02.11.2020 - 08.03.2021
Edited in collaboration with Jo Ying Peng
We inhabit geographies that are the result of the incessant flows and rhythms of those dialogues that the oceans, storms, volcanoes, and earthquakes have sustained for millions of years. Our existence is immersed in cycles of endless symbiotic exchanges; geopoetics: vital languages that contain a palimpsest that records the traces of multiple inhabitants in reciprocity and correspondence. In spite of this, we are conditioned to a decaying world that makes its way through compulsive separation: space/time, body/mind/soul, past/present/future, human/nature, civilization/barbarism, North/South, I/others: modern-colonial logic that has hijacked and conditioned the possibility of the Other, in order to maintain a system of division, extraction, and exploitation. What sensible paths will allow an ethics to achieve a world where many worlds fit?
In this issue of Terremoto, we want to spark deep conversations about being together and being different in the context of South-South exchanges between previously colonized countries. Evoking the Ring of Fire that relates Southeast Asia and South America, we place ourselves in a particular geopoetic connection through that ocean that, contrary to the colonial view that named it a peaceful body of water, is in constant movement. Among the waves of the Pacific Ocean, wisdom and knowledge reverberate; premonitions of the possible: a world where the Earth heals because our communities are healed as a result of planetary solidarity. What are the possible paths of resistance and places of refuge in the face of the destruction of the planet? What role do artistic thinking and practices play in this?
Serving here as an editorial provocation, the idea of planetary solidarity seeks to combine critical-reflective approaches on friendship, the common, community and the collective, alliances, and complicities to recognize ourselves in our actions against systems of oppression in their specific forms according to our own particular contexts. What are the consequences of modernity and colonialism that affect our communities’ sensitive relationships with the planet? How to rethink what is understood as difference? In what ways do we recognize ourselves as others? How do artistic practices cooperate in restoring a sensibility beyond-the-human?
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19 2020
03.11.2020
Issue 19: Planetary Solidarity ancestrality
Daniel Lie, Juliana Dos Santos
Artists Daniel Lie and Juliana Dos Santos talk about Daniel’s search for their ancestry in Indonesia, the country of origin of their artist grandparents who migrated to Brazil in the 1960s, to reflect on the South-to-South relationship between both latitudes and the diasporic bond between them.
19 2020
09.11.2020
Issue 19: Planetary Solidarity utopías
Comunidad Catrileo+Carrión
As a call for other ways of living beyond the heteropatriarchal regime, Comunidad Catrileo+Carrión draws poetics to imagine epupillan utopias, tides of planetary solidarity that go beyond the binary.
19 2020
16.11.2020
Issue 19: Planetary Solidarity archive, body, language
Ana García Jácome, Jacobo Zambrano-Rangel, Minh Nguyen
In conversation with the artist and researcher Ana García Jácome, writer Minh Nguyen and artist Jacobo Zambrano-Rangel discuss Jácome’s practice, the social construction of disability, comparative disability studies in México and abroad, reconceiving its historical and present-day conditions through art, and the possibility of solidarity across difference.
19 2020
23.11.2020
Issue 19: Planetary Solidarity Memory
Andrea Fam
In today’s climate of globalizing polarisation, curator Andrea Fam revisits Khmer artist, Vandy Rattana’s Monologue Trilogy which provides a timely reminder of our anthropological propensity to historical amnesia, and resilience.
19 2020
30.11.2020
Issue 19: Planetary Solidarity
Irwan Ahmett & Tita Salina
Amidst the ongoing pandemic in Indonesia, artists Irwan Ahmett and Tita Salina deepen their relations with fear by utilizing gravitation and eleven artifacts collected over the last six years.
19 2020
07.12.2020
Issue 19: Planetary Solidarity LGBTQ
Chatvichai Promadhattavedi
Invoking the spectrum of the rainbow, curator Chatvichai Prommadhattavedi reflects on the exhibition “Spectrosynthesis II – Exposure of Tolerance: LGBTQ in Southeast Asia” as part of a genealogy in the field of art that recognizes sex-gender diversity as an inherent part and always present of making community before authoritarianism.
19 2020
14.12.2020
Issue 19: Planetary Solidarity LGBTQ
Donnya Piggott, Niza, Viviane Vergueiro & Pawan Dhall
Del número piloto de The Against Nature Journal, una revista semestral de arte y derechos humanos que explora las leyes del “crimen contra la naturaleza” y sus legados, presentamos cuatro columnas escritas por activistas, escritorxs y académicxs que dan un vistazo a la vida, cultura, luchas y esperanzas de las personas LGBTQI+ en lugares donde regresiones relacionadas con los derechos reproductivos, de orientación sexual e identidad de género aún prevalecen.
19 2020
11.01.2021
Issue 19: Planetary Solidarity Art & territory
Christian Bendayán
Artist and curator Christian Bendayán reviews a current of Amazonist art through the work of the artists Chonon Bensho, from the Shipibo-Konibo people, and Rember Yahuarcani, from the Áimen+ clan of the Huitoto-Murui people, who articulate ancestral knowledge to remember other forms of existence beyond the white logic that has deformed the territory known as Peru.
19 2020
18.01.2021
Issue 19: Planetary Solidarity trabajo
Alice Sarmiento
Acknowledging quarantine life as a work activity, Philippines-based writer Alice Sarmiento remembers rest as a form of resistance to the market logic that exploits us all.
19 2020
25.01.2021
Issue 19: Planetary Solidarity trabajadores culturales
Zoe Butt
Curator Zoe Butt reflects on her bonds of unity with creators, colleagues and friends to dimension the power that lies in cultural work, and how knowledge is articulated as a lived experience to nurture the struggle and survival in a wounded world.
19 2020
02.02.2021
Issue 19: Planetary Solidarity
Gustaff H. Iskandar, Donna Miranda, Yasmine Ostendorf
As part of the Green Art Lab Alliance, an international network of art organizations contributing to environmental sustainability, researcher and curator Yasmine Ostendorf talks with SAKA (Artist Alliance for Genuine Land Reform and Rural Development) based in the Philippines and Common Room Networks Foundation (Common Room) based in Indonesia about collaborative survival in dominant systems that are (still) informed by (neo)colonial, patriarchal and capitalist power structures.
19 2020
08.02.2021
Issue 19: Planetary Solidarity Supervivencia colaborativa
Syafiatudina
Recognizing the crises that we inhabit globally, the curator and writer Syafiatudina reflects on collaborative survival as an ethical sense with the potential to re-organize artistic and cultural practices beyond the work/life dichotomy.
19 2020
15.02.2021
Issue 19: Planetary Solidarity Modernidad
Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran, Jo Ying Peng
Revisiting the impacts of modern developmentalism located in Asia, curator Jo Ying Peng, guest editor for the second part of this issue, reflects on artist Kao Jun Honn’s socially engaged practices and invites curator Arlette Quynh-Anh Tran to talk about how Art Labor’s project “Jrai Drew” was made in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
19 2020
22.02.2021
Issue 19: Planetary Solidarity Art & territory
Billy Tang, Geocinema
Curator Billy Tang talks with the Geocinema collective (Solveig Suess & Asia Bazdyrieva) about the sensory networks that represent the Earth on a planetary scale and their relationship with a geopolitical reconfiguration of the world in the face of the climate crisis around the international cooperation project Digital Belt and Road (DBAR).
19 2020
01.03.2021
Issue 19: Planetary Solidarity Art & territory
Gaye Chan, Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick
As an attempt to recalibrate our individual beliefs, with respect to identity, solidarity, and resistance, artist and curator Drew Kahuʻāina Broderick speak with artist Gaye Chan, a member of the collective EATING IN PUBLIC, on autonomous systems of exchange as part of their actions in Honolulu and Kāneʻohe, Oʻahu.
19 2020
09.03.2021
Issue 19: Planetary Solidarity Art & territory
Richard Ibghy & Marilou Lemmens, Benedicte Ramade
Researcher and curator Bénédicte Ramade interviews artist duo Marilou Lemmens and Richard Ibghy on their practice shaping efficient forms in countering the spoil of the earth because of the capitalist, extractivist and colonial strategy of industrial agriculture in Canada.
