Terremoto is a nonprofit organization dedicated to the production and circulation of critical thought around contemporary art in the Americas. Its work is grounded in anti-patriarchal and anti-colonial perspectives, supporting underrepresented and emerging artistic, curatorial, and editorial practices, with a particular commitment to queer, Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and other historically marginalized voices.

In response to the lack of cultural infrastructure across the region, Terremoto develops publishing platforms, funded programs, and residencies that seek to create concrete conditions for artists and art workers to develop their practices and expand their networks, while fostering spaces for knowledge exchange, research, and artistic production.

Terremoto currently has two programs:

Terremoto Magazine, a digital and print publishing platform that brings together voices and perspectives from different territories across the Americas; and Travesías Terremoto, a nomadic research residency program for artists from Latin America and the Caribbean that explores the tensions, memories, and imaginaries that shape the continent.

We defend writing and visual culture as strategies to mobilize thought stemming from a diversity of voices. We uphold spaces for complicity, complexity, dialogue, and discernment. We incite self-archaeology to approach the points that enable connection between dreams, struggle, and the praxis of world-making.  We create channels for experimentation and improvisation within the realm of imagination. We traverse our region through colonized sensitivities, affections, desires, and shared mourning. We conspire presents that build memories and tested possibilities from a collective standpoint. We reimagine aesthetics to share tools. We believe in fair practices, in the remuneration, resignification, and re-dignification of editorial work and artistic practices. We foster discursive and collaborative links among the various latitudes that compose the continent, beyond borders imposed through brutality and cruelty. More than certainties, we are interested in constructing provocations.

Terremoto has consolidated various content sections through multiple editorial voices, including Natalia Valencia, Diego del Valle Ríos, and Duen Sacchi, who have served as editors-in-chief, under the direction of Dorothée Dupuis (2014–2022).