Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures is a collective working at the intersections of systemic violence, colonial denial, ecological unsustainability, and the difficult labour of relational repair. Its members, Dani Siwek and Camilla Cardoso, discuss the importance of art and transformative education in the face of the current ecological, social, and spiritual polycrisis.
What is the methodology of “depth education”? What does the “transformative” mean for our thinking and as a practice? Why turn to art for questions that are difficult to face - and how can we hold space for things to breathe and grow, even if we do not yet know what they are?
This discussion/short film is a contribution to the exhibition of Eva Koťátková: The heart of a giraffe in captivity is twelve kilos lighter curated by Hana Janečková for the Czech representation at the 60th Biennale di Venezia 2024, in collaboration with Himali Singh Soin & David Soin Tappesser (Hyzoloic/Desires), the Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures collective, Kateřina Žák Konvalinová and Jiří Žák, Denisa Langrová and Alex Sihelsk*, Sára Märc, Maja Štefančíková and groups of children and older people.
Concept: Dani Siwek and Camilla Cardoso (Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures), Eva Koťátková, Hana Janečková
Illustrations: Eva Koťátková
