don't blame us for what happened

“Through a labyrinthine tour of four stations (‘eat gold!, insatiable white conquero’; ‘our genders are ancestral drifts’; ‘Pachakuti mood’; and ‘Around the world: my body is a checkpoint / my body is a borderline’) this multimedia installation is proposed as an Andean huaca – fundamental Inca sanctuaries, tombs, mummies, sacred places and animals – which will act as a critique of Western and heteronormative constructions present in the Spanish colonial project inaugurated in 1492, in which dogs played a fundamental role as a tool of torture and oppression. This repressive project did not end in the colony.”

This installation by Colectivo Ayllu / Migrantes Transgresorxs is ‘a collaborative research and artistic-political action group formed by migrants, people of color, queer and sexual-gender dissidents from the ex-Spanish colonies’. Their brave installation draws upon long memories of colonial pain and inserts contemporary realities of violence from the ‘new dogs’ of racist institutionalised practice that most do not experience. This oppression from the border to the detention centre to modern technologies of control is for the collectove an extremely difficult and stressful way of living in the world. As they express: ‘In 2020 we, Black and Indigenous sodomites, are still alive and with wounds we dance the pain away.’

Alex Aguirre Sánchez, Born 1973 in Quito, Ecuador
Leticia / Kimy Rojas, Born 1969 in Guayaquil, Ecuador
Francisco Godoy Vega, Born 1983 in Santiago, Chile
Lucrecia Masson, Born 1981 in Ombucta, Argentina
Yos Piña Narváez, Born 1984 in Caracas, Venezuela