“Aesthetics of Displacement offers profound explorations of Afro-Colombian experiences through the lenses of dance, displacement, and decolonial frameworks. Blanco Borelli presents a groundbreaking archive of performances, images, and documentaries that extend beyond the specificity of dance. It is the kind of work that deserves recognition as it brings together performance art, Afro and Indigenous cultural identities, digital humanities, and archival studies.”

“Aesthetics of Displacement makes a significant contribution to the performance studies field by centering Black and Indigenous worldmaking and knowledge in South America. Melissa Blanco Borelli bridges the gap between Latin American scholars and scholars from the US and the global North by putting their work in conversation with one other. This rich, well-written book is grounded in fieldwork, history, and critical analysis, placing it on the cutting edge of the field.”

“In this book, Blanco Borelli shifts from violentology to resilience, showing how Colombia’s Afro and Indigenous artists respond to colonial harm through performance, vivir sabroso, and more-than-human worlds. A field-shifting contribution and a vital, decolonial rethinking of memory, justice, and survival, that turns dance into a grammar of survival, resistance, and conviviality under oppression.”