FABIAN VILLEGAS
ABOUT FABIAN VILLEGAS
Writer, journalist, spoken word artist, scholar and researcher in South epistemologies, anticolonial thoughts and racial studies. Since 2007 to date, Fabian Villegas has been invited to give multiple conferences, seminars, lectures and workshops in various universities and academic centers, renowned art biennials and community cultural centers across the globe (México, Dominican Republic, France, Spain, Puerto Rico, Brasil, Uruguay, Argentina, Guatemala, Dubai, Costa Rica, U.S, Venezuela, Belice, Morocco, Lisbon. He is also the co-founder of Contranarrativas, a collaborative project that seeks to create horizontal knowledge production spaces to stimulate the visibility, dissemination and production of epistemologies, decolonial narratives and peripheral aesthetics of the Global South. Born in Mexico City, Villegas currently resides in the Dominican Republic.
PROMINENT PRESENTATIONS + PUBLICATIONS
Arle Festival, Francia, 2021
14th Sharjah Art Biennial, United Arab Emirates 2019
International Poetry Festival of Costa Rica, Costa Rica 2015
Festival Emergências, Brasil 2015
International Book Fair, Guadalajara, México 2016
“Mascarada, corpo-políticas y lenguajes de madera”, published by International Poetry Festival of Costa Rica, 2015
“En blanco y prieto: Itinerario geopolítico de la decolonialidad” published by Nuestra Labia, 2014
BODY OF WORK
Geopolitics, decolonial thoughts, race studies, intersectionality, postcolonial narratives and representations, global south, art curation, and testimonial literature are fundamental topics addressed in his body of work.
LECTURES & PANELS:
Latin Americanity: Racial Identity, National Narratives and Colonial Imaginaries
Decoloniality And Global South: Diasporic Cartography of Racialized Epistemologies
Demystifying The Meta-Narrative of The Mestizo: Cultural Sovereignty, Political Imagination, and Racial Paradoxes
Latin America And The Caribbean: Circumstances, Regional Scenario And Social Movements.
SEMINARS:
Decolonial Epistemologies, Raciality and Cartography of Consciousness.
Seismology: Epistemic Extraction, Geopolitics of Knowledge and Cultural Sovereignty.
WORKSHOPS:
Mapping The Loss: Postcolonial Trauma, Ecology Of Knowledge and Recovery of Historical Memory
Counterhegemony and Other Corpus-Oralities: Spoken Word & Storytelling.
Inhabiting the Border: Masculinities, Race and Testimonial Literature
PERFORMANCES:
Spoken Word
Storytelling Performances
MORE INFORMATION & BOOKING
Instagram: @Fabianvillegas1
Twitter: @Fabianvillegas1