This is a collaborative and expository show that adopts Gloria Anzaldúa’s idea of artistic work as a healing practice, with the curandería – the art and practice of healing – of Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso, a decolonial philosopher of Afro-Caribbean origin, and Katia Sepúlveda, a visual artist of Chilean origin. Yuderkys and Katia invited a previously selected group of individual and collective activist and community artists to be part of a process of collective creation based on using their own experiences and different enunciative positions to reflect on a series of texts and contexts that herald, with hope, the disappearance of Europe and its world project based on the ego conquiro.

The entire process involved a year-long theoretical and practical seminar/laboratory, which began in 2021, with monthly virtual sessions in which participants reflected, discussed and imagined based on the following questions: What would the world be like if Europe (as a trope) were to disappear? What would it be like if it had never existed? How has time been experienced outside the historical time of European modernity?

This project will be exhibited simultaneously at two venues: centre d'arts Santa Mònica and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge.

Programme of activities

9 October 2023
Universitat de Barcelona, 5 pm
Roundtable: Antifuturismo: un ejercicio sentésico de fabulación crítica descolonial 

11 October 2023
Santa Mònica and its surroundings, 6 pm
Inaugural roundtable: Antifuturismo cimarrón. Celebrar la reexistencia
Healing ritual and street intervention

12 October 2023
Santa Mònica and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, 7 pm
Inauguration of La cura
Dedication
*You can reserve a babysitting service for this opening for children between 0 and 12 years old. Children under 4 years old must be accompanied by an adult.
Place: Palace of the Virreina. Lab Auditorium (floor 0). Hours: 6:30 p.m.-9 p.m.

L’Occulta, 9 pm
Concert by Grupo Katanga and DJ Maldita Vaina

13 October 2023
La Caníbal, 6 pm
Book launch: Usos y costumbres de los blancos

Ateneu del Raval, 7.30 pm
Concert by Grupo Katanga

14 October 2023
La Virreina LAB, 7 pm
Roundtable: Cimarronaje: un ejercicio de la huida y la reinvención

15 October 2023
Santa Mònica, 6 pm
Performance: Kotz’ijan/Florecer by Colectivo de Mujeres Ajchowen

18 October  2023
Ateneu del Raval, 8 pm
Performance: Kotz’ijan/Florecer by Colectivo de Mujeres Ajchowen

27 October 2023
Santa Mònica, 7.30 pm
Performance: Kotz’ijan/Florecer by Colectivo de Mujeres Ajchowen