Catalina Delgado Rojas
Creativity in Liberation & Solidarity: Transforming Hurtful Representations of the Global Majority in Creative Anti-racist Campaigns
Catalina is a Colombian ECR and Cultural Practitioner with experience in community engagement, museum mediation and research dissemination. She works with artists,
cultural practitioners, museum mediators, and researchers to develop creative
engagement activities that address complex topics, build capacities, and encourage
solidarity.
She is interested in symbolic reparations and creative interventions as a response to
reparation claims. During her doctoral studies in Museology, she designed a
methodological framework and assessment tool for communities and cultural practitioners to evaluate possible creative initiatives with a symbolic reparation and
community-centred approach. The research findings provided new insights into
developing institutional and collaborative processes to ensure the centrality of
communities and equitable museum practices.
Throughout her experience as an international student, queer woman, and racialised
migrant, she developed an awareness of the urgency of encouraging cultural and
academic institutions to raise awareness of racial inequalities and Global Majority
histories. The various formats of the AIU collection (anti-racist campaigns, research
reports, oral testimonies, education kits, etc.) provide a very enriching opportunity to
reflect on how anti-racist initiatives can offer reparations by helping us rethink and
reengage with the archive.
Catalina is looking forward to working at the AIU RACE Centre with the Team, she
says it will be an incredible opportunity to reflect with AIURC cultural practitioners,
John Rylands exhibitions, public engagement staff, and anti-racist community activists about digital and creative interventions to reactivate collections, build capacities among communities and create inclusive and ethical archival procedures to guarantee equal opportunities and continue building the anti-racist archive.