“Decolonial Cartography of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood: Visualizing Indigenous Resistance”

• In Event: Decolonizing Aesthetics in Latin@ Arts

Abstract

Jimenez Underwood’s attention to cartography emerges from a decolonial imaginary, a counter-hegemonic visualization of space. Contextualized in the history of map-making and its role in engendering, producing, and securing colonial and imperial domination. The cartography of Consuelo Jimenez Underwood visualizes Indigenous. I will examine the decolonial imaginary of her installations, Diaspora, Undocumented Border Flowers (2009), Flowers, Border, and Threads, Oh My! (2013), Welcome to Border-landia! (2013), and the series Land Grabs 500 Years.

Presenter

• Karen Mary Davalos, University of Minnesota