Caring Together in Decolonial Healing
MA Thesis Critical Theory and Art Praxis
Dutch Art Institute
30 dec 2020, Arnhem
Thesis Abstract.
This thesis explores what it means to be human guided by Sylvia Wynter’s thought provoking trajectory “Towards the Human, after Man” and Denise Ferreira da Silva’s encompassing book Toward a Global Idea of Race (2007); and argues that at the core of contemporary humanness lies a struggle defined by a racialized order of human existence. This struggle informs not only those racialized Others but to varying degrees impacts all human beings on a global scale. As a form of tentacular thinking this thesis contributes in troubling the colonial category of the human by introducing the figure of the human adoptee of color in relation to a decolonial ethics of care and healing. Pushing against normative notions of modes of being human the adoptee of color radically rethinks what it means to reclaim humanness and an ethic of care.
OUT NOW: publication of Caring Together in Decolonial Healing, edition of 200. With a new additional preface specially written for this occasion. Design by Christoph Clarijs, preface edited by Mónica Lacerda (October 2021). Sold by BOOKS@RET, PrintRoom and others. Or just send me an email at lucie@luciedraai.nl.
