Pedro Lasch and FHI Social Practice Lab will have two contributions in the show

Decolonizing Appearance, guest curated by Nicholas Mirzoeff at CAMP / Center for Art on Migration Politics, Trampoline House, Copenhagen, Denmark (September 21 – December 15, 2018)

Entitled Global Indianization / Indianización Global, the first is map (2009) by Pedro Lasch that merges English, Spanish, and French to produce a new cartography based on the meanings of the words ‘Indian’ and ‘Indigenous.’ Providing the foundation for our current processes of globalization, the map returns to the image of extreme ignorance and confusion experienced by Europeans during their arrival to the American Continent. As a future or contemporary world order implied by the renaming of the continents, however, the map also registers the epic growth of cultural and political power accomplished by the very populations who have been accurately and mistakenly defined by the idea of the ‘Indian’ and the ‘Indigenous.’

For this exhibition, the map will be painted as a mural with Kamilla Askholm Jorgensen and participating immigrants and asylum seekers. It will also be the backdrop for a special workshop led by the artist on December 2nd, 2018. The participatory process held under the name of Naturalizations: Facial Politics and Decolonial Aesthetics will involve an exploration of these topics through the use of mirror masks and other processes of collective defacement. It will also address how the concept of the ‘Indian’ and the ‘Indigenous’ resonate in Copenhagen and its immigrant communities. Optional readings on Lasch’s previous engagements with decolonial aesthetics (2003-2018) will also serve as a complement to our conversation.

CAMP / Center for Art on Migration Politics