06.02.2017 - 24.04.2017
How could a political incentive for change such as the Colombian peace treaty signed with FARC after 50+ years of war—and its philosophical connotation within a traumatic history of violence—be rejected by the democratic majority in the October 2016 referendum? How could the economic and cultural collaboration at the scale of a geopolitical zone such as the European Union also be rejected by a majority of Brexiters in the UK? How could the United States choose Donald Trump as a president? We would like to think that these responses spring out of collective fear, bigotry, and conservatism, but their causes might be much more profound, taking root in histories and processes that go way back through the last tumultuous centuries. A pluralistic future won’t happen without discussion and it is time to gather our arguments and find a way to keep on with the conversation—precisely because of our diverse political, religious, gender, cultural, and racial identifications. In this issue of Terremoto, we will discuss risk, fear, failure, and commitment. We will consider methodology and consensus. Looking at artworks, aesthetics, and narratives able to depict ambiguous human relationships towards collective living, political cohabitation and acceptance with nuance, we will face the ugly truth and argue along the way—often being tempted to abandon the conversation. However, in this new year and in praise of difficulty, let’s strive for compassionate, disciplined action and intellectual generosity. Together, let’s manage anxiety in the most creative ways by seeking to apprehend what it is that we truly wish.
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Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, "Illusion of Matter", 2015. BMW Tate Live: Performance Room at Tate Modern. Photo by Tate Photography. Courtesy of the artista, Tate Modern & Gasworks, London.
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06.02.2017
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Morgan Fisher, Tenzing Barshee
The American artist and the Swiss curator discuss the crisis of democracy,
celebrity culture in the US, and social media as an outlet for resistance.
8 2017
13.02.2017
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Lucrecia Martel, Manuel Kalmanovitz González
The Argentine film director confers with Manuel Kalmanovitz on her particular vision of the world and the confrontation with the strangeness of the real in her films.
8 2017
20.02.2017
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Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa, Kiki Mazzucchelli
Kiki Mazzucchelli analyzes the use of fantasy and fiction in the Guatemalan-born artist’s practice, as tools to evoke and heal the turbulent memories of the Guatemalan Civil War.
8 2017
27.02.2017
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Jessica Mitrani, Ieva Misevičiūtė
The Lithuanian performer talks with the Colombian artist about art in the U.S. after Trump, body knowledge and the vitality of the absurd in absurd times.
8 2017
06.03.2017
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Luciano Concheiro
Luciano Concheiro reflects on resistance to acceleration and advocates for an alternative understanding of the passage of time.
8 2017
13.03.2017
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Ana Mazzei, Dorothée Dupuis
São Paulo-based artist Ana Mazzei discusses with Terremoto’s editor in chief Dorothée Dupuis about politics of spectatorship in her work, public space in Brazil and how art’s independence vis-à-vis reality is actually what commits it the most strongly to the current affairs of the world.
8 2017
20.03.2017
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Elena Tejada-Herrera, Florencia Portocarrero
Florencia Portocarrero highlights the historical importance of Peruvian artist Elena Tejada-Herrera’s practice and its relevance to understand the experience of migrants in the current political panorama.
8 2017
27.03.2017
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Eusebio Siosi, María Isabel Rueda
The Wayuu artist and the Cartagena artist speak about the importance of the traditional feminine practice of divination through dreaming in the Wayuu culture and how to integrate these forms of knowledge in the contemporary world and in environmental preservation.
8 2017
03.04.2017
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Brenda Lozano
8 2017
10.04.2017
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Yornel J. Martínez Elías, Daniela Castro
The Cuban artist and the Brazilian curator talk about the current Cuban situation and the changes in the paradigms of perception of reality from within the art community in times of crisis.
8 2017
17.04.2017
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Gelen Jeleton, Jesús Arpal Moya, Aimar Arriola, Juan Canela
The Spanish curators and artists reflect on the usefulness of the combination of magic and theory and the spells we must craft to endure a schizophrenic reality.
8 2017
24.04.2017
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Sofía de Grenade, Adolfo Bimer, César Vargas
To move from reading to criticism is to change desires; it is no longer to desire the work but to desire one’s own language. – R. Barthes I We are living at a time when the exhaustion of resources within the visual arts constitutes an aesthetic era, a temporal plane whose lucidity is found just […]
