Eternal Life

19.09.2016 - 12.12.2016

A move towards secularization–the minimization of the presence of religion in public life, has been driven by many modernizing governments and regimes during the 20th century. For many, religion remains the main explanation of worldly phenomena and institutional and familial logic, and its influence is usually persistent in the most intimate behaviors. However, lately religion has been portrayed in Western media as a source of violence and intolerance–forgoing its conciliatory role.

What is known as the “ontological turn” in contemporary anthropology is part of a pursuit to deconstruct the metaphysics and relativism underlying the very questions asked by the humanities about knowledge production and spirituality. Current work in social sciences, technology studies, science and the arts have continued to reshape the idea of spirituality by troubling Western canons, establishing a dialogue with manifold cosmologies to better understand the ways we can relate to the non human and the inhuman.

In Eternal Life, Terremoto seeks to explore accounts linked to the mystical, the spiritual, the carnal, and the incarnate in relation to the arts, but also within a broader cultural spectrum. Through such examination we move to reconcile desire with the awareness of sharing this earth and perhaps, the entire unbound universe, with other life forms and entities.

7 2016

19.09.2016

Issue 7: Eternal Life

Saskia Calderón, Nabil Ahmed, Manuela Moscoso

Inside Out

Nabil Ahmed y Manuela Moscoso en conversación alegórica acerca de la obra de Saskia Calderón.

7 2016

26.09.2016

Issue 7: Eternal Life

Daniel Garza Usabiaga

David Alfaro Siqueiros' Cristo de la paz (1970): Realist painting and religious art in post-war Mexico

Daniel Garza Usabiaga analyzes the ideological dimension of religious representation in the painting Cristo de la paz (1970) by David Alfaro Siqueiros

7 2016

03.10.2016

Issue 7: Eternal Life

Libidiunga Cardoso, Tobi Maier

Libidiunga Cardoso in conversation with Tobi Maier

Rio de Janeiro-based artist Libidiunga Cardoso (1975, M’Boigy, Brasil) moves through an ambiguous territory between academic discourse and fiction, aiming to present formal translations of historical narratives, with a special interest in Latin America.

7 2016

10.10.2016

Issue 7: Eternal Life

Myriam Ben Salah, Martha Kirszenbaum

Scheherazade Goes West: on fractured identities, vernacular disorientalism and popular culture of the Middle East

Martha Kirszenbaum and Myriam Ben Salah navigate shifting East/West political contexts, gender and religious identities, and curatorial practices versus personal experiences.

7 2016

17.10.2016

Issue 7: Eternal Life

Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld, Ashkan Sepahvand

Dia Gnosis

Ashkan Sepahvand stages an oracular reading of the chemical and metaphysical elements present in Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld’s work.

7 2016

24.10.2016

Issue 7: Eternal Life

Juliana Ossa

Divine Authors: Mystical Women Writers

Juliana Ossa traces a genealogy of Western feminine religious mysticism, focusing on Francisca de los Angeles (1674 – 1744) of Querétaro, Mexico, to observe her spiritual and intellectual practice as a space of feminine emancipation

7 2016

31.10.2016

Issue 7: Eternal Life

François Bucher, Natalia Valencia

Forms of contact: François Bucher

Natalia Valencia looks at François Bucher’s recent work and its relation to anthropological research and technology.

7 2016

07.11.2016

Issue 7: Eternal Life

Adriana Minoliti, Eduardo Basualdo, Dorothée Dupuis

Refusing salvation

Dorothée Dupuis, Adriana Minoliti and Eduardo Basualdo discuss art’s ability to encapsulate the metaphysics of our time -in spite of not being able to save the world.

7 2016

21.11.2016

Issue 7: Eternal Life

Fanny Drugeon

The Skin of Things: Looking at The Menil Collection in Houston

Fanny Drugeon looks at Dominique de Menil’s religious vocation and its impact on her collection.

7 2016

05.12.2016

Issue 7: Eternal Life

Irmgard Emmelhainz

Express Takeover of Santa Fe Mall in Mexico City ends with casualties

Larger issues at stake brought to light by action censored in mainstream coverage.

7 2016

12.12.2016

Issue 7: Eternal Life

Trajal Harrell, Xavier Acarín

Where tears come from

Xavier Acarín and Trajal Harrell discuss the multiple performance traditions that inform Harrell’s dance practice.

Issue 7

Eternal Life

Inside Out

David Alfaro Siqueiros' Cristo de la paz (1970): Realist painting and religious art in post-war Mexico

Libidiunga Cardoso in conversation with Tobi Maier

Scheherazade Goes West: on fractured identities, vernacular disorientalism and popular culture of the Middle East

Dia Gnosis

Divine Authors: Mystical Women Writers

Forms of contact: François Bucher

Refusing salvation

Taming the Dancing Table: Post-humanist ethics in the age of hyper-capitalist spectacle. A conversation with Noah Simblist, Carol Zou, Andy Campbell and Chelsea Weathers.

The Skin of Things: Looking at The Menil Collection in Houston

The end of the world arrived in my neighbourhood

Express Takeover of Santa Fe Mall in Mexico City ends with casualties

Where tears come from

Issue 7

Eternal Life

Inside Out

David Alfaro Siqueiros' Cristo de la paz (1970): Realist painting and religious art in post-war Mexico

Libidiunga Cardoso in conversation with Tobi Maier

Scheherazade Goes West: on fractured identities, vernacular disorientalism and popular culture of the Middle East

Dia Gnosis

Divine Authors: Mystical Women Writers

Forms of contact: François Bucher

Refusing salvation

Taming the Dancing Table: Post-humanist ethics in the age of hyper-capitalist spectacle. A conversation with Noah Simblist, Carol Zou, Andy Campbell and Chelsea Weathers.

The Skin of Things: Looking at The Menil Collection in Houston

The end of the world arrived in my neighbourhood

Express Takeover of Santa Fe Mall in Mexico City ends with casualties

Where tears come from

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