CREISCHER, Alice; SIEKMANN, Andreas (eds.)
Potosí Principle Archive
The Potosí Principle Archive is a collection of historical and contemporary sources, interviews, essays, poems, manifestos and images.
It is intended as a complement and continuation of the exhibition project Principio Potosí, which was shown in 2010 at the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid and the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, and in 2011 at the Museo Nacional de Arte and Museo Nacional de Etnografía y Folklore in La Paz.
The term Potosí Principle refers to the persistence of the extractivist logic that began with the conquest of South America until now.
The exhibition discussed this through the colonial baroque images and their response by contemporary artists. It became a milestone in the postcolonial questioning of the origin of modernity and the function of art in it.
The archive continues this theme. It consists of 36 booklets grouped into four volumes. Its themes are: Extractivism, Labour, Debt, Inquisition, Machine Capitalism, Decolonization Practices, and Artistic Doing.
Published on occasion of the project ‘Principio Potosí Archive’, curated by artists’ Alice Creischer and Andreas Siekmann, which toured to the following venues: Haus de Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (27 May – 11 Jul 2021); Kunstraum der Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (16 Jan – 13 Feb 2022); Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne (8 Apr – 17 Jul 2022).
This publication consists of 4 volumes in a slipcase.
With Sonia Abián, Edgar Arandia, Elvira Espejo Ayca, John Barker, Christian v. Borries, Matthijs de Bruijne, George Caffentzis, Roberto Choque Canqui, Anthony Davies, Chto Delat, Ines Doujak, Silvia Federici, Leon Ferrari, Maria Galindo, Isaias Grinolo, Max Jorge Hinderer, Cultural Worker Coalition against the Humboldtforum, Pujan Karambeigi, Gabriela Massuh, Philip Mirowski, Eduardo Molinari, Victor Montoya, Tobias Morawski, Stephan Mörsch, German Muruchi Poma, Sergio Raimondi, Edgar Huracán Ramírez, David Riff, Pedro G. Romero, Mafe Moscoso Rosero, Konstanze Schmitt, Robert Sieland, Laura Vallés Vílchez.
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Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2022
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