In this workshop, Amargo and Inês Costa invite the general public, families, and children to dive into the universe of independent publications, more specifically fanzines, to critically and artistically reflect on the repercussions of colonialism in Portugal and the world. Through collage, drawing, writing, and graphic experimentation, each participant can contribute to the construction of a decolonial fanzine, where we will question the idea of "discoveries" and provoke discussion about the colonial past, speaking also of some figures of resistance and events that will help us to expand the narratives we grow up with. The result will be a collaborative fanzine that you can take home at the end, and that will later be added to the Anticolonial Children’s Travelling Library developed by Sismógrafo, following the FIU prototype of the Santa Mònica Art Center.

This session is part of the parallel programme of the exhibition Prototypes of insituting desire. Santa Mònica to Sismógrafo, curated by Clara Laguillo.

This proposal gathers inspiration from the prototype Comunicació interna by the communication guild of Santa Mònica (Lara Martínez, Ángela Palacios and Anna Vilamú Bosch). Las Mòniques, artists-in-residence at the Santa Mònica Art Centre who experiment in the relational or participatory sphere in a collective and transdisciplinary way, organized into seven guilds: communication, digitalization, editing, education, spaces, gastronomy and participation. Selected annually by public call, they develop prototypes of artistic mediation devices to open up the centre’s content, discourses and questions to diverse audiences.