Decolonial Poetics and Book Launch w/ INCA Press

Join Ulises for a book launch and presentation with INCA Press founders Aeron Bergman and Alejandra Salinas along with an introduction by INCA Press board member and collaborator Laurel V. McLaughlin.

The event will center on a presentation of the press's most recent title, KIRKI QHAÑI – Container of Andean Poetics by Elvira Espejo Ayca. This collection of essays and poems/songs situates Aymara ancestrality and Andean poetics within a contemporary discourse. The book serves as both a beautiful archive of Andean traditions and a powerful call to address urgent futures. Described by the press, "KIRKI QHAÑI is in itself a bag of diverging moments and temporalities, a collection of innumerable voices, a container of Andean poetics."

Bergman and Salinas will also discuss INCA Press, highlighting key releases from the imprint's catalog. The conversation will touch on themes explored in their publications, including: the status of art under neoliberalism; decolonization at Bolivia's National Museum of Art in a text by Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz; explorations of early capitalist expropriation of common lands through the lenses of Marx and the USDA; and manuel arturo abreu's writings orbiting "art, race, tech, and feelings." 

INCA Press publishes experimental and contemporary art books—encompassing books as art, books on art, artists’ writings, and interdisciplinary inventions. INCA Press is a publisher of experimental books focused on contemporary art, artists' writings, and interdisciplinary projects. It aims to dissolve the boundaries between categories of art making and discourse, supporting work that exists between the academy, art, poetry, sociology, and activism.

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