The Indianization of Globalization
- The Indianization of Globalization
This map merges English, Spanish, and French to produce a new cartography based on the meanings of the words “Indian” and “Indigenous.” Providing the foundation for our current processes of globalization, the map returns to the image of extreme ignorance and confusion experienced by Europeans during their arrival on the American Continent. As a future or contemporary world order implied by the renaming of the continents, however, the map also registers the epic growth of cultural and political power accomplished by the very populations that have been accurately and mistakenly defined by the idea of the “Indian” and the “Indigenous.” [End Page 12]
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The above map is part of an ongoing series begun with my components of the map series have been shown in several places, including
Mapping: Memory and Motion in Contemporary Art. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York. 3 October 2010–16 January, 2011. Curator: Sarah Tanguy.
Estéticas Decoloniales, November 9, 2010–December 15, 2010, Museum of Modern Art (MAMBO), Bogota, Colombia. Curator: Walter Mignolo.
Memorias Disruptivas: Tácticas para entrar y salir de los Bicentenarios de América Latina y el Caribe. November 30, 2010–December 1, 2010, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. Curators: Red Conceptualismos del Sur. Goldsmiths, University of London, London. July 8–12, 2010
Selected Works by Pedro Lasch. Galerie of Marseille, Marseille, France, March 6–April 18, 2009.
Latino/a America: The New York & North Carolina Suites, Branch Gallery, Durham, NC. January 16–February 28, 2009.
Open Routines: Recent Works by Pedro Lasch, Queens Museum of Art, New York. March 12th–July 9th, 2006. [End Page 13]
Pedro Lasch, plasch@duke.edu, was born and raised in Mexico City. Since 1994, he divides his time between Durham, where he teaches art, art theory, and visual studies at Duke University, and New York, where he leads on-going projects with immigrant communities and art collectives, such as 16 Beaver Group. His solo exhibitions include Open Routines/Rutinas Abiertas (Queens Museum of Art, 2006) and Black Mirror/Espejo Negro (Nasher Museum of Art, 2008); his projects have also been presented at Baltimore Museum of Art, Walker Art Center, MASS MoCA (U.S.A.), Baltic: The Centre for Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art (U.K.), Museo de Arte Reina Sofía (Spain), Centro Nacional de las Artes (Mexico), The Singapore Art Museum (Singapore), the Gwangju Biennial (South Korea), as well as the AND AND AND platform of Documenta 13 (Germany). A selection of his works can be found at http://www.pedrolasch.com/.
