel Angel Vargas Rubio & Iván Periañez Bolaño.

The discussion is hosted by Foundation Kai Dikhas, in collaboration with the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC). The conversation will take place in Spanish and English languages.

Abb.: Manolo Gómez, Romnia,2010,Mischtechnik auf Papier,70 x 50 cm

Event: 03.09.2024 – 19:00 h
Admission: free
Location: Tak Village at Aufbau Haus, Oranienhof, 10969 Berlin