Over Wooden Planks: Sounding Colonial Inheritance, Engaging Material and Affective Ecologies

Abstract This article emerges from a practice-based doctoral research project that critically engages with colonial history through the inheritance of a listed house in southern Brazil, proposing personal heritage as an epistemological stance. It investigates how decolonial, feminist, and multispecies perspectives can inform the study of material culture and coloniality. Employing decolonial listening and affective writing as methods, the research explores the polyphonic sonic and material environments of the house, emphasizing the South American Global South as a critical orientation. The first part shares embodied interactions with colonial heritage, while the second narrates the house's historical materiality with theoretical references, interweaving images from the 1980s and the present to reflect on its materiality.