19.06.2017 - 18.09.2017
Co-edited with Fernanda Brenner
In 1985, British movie director Terry Gilliam releases Brazil, a free adaptation of George Orwell’s novel 1984 (currently hitting again best-seller list in the USA). Borrowing its title from Ary Barroso’s song Brazil, after Gilliam allegedly heard it while scouting in a horrible small industrial town in the north of England, the movie is a fable about humanity’s alienation in contemporary bureaucratic and capitalist systems, and affirms the power of imagination, dream, and affect as potential tools of resistance and escape in a surrealistic, post-Monty Python tone.
2017: in Brazil, the repercussion of “Lava Jato Operation” now infiltrates all layers of the Brazilian upper class and beyond, and will likely force Michel Temer, Brazil’s coup-monger president, to move out of the presidential house imminently, and this time, not because of alleged ghosts. The “Brazilian Miracle” is definitely outdated, and the major non-Hispanic country of Latin America is experiencing the worst political and institutional crisis of its history. On the other hand, a national council of Mexican indigenous groups backed by the Zapatista rebels just selected Maria de Jésus Patricio Martínez, a Nahua woman, as the country’s first indigenous presidential candidate. This as Mexico is said to enter the world’s 10 largest economies in the next few years, dangerously challenging its northern neighbor, for better or for worse.
Cards are shuffling quickly in the Americas and it seems that what we once expected from the north or the south might soon not matter anymore. Could it be time to reconsider our origins, to invent a new future, to finally get rid of our displaced modern ambitions and appropriate critically the performance of the exotic that cursed us for so long? In this issue of Terremoto, we will talk about places which don’t really exist as such, identities traded for others, landscapes that imprison us or, on the contrary, set us free, trying to set our landmarks aside as we look for a path towards new forms of consilience.
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9 2017
19.06.2017
Issue 9: After Brazil
Venezuelan anonymous authors
The following anonymous text, signed by the names of those who chavism has taken their lives, reflects about how authorship in the regime articulates and legitimates a ravenous inhumanism.
9 2017
26.06.2017
Issue 9: After Brazil
Tiago Carneiro da Cunha, Fernanda Brenner
From the work of Tiago Carneiro da Cunha, Fernanda Brenner reflects on parody as an element with the ability to subvert the clichés of Brazilian and Latin American exoticism.
9 2017
03.07.2017
Issue 9: After Brazil
Hank Willis Thomas, Modou Dieng, Devon Van Houten Maldonado
Writer Devon Van Houten Maldonado speaks with curator Modou Dieng and artist Hank Willis Thomas about identity, race, migration and globalization from an afro descendant perspective.
9 2017
10.07.2017
Issue 9: After Brazil
Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino
Anthropologist Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino writes about two Amerindian myths which illustrate the reason behind the destructive force of colonizing modernism.
9 2017
17.07.2017
Issue 9: After Brazil
Cecilia Vicuña, Carolina Castro Jorquera
A reflection across the work of Cecilia Vicuña on the meaning of being indigenous and the questioning of the colonialist gaze that has conditioned the relationship with our natural and race roots.
9 2017
24.07.2017
Issue 9: After Brazil
Gabriel Mejía Abad
A “speech/collage” about happiness as a common ideal built with phrases from the movie ‘Brazil’ (1985), words by leaders of political movements in twentieth century, suggestions by European travelers in South America, as well as words by the Baron of Río Branco, the horoscope of the day and advice for prosperity, exercise and good posture.
9 2017
31.07.2017
Issue 9: After Brazil
Marilia Loureiro, Pedro Victor Brandão
Marilia Loureiro conversa con Pedro Brandão sobre su práctica artística la cual frecuentemente se intersecciona con plataformas y dispositivos políticos, económicos y sociales.
9 2017
07.08.2017
Issue 9: After Brazil
PDP (Public Display of Professionalism), Natalia Zuluaga
Natalia Zuluaga y Domingo Castillo Public Displays of Professionalism (PDP)
9 2017
14.08.2017
Issue 9: After Brazil
Bárbara Wagner, Ana Vaz, Luiz Roque, Cristiano Lenhardt, Benjamin de Burca, Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes
Maria do Carmo M. P. de Pontes and Ilê Sartuzi interview Brazilian artists and collectives about their video practice and the ideas behind their production.
9 2017
21.08.2017
Issue 9: After Brazil
Fabiola Torres-Alzaga, Paulina Ascencio
A conversation between Fabiola Torres-Alzaga and Paulina Ascencio questioning the limits of reality through the cinematographic image and magic tricks
9 2017
28.08.2017
Issue 9: After Brazil
César Segarra, Alberto García del Castillo, Susana Vargas Cervantes
In a letter to Alberto García del Castillo, Susana Vargas Cervantes reflects on “significant otherness” present in the journey that Alberto took through the Canals of Belgium in the company of merman Steev Lemercier, Chanel, and Dolce, who are a cat and a dog.
9 2017
04.09.2017
Issue 9: After Brazil
Veronica Stigger
Veronica Stigger writes from a historic perspective about the work of Brazilian artist Maria Martins to contextualize the identity behind her artistic production.