Positions - Mahika Gautam - Roll down your banners, take down your flags

Roll down your banners, take down your flags

Mahika Gautam

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Exterior of Canada Pavilion with Stop the Sweeps Hoarding. Photograph by Maris Mezulis.  

Positions
August 2023










Notes
1

bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom (London: Routledge, 1994).

2

See "The Indian Act, 1876."

3

Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (London: Zed Books, 2012), 48.

This essay was commissioned as part of a collaboration between e-flux Architecture and alumni from the fourth cohort of New Architecture Writers to publish reviews of the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale and Lesley Lokko's 18th International Architecture Exhibition, "The Laboratory of the Future."