SON[I]A #398
Yaiza Hernández. Deleted scenes
Teresa Arozena, “#20A, Canarias tiene un límite”, 2024
We dig up some unreleased fragments of our conversation with researcher and transdisciplinary curator Yaiza Hernández. We unpack the relationship between militarism and tourism by looking at zonified border territories that also model touristification. Through this lens, we also see that the tourist resort replicates the architectural layout of the colony, offering safe spaces for privilege, wealth, and whiteness. Then, we take a look at the current form of the museum model, warning of certain symptoms suggesting it is reaching a terminal stage. We wrap up with a digression into Yaiza’s understanding of cultural appropriation.
THIS PODCAST IS PART OF NEW PERSPECTIVES FOR ACTION. A PROJECT BY RE-IMAGINE EUROPE, CO-FUNDED BY THE EUROPEAN UNION. CONVERSATION: ROC JIMÉNEZ DE CISNEROS, RICARDO CÁRDENAS AND ANNA RAMOS. SCRIPT: RICARDO CÁRDENAS. SOUND PRODUCTION: ANNA RAMOS.
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Yaiza Hernández Velázquez
Françoise Vergès
In this podcast, Françoise Vergès unpacks the social and environmental politics of cleaning and waste, charting and questioning temporal and spatial interactions that create a neutral site of deprivation, exhaustion and exploitation. She sheds light on the economy and politics of exhaustion, pointing out the role of racial capitalism in the climate crisis. Vergès suggests a political re-reading and understanding of vital needs and natural elements through notions of cleaning, hygiene and medicine, and raises revolutionary questions about the prefabricated assumptions of justice and social transformation through re-thinking the museum.