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Latin American & Carribean Union

We are the LACU, a space to rethink and challenge the notions of what it means to be from Latin America and the Caribbean in the context of an art school in the Netherlands.

Latin America is often understood as a conglomerate of similar languages and/or geographies located south of the United States. However, this definition excludes the historical and cultural complexity of each country, focusing on the perception of Latin by a western, colonialist perspective.

What glues Latin America as such, beyond language and territory, is the shared experience of societies dissident from the global north, scarred by colonial violence. We recognize that colonialism hasn’t stopped but just transformed and continues.

To be Latin American today is to be a walking paradigm, questioning our past, being unsettled about the present, and hoping for a future.

The LACU aims to be a platform to rethink ways of resistance through decentralizing knowledge as a form of recognition, and create a community of care.

Past
Latin American & Carribean Union
Fri
10 Dec
2021
I Saw It By Ear

15:00-17:00 @ Rozenstraat 59

Latin American & Carribean Union
Thu
2 Dec
2021
LATINXS & CARIBBEANS

@ Sandberg Kitchen, 3rd floor BC building

Latin American & Carribean Union
Wed
3 Nov
2021
Dia de muertos - Communal offering at the Rietveld Pavilion

You are welcome to participate in the communal build up of the ofrenda (offering) for the Day of the Dead.

Latin American & Carribean Union
Mon
25 Oct
2021
LACU OPEN CALL

Are you interested in joining the Latin American and Caribbean Union? Come come come to our first meeting of the year on Monday 25th of October at 12:00 room 230!

Latin American & Carribean Union
Fri
24 Sep
2021
Fonda

The Latin American and Caribbean Union invites you to reunite and meet in a group-made dinner, to share ideas for the upcoming year but most importantly to share good company and good food!

Latin American & Carribean Union
Mon
3 May
2021
Visita guiada online

...desde Museo Mac Chile.

Latin American & Carribean Union
Tue
27 Apr
2021
On role play and re-enactment /w Ana Maria Millan

In collaboration with Recipes for a Technological Undoing, an extracurricular program organized by Ladipo Famodu (Design Department), and the Latin American & Caribbean Union of Sandberg and Rietveld, we invite you to the first Lecture of the cycle "Squint", by Ana Maria Millan.

Latin American & Carribean Union
Fri
29 Jan
2021
Live Cooking

Arroz a la mexicana by LACU

Live for Rietveld Open Day

Latin American & Carribean Union
Tue
26 Nov
2019
The Inner Life of Exterior Plants

A film by Juan Arturo garcia, screening + close reading at the Rietveld Pavilion, from 17:00

Latin American & Carribean Union
Wed
6 Nov
2019
Where does it start? Where do I end?

Join the game, pass the orange at the Rietveld Pavilion , 17:00pm November 6th. Video Installation and experimental togetherness

Latin American & Carribean Union
Mon
28 Oct
2019
Mestizaje Ch’ixi: Being and inhabiting two worlds

Ch’ixi it’s an indigenous metaphoric concept from South America which is the color that appears by placing next to each other two different colors.
Ch'ixis entities are presented as powerful because they are undetermined, because they are not white or black, are both at the same time.
Mestizaje Ch’ixi would be a reflection on the reconciling posture on different intelligences and cognitive powers.
All of these formulated by following studies of the Bolivian feminist, sociologist historian and subaltern theorist, Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui (1949).

Latin American & Carribean Union
Wed
11 Sep
2019
LET'S START A CONVERSATION!

¡ǝɹǝɥʇ ʎǝH
The LCU is having the 1st meeting of the year this Wednesday in the Glass Pavilion at 15:00! Let's all meet and share! We will talk about matters we'd like to talk about during the course of the year, project proposals, people we'd like to invite over for table talks, parties, younaaaaaameit! See you there!

Latin American & Carribean Union
Tue
21 May
2019
ROMA screening

HOLA!!! We're screening ROMA, by Alfonso Cuaron!!
When: TUESDAY, 21st of May, at 3:00 PM
Where: FEDLEV AUDITORIUM

Coordinators/Organizers/Curators

Lauren Fong
Su Melo
Josefina Gilardi
Catalina Reyes
Mariana Jurado Rico
Clara Ines Aramburo Torres
Marian Rosa van Bodegraven
Marisa Esther Torres Rodríguez
Michelle Mildenberg Lara

Further information
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Keywords

student support, decolonisation, eurocentrism

← Latin American & Carribean Union
LET'S START A CONVERSATION!
Wed
11 Sep
2019

¡ǝɹǝɥʇ ʎǝH
The LCU is having the 1st meeting of the year this Wednesday in the Glass Pavilion at 15:00! Let's all meet and share! We will talk about matters we'd like to talk about during the course of the year, project proposals, people we'd like to invite over for table talks, parties, younaaaaaameit! See you there!

ABOUT US:

/ .The LCU is an initiative within Rietveld and Sandberg aiming to rebuild the space we hold within the school by nurturing our mixed community of students with a more inclusive and diverse approach. /

/ .By un-learning the common knowledge and perspectives and challenging the predominant narratives our goal is to include those who are currently not being represented, therefore welcoming dissident voices and nurturing comunity amongst students from diverse backgrounds. /

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