Mingas de la imagen

Spanish Site

What is Mingas de la Imagen about?

In the Andes, mingas are works of "exchange of hands and labor," and constructive community collaboration. Our Mingas de la Imagen consist of meetings, meals, conversations, collaborative work, and workshops on intercultural co-creation.

The Mingas de la Imagen are taking place for years in several countries with diverse native communities in spaces of intergenerational, relational, and interdisciplinary solidarity. Based on intercultural dialogues. Mainly generated from the Center for Ecocritical and Intercultural Studies (CEI) of the Literature Department, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (PUJ), Bogotá, and The Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) at Duke University.

Mingas de la Imagen seeks to make our artistic potentialities effective through conversation, cooperation, and collective construction among diverse registers, languages, art practices, spiritualities, beliefs, and knowledge.

In minga and in solidarity we stand, we share, we build, and create together.

"Talk to anyone

but be careful:

don't become another one".

Humberto Ak´abal

Intercultural

conversations

Photo gallery

Mingas de la Imagen is associated with the Center for Ecocritical and Intercultural Studies (CEI) of the Literature Department, Universidad Javeriana. The CEI permanently organizes: 1) Intercultural education workshops 2) Joint formative experiences through support generated in coordination with the Program of Inclusion and Diversity and the Faculty of Social Sciences of the PUJ 3) Publications and intercultural conversations with indigenous leaders, intellectuals, scholars, artists, and indigenous critics from different regions of Colombia and Abiayala.

VISUAL AUTONOMY. Exercises of Creative Sovereignty

Visit this new page, showing this important work with visual artists from multiple indigenous nations of Abya Yala.

Cornelio Campos (Purepecha, Mexico-USA). Sovereign Cheran. 2018. Acritical on canvas. Visual Sovereignty. Exhibition hall. Javeriana University. 2018.

Cornelio Campos (Purepecha, Mexico-USA). Meseta Purepecha, 2018, 152x91cms. Acrylic on canvas. Visual Sovereignty. Exhibition hall. Javeriana University. 2018.

Cornelio Campos (Purepecha, Mexico-USA). Double-headed Snake, 2014, 50x60cms. Acrylic on canvas. Petate, 2014, 50x60cms. Acrylic on canvas. Visual Sovereignty. Exhibition hall. Javeriana University. 2018.