03.05.2021 - 19.07.2021
“How are you?” A simple question that we usually answer with: “Good, and you?”, an automatic response that cuts short the possibility of stopping and recognizing the vulnerability of the body before our interlocutors. “Good”: a hesitation that swings between pessimism and optimism, prompting answers in the form of short phrases, emojis, stickers, or GIFs that encapsulate the communication of feelings, emotions, and memories that the body holds and that tickle our desire for something different. “And you?”: a hopeful exercise to know that we are accompanied in our search for joy. Throbbing bodies know that other forms of existence are possible.
“How are you?” I am good because I wish to set fire to the configuration of this world. The malaise, (re)inscribed on living surfaces like a sort of palimpsest, forces us to ask ourselves again about strength and the limits of what is possible. At a time when what we want more than ever is “normality,” which distances us from a collective sense of urgency in favor of a radical change in society, how does malaise reverberate in the body/land? On the other hand, we wonder, what are the implications of the necessary processes of reparation in the face of suffering that oscillates between eugenics, exploitation, and extractivism? “Broken,” “abnormal,” and untamable existences have intuitively traced forms of care, resistance, healing, and transmutation. What lessons will we have to remember in order to reinforce our self-defense against the ableist logic surrounding the “healthy and productive body” in the cis-heteropatriarchal and racist framework of this end of the world?
In this issue of Terremoto, we want to bring together reflections around all that we somaticize in regard to trauma, illness, and death—without it meaning the end of life. Through artistic practices that we believe are guided by what Gladys Tzul Tzul recognizes as the “desire for life,” we seek to pose questions about what it means to recalibrate the idea of collective care in order to affirm joy and movement that, among the individual and the collective, allow us to oppose the logic of extermination.
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01.05.2021
Issue 20: How Are You? body, identity
Pedro Marrero
Looking back, artist Pedro Marerro identifies milestones in art history and pop culture that contributed to the negotiation of his identity as a male individual with motor disabilities in the face of stereotyped and almost nonexistent representation of “other” corporalities.
20 2021
10.05.2021
Issue 20: How Are You? body
Francisco Lemus
The curator Francisco Lemus reviews the artistic practices that arose during the nineties with the arrival of HIV/AIDS in Argentina, which posed questions about life and death that are worth remembering given the vulnerability of the present.
20 2021
17.05.2021
Issue 20: How Are You? performance, transfeminismo
Yolanda Benalba, Liz Misterio
Artist and researcher Liz Misterio interviews artist Yolanda Benalba about two of her recent artworks that expand on transfeminist ethics making way for collective listening and political organization of sexual and gender dissidence.
20 2021
24.05.2021
Issue 20: How Are You?
Sarah Schulman, Anuradha Vikram
Curator Anuradha Vikram and writer Sarah Schulman complicate the moral logic that conditions situations of conflict to give us hints about what it means to collectively transform our reality beyond the abuse of power.
20 2021
31.05.2021
Issue 20: How Are You?
AFROntera
By way of rupture, AFROntera—the borderland, afro, mestizo, and anti¬colonial collective—proposes to vindicate identity as a strategy and political position and not as an end, against all essentialism and betting on revolutionary love and radical sincerity.
20 2021
07.06.2021
Issue 20: How Are You?
Jenny Granado a.k.a. Kebra a.k.a. Maldita GeniThalia
Through a call to recognize ourselves in a non-binary space starting from our asshole in motion, artist Jenny Granado, a.k.a. Maldita Geni Thalia, questions the current denial of the end of a world to delve into the vital momentum that lies within mutual care and self-defense.
20 2021
14.06.2021
Issue 20: How Are You?
Miguel Imbaquingo (Tawna cine desde territorio)
Miguel Imbaquingo, co-founder of Tawna Films, reflects on the colonial gaze that has left its mark on the memory of the Ecuadorian Amazonian peoples and on the little resemblance to their reality. He thus proposes using the seventh art for the region to produce their own cinema as one more way of self-determination.
20 2021
21.06.2021
Issue 20: How Are You?
Holly Bynoe
Curator and spiritist Holly Bynoe reflects on the expansion of Obeah, a belief system of the Caribbean Black communities, and its relationship with women and their ancestral heritage to continue exercising care in the face of colonial extermination.
20 2021
28.06.2021
Issue 20: How Are You?
Ventura Profana, Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro
Gathered by their belief in transmutation as disobedience, the artist Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro and the interdisciplinary performer and pastor Ventura Profana converse about the faith that allows recognizing routes of escape.
20 2021
05.07.2021
Issue 20: How Are You?
Liliana Angulo Cortés, David Gutiérrez Castañeda
As a tribute to land rights defender Don Temístocles Machado, researcher David Gutiérrez and artist Liliana Angulo Cortés share with us the living memory of a community that resists the developmentalist and ecocidal imposition of the Colombian government.
20 2021
12.07.2021
Issue 20: How Are You?
Anamaría Garzón Mantilla
Researcher Anamaría Garzón Mantilla reflects on the omission of the different states of migration in the history of Ecuador through the work of artists Eli Farinango and Sonia Guiñansaca, opening up sensitive encounters that go beyond the obtuse logic of borders.
20 2021
19.07.2021
Issue 20: How Are You?
Tanya Aguiñiga, Guadalupe Maravilla
Finding a relationship between their experiences and their respective artistic practices, the artists Guadalupe Maravilla and Tanya Aguiñiga, from New York and Tijuana respectively, talk about what it means to get involved in healing processes of communities affected by the violence inherent to the border between Mexico and the United States.
