decolonization
Decolonization is unsettling.
"It brings about the repatriation of Indigenous land and life; it is not a metaphor for other things we want to improve in our societies and schools." The "colonial apparatus is assembled to order the relationships between particular peoples, lands, the 'natural world', and 'civilization'." "Settler colonialism...is a structure, ...an ongoing horror made invisible by its persistence." Settler horror is "the anxiety, the looming but never arriving guilt, the impossibility of forgiveness, the inescapability of retribution." To deal with this, settlers develop "settler moves to innocence" which ""problematically attempt to reconcile settler guilt and complicity, and rescue settler futurity."
I wonder if my project is, in part, a move to innocence. As I dig deeper into the complex relationships I have, and am heir to, in the land I call home, I wonder if I am trying to make my memories of the land I was raised with/in into history.
Through my performance gestures I want to sit with feelings of settler horror holding those stony weights, as a way of accepting responsibility and as a way of moving through it.
I wonder, once I can hold the horror, what next?
see also: appropriate / appropriate, body, change, concrete, ebb / flow, fluid, groundlessness, home, inside / outside, Lamanites, land, magic / ritual, map, mine / mine, myth, noninnocence / risk, phantom pains, problematic, remember / memory / memorial, rocks / stones, southwestern Utah, stable / settled, there / their, Ut(ah/opia), under / inner
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Decolonization is unsettling.
"It brings about the repatriation of Indigenous land and life; it is not a metaphor for other things we want to improve in our societies and schools." The "colonial apparatus is assembled to order the relationships between particular peoples, lands, the 'natural world', and 'civilization'." "Settler colonialism...is a structure, ...an ongoing horror made invisible by its persistence." Settler horror is "the anxiety, the looming but never arriving guilt, the impossibility of forgiveness, the inescapability of retribution." To deal with this, settlers develop "settler moves to innocence" which ""problematically attempt to reconcile settler guilt and complicity, and rescue settler futurity."
I wonder if my project is, in part, a move to innocence. As I dig deeper into the complex relationships I have, and am heir to, in the land I call home, I wonder if I am trying to make my memories of the land I was raised with/in into history.
Through my performance gestures I want to sit with feelings of settler horror holding those stony weights, as a way of accepting responsibility and as a way of moving through it.
I wonder, once I can hold the horror, what next?
see also: appropriate / appropriate, body, change, concrete, ebb / flow, fluid, groundlessness, home, inside / outside, Lamanites, land, magic / ritual, map, mine / mine, myth, noninnocence / risk, phantom pains, problematic, remember / memory / memorial, rocks / stones, southwestern Utah, stable / settled, there / their, Ut(ah/opia), under / inner
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