Dark Laboratory Presents

I’m New Here:

Black and Indigenous Ecologies

By Allison Arteaga

Allison Arteaga is a Peruvian-American artist, working in photography, video and prose. They earned a B.F.A at Cornell University, and are pursuing an M.F.A. at Brown University. Allison’s work explores questions of imperialism and war, collective memory and living history, and the possibilities of true liberation for the oppressed, specifically in Peru and Latin America.

These nations live at the junction of a negative peace and hard domination, facing a national amnesia in the midst of violence and poverty and continued extraction by global powers. Arteaga, born in Peru to a Quechua family, is guided by the philosophy of liberation, mainly by the ideas of Jose Carlos Mariategui and revolutionaries like him, as well as her experiences as a working class and Indigenous person, which are all tied to a long history of struggle. Arteaga’s work demands a reimagination of our future, and to reexamine what we view as humanity, and what we understand to be peace.

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