In the workshop 'Towards post extractive art', we will take a closer look at the connections between extractivism, climate breakdown and colonialism and examine how these oppressive structures are embedded in Western arts and cultures. As a counter-practice, we will explore the relation between bodies and territories and between rituals and artistic practices. In doing so, we will turn to the Latin-American idea of Cuerpo-Territorio (Body-Territory), a concept that can be used as a decolonial tool and go into the potential of embodied and participatory methods. 

Teresa Borasino (Lima, 1978) is a Amsterdam-based visual artist, designer and researcher, examining the interplay between art and activism, poetics and politics, and the radical engagement with social movements. Since 2014, her practice centers the struggle for climate justice, developing new forms of creative intervention. In 2016, she co-founded Fossil Free Culture NL, a collective of artists and activists working to confront oil and gas sponsorship of public cultural institutions in the Netherlands with the aim of dismantling the social acceptability of the fossil fuel industry through disobedient art.

This conversation is part of MINO LAB, an annual residency for emerging artists to critically reflect on their practice and to ground it in its broader socio-political context.

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