A conversation with Lausan.
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LAUSAN COLLECTIVE is a group of writers, translators, artists, and organizers who are seeking to build transnational left solidarity and ways of life beyond the dictates of capitalism and the state by holding multiple imperialisms to account. Formed out of the Hong Kong protests in 2019, Lausan is interested in taking a long view of “art and protest” in association with and despite canonical anti-establishment movements. Dismantling the visuality and governmentality of colonial capital and multi-imperial domination demands a closer look at how anticolonial action, class struggle, international solidarity, and decolonial politics produce particular modes of seeing and making under escalating conditions of state violence. Are these forms, medias, and tactics of agitation simply reactions to and remnants of political transformation, and how might they themselves shape discrepant histories beyond the bounds of mainstream movements? Lausan believes a radical imagination of Hong Kong’s future must center cross-border solidarity based on class struggle, migrant justice, anti-racism, and feminism.
Sponsored by Beinecke Library, the Postwar Culture Working Group, and the Whitney Humanities Center. For more information about the ART & PROTEST SERIES or to join the mailing list, write to kevin.repp@yale.edu.