Con/Crit/Tec: A Point for Multiple Beginnings

We are intend to foster international exchange between urban based, rural oriented Afro-Indigenous communities between the Northeast (Boston/NYC)  as the colonial/capitalist core of the settler colony recognized as the United States, and the colonial/capitalist core of the region of Latin America recognized as Sao Paulo, Brazil. By centering ecological and subversive practices cultivated to adapt to current neoliberal ruins, our intention is to activate spaces of exchange and strategy toward finally landing a solid blueprint of marronage/ or quilombola from Brazil for the Northeast of the United States. Both are members of Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust (NEFOC) staff and network respectively.

We are Çaca Yvaire, an artist-practitioner, and O. Diane Enobabor, PhD candidate in Earth and Environmental Studies at CUNY.

As per an invitation extended by the Center for Arts Design and Social Research, we have been included as part of the 2023 residency cohort that will embark on a learning and strategy exchange around the “technologies of critical conscientization.” Stemming from the work of Paulo Freire, this residency privileges critical consciousness as a marker toward approaching the digital/technical/informational shifts that continue to mark and shape our everyday lives as people in resistance and in land defense work. Please read more about our exchange here : https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/507829/technologies-of-critical-conscientization/ 

We aim to work with the instructors and guides that are Brazilian based, but transnationally renowned, to configure how to continue to do practice-based organizing as land-defense work, unintelligible to exploitative forces. The urgent need for this skillset is simple: counterinsurgency has taken social movement language in the United States and has deactivated its intent toward global transformation within local practice. We hope to foster this exchange in Boston with local based artists and activists producing NEFOC specific programming into the next year 2023-2024 year .