Aguas y ríos: Activismo, descolonización y naturaleza en Cecilia Vicuña y Ana Tijoux. (Spanish).

Waters and rivers: Activism, decolonization and nature in Cecilia Vicuña and Ana Tijoux. (English)

ART & politics; LATIN American social conditions; DECOLONIZATION; POLITICAL participation

Two recent productions of Vicuña and Tijoux are analyzed in this article: the Quipu Mapocho installation (2017) and the song “Río abajo” (2014), respectively. The junctions of art and activism are examined through these works, particularly how both artists create rhetorics of resistance that render porous the boundaries between art and politics and also introduce critical positions against the modern-colonial-patriarchal-capitalist rationality that still governs Latin American societies. From this standpoint, I propose that Vicuña and Tijoux promote the decolonization of nature based on the decolonization of knowledge, articulating an ecological discourse in which rivers and seas are defended from the perspective of an indigenous “water culture” but without lapsing into purist or archaic visions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

En este artículo se analizan dos producciones recientes de Cecilia Vicuña y Ana Tijoux: la instalación Quipu Mapocho (2017) y la canción “Río abajo” (2014), respectivamente. A partir de estos trabajos, se examinan los cruces entre arte y activismo y cómo ambas artistas elaboran retóricas de la resistencia que vuelven porosos los límites entre el arte y lo político e instalan posiciones críticas frente a la racionalidad moderna-colonial-patriarcal-capitalista que aún rige a las sociedades latinoamericanas. Desde esta perspectiva, se propone que Vicuña y Tijoux promueven la descolonización de la naturaleza a partir de la descolonización de los saberes, articulando un discurso ecológico en que los ríos y mares son defendidos desde una “cultura del agua” de raíz indígena, pero sin caer en visiones puristas o arcaizantes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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