Tiempos migratorios: VIII bienal ASAB

Abstract

The ASAB Biennial is an exhibition that has been held since 2003 in the ASAB Exhibition Hall. It is an artistic event that aims to locate and document the most recent debates in contemporary art, its relationship with local contexts and its repercussions on global realities. This eighth version of the Biennial is carried out in conjunction with the Migratory Times Project, proposed by the Institute of (Im)possible Subjects, directed by Dalida María Benfeld. This collaboration has been made possible by the complementarity of the biennial's objectives with those of the aforementioned project. In this sense, the need we have today to understand the historical context and the current present of the multiple flows of culture, objects and ideologies that cross the countries of the global North and South is evident. Likewise, it is important to investigate the dimensions of gender, race, nationality or class that determine the political actions and forms of production of subjectivity of migrants and/or displaced persons. Also, the dimension of global climate change is a spectral presence that announces itself through "nature" and its catastrophes. The denaturation that is necessary to understand nature is one of the paradoxical methodologies that confront us. These dimensions, which are the result of the reconfiguration of the world order through the demarcation of new borders, new wars, and new violences that update the old violences of all kinds and the injustices that are concomitant to them, become visible as contemporary versions of epistemic, political, aesthetic, environmental, biosocial, race and gender coloniality.