decolonial glossary

A curatorial collective essay project of invited submission by artists and theorists to form a new vocabulary for the decolonial future we want to inhabit, rooted in the linguistic origins of Indigenous American (Kiowa, Quechua), new tongues born in the Americas (Regional AAVE, Jamaican Patwa, Haitian Kreyòl), and Indigenous African languages (Yoruba, Twi). Designing a lexicon beyond what can be expressed in English, Dark Laboratory charts the language for dreaming of new worlds together, informed by Black and Indigenous cosmologies to form a new constellation of thought.

Aims

• demilitarize language

• decolonize vocabularies

• define collective terms of the conditions of possibility for solidarity

• consider how decolonization is not a metaphor, led by Eve Tuck and K. Wayne Yang

• explore the entanglement of race and coloniality