International Summerschool "Extractivism and its discontents: cultural and artistic counter-movements" in Kassel

The International Summer School of the University of Kassel, organized in collaboration with Más Arte Más Acción (MAMA), the documenta Institut and Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos CELA,  took place as a workshop  program on Latin American ecological and political conflicts from September 7 to 18, 2022, as part of documenta 15 in Kassel.

The sessions featured a diverse group of guest lecturers who have proposed and co-created a variety of themed dialogue spaces that allowed participants to explore the cultural, aesthetic, and political implications of extractive economies through discursive and artistic laboratories, from interdisciplinary perspectives that span the arts, humanities, cultural studies, and social sciences. The participants of the summer school were selected through an open call and the selection by an academic committee that resulted in a group of 35 people, 15 of them recipients of a DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service scholarship. The participants included activists, researchers, artists and academics who reflect on Latin America’s ecological diversity and its long (post)colonial experience of resource extraction through their practices.

The International Summer School “Extractivism and its discontents, cultural and artistic counter-movements” is organized by the University of Kassel, documenta Institut, CELA and Más Arte Más Acción Foundation with the support of documenta 15 and CAPAZ - German-Colombian Peace Institute. This initiative is financed by DAAD - German Academic Exchange Service with funds from the Federal Foreign Office (Auswärtiges Amt, AA).

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