Feb 21 at Casa do Comum, in Lisbon: Tânia Neves invites Pedro Coquenão (BATIDA) to reflect on how colonial heritage continues to show up in contemporary society, through culture, travel and artistic practice.
Decolonising the mind is a process.
Often, unconsciously and even naively, inherited and repeated narratives go unquestioned. These narratives shape how we look at territories, cultures and people — and how that gaze is received by others. What impact does this have on the way we travel, the music we consume, the culture and the spaces we share?
We talk about identity and we talk about power. About how Euro-centred thinking influences imaginaries, tastes and hierarchies. About the intersections between history, cultural representation and personal experience, where tensions between past and present, centre and margin, belonging and exclusion become visible.
Starting from music, art and lived paths, the conversation opens space to think about (anti)colonial positioning in our everyday practices: what reproduces logics of appropriation and inequality — and what can instead become a tool for closeness, listening and breaking down barriers.
A conversation that asks, directly: to what extent do we still carry a colonised mind?
