initiated and ed. by Sophie Krier ; with Rolando Vázquez, Saodat Ismailova
- Author(s)
- Sophie Krier, Rolando Vázquez, Saodat Ismailova
- Editor(s)
- Sophie Krier, Rolando Vázquez, Saodat Ismailova
- Publication
- Eindhoven : Onomatopee, 2023
- Scope
- 128 Pages, illustrated, 23.5 cm.
- ISBN
- 9789493148833
In this 5th issue, Field Essays brings together Uzbek artist and filmmaker Saodat Ismailova with decolonial scholar Rolando Vázquez. While Ismailova came of age in the post-Sovjet era of Central Asia, Vázquez carries within him the ancestral geographies of the Latin American continent - or Abya Yala as indigenous peoples call her. The book sets out on a journey to find out what these differing cultures can learn from each other in terms of mourning and healing the triple colonial wound of timelessness, earthlessness and worldlessness (Vázquez: 2018). Can a book be a gesture of offering rather than a space of enunciation? Can it be a space of listening that can reconfigure inherited Western modes of thinking and working and create a space of “coming to voice” for silenced histories and life lines? The name given to this book and journey is “Q. Meanderings in worlds of mourning”. Q stands for the Uzbek word qyrq, number 40, which connects to many parts of Uzbek culture: 40 (+1) spirits, 40 hottest and coldest days, but also 40 girls, an ancestral matriarchal epos, and a 40 day silence retreat at transition moments in life (death, birth, mariage).
- Person as subject
- Saodat Ismailova, Sophie Krier
- Keywords
- film , critical aesthetics , decolonisation , mourning rituals
- Location
- Cabinet 29 - 5: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; decolonisatie
- Remarks
- Inlcudes notes, biographies.
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