Colectivo Ayllu is a collaborative research and artistic-political action group formed by migrants, people of colour and queer and sexual-gender dissidents from the ex-Spanish colonies. The collective proposes a critique of white supremacy and European colonial heteronormative ideology.
By disjointing acts of listening from the ear and its particular arrangement of time, Sonic Continuum proposes a shift from representation to expression and asks: can sound restitute failures to listen? How might we listen to time affectively? What auditory imaginaries and possible futures can listening unfold?
In this chapter ‘Hemos escrito con sangre la historia de Colón’ from the film ‘Nuestro Juramento’ (2022), Colectivo Ayllu takes us on a journey from the seashore to various monuments through which they draw upon long memories of colonial pain and contemporary realities of violence. The film invites us to go through spaces of pain…