Installation made up of two seperate pieces that are quilted, appliqued, hand embroidered and latch-hooked. This installation is used for the performance Things I Found Nelle Viscere. (Things I Found Inside the Bowels of Being) as a sort of unravelling stage. Beginning with the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum map (1570) that would come to orientate the Western world with itself as the centre point, this performative installation seeks to disorientate the zero-point of Western epistemological comfort zones.
Now I am going to stand at the centre of this map around which everyone else must revolve.
from the text Things I found nelle viscere
…Let’s begin this Theatre Of The World.
The new nomos of the earth comes with a new observer and a new epistemic foundation. This sense of “newness” will become one of the anchors of all rhetoric of modernity, from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first. The Columbian philosopher Santiago Castro-Gomez described it as the hubris of the zero point. This second consequence sets the stage for the imperial control and colonization of knowledge and of being.
walter Mignolo, 2011, p.79
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