About Terremoto
Terremoto is a nonprofit platform dedicated to the critique and dissemination of curatorial research and artistic practices in the Americas. It stands as one of the most important bilingual contemporary art media on the continent and has established itself as a key space for critical dialogue and reflection in the region.
The platform encompasses two major programs: the digital Magazine, which features essays, reviews, reports, and opinions, as well as housing the complete archive of our print editions (2014-2022); and Travesías Terremoto, a new nomadic residency program for Latin American artists focused on artistic and curatorial research throughout the continent.
What we stand for
We defend writing and visual culture as strategies to mobilize thought stemming from a diversity of voices. We uphold spaces for complicity, complexity, dialogue, and discernment. We incite self-archaeology to approach the points that enable connection between dreams, struggle, and the praxis of world-making. More than certainties, we are interested in constructing provocations. We create channels for experimentation and improvisation within the realm of imagination. We traverse our region through colonized sensitivities, affections, desires, and shared mourning. We conspire presents that build memories and tested possibilities from a collective standpoint. We reimagine aesthetics to share tools. We believe in fair practices, in the remuneration, resignification, and re-dignification of editorial work and artistic practices. We foster discursive and collaborative links among the various latitudes that compose the continent, beyond borders imposed through brutality and cruelty.
Sections
- Archive (Magazine, Blog, La Postal)
This section safeguards the content of the quarterly printed Magazine from 2014 to 2022; the Blog, an archive featuring photographic records and exhibition texts for contemporary art shows across the continent from 2013 to 2022; and La Postal, an exhibition program from 2018 to 2023 aimed at contributing to current discussions on curatorship as an experimental field for showcasing archival research.
- Editorial/ EditorialArticles
Comprising various sections, the editorial content reflects the platform’s commitment to fostering and disseminating critical thinking around exhibitions and cultural events across the continent.Opinion
This section features monthly commissioned critical reflections from diverse voices on politics, power, and cultural industries in our region. It also serves as the designated space for highlighting the urgent frictions unfolding across the continent.Marginalia
Monthly Visual Selection
Each month, we invite art world agents to share a selection of images related to their practice or interests.Projector
Video of the Month
Every month, high-quality video artwork is shared for free, available for fifteen days. The artwork is accompanied by a brief text or interview with the artist(s) to delve deeper into their concepts and discourse.
- Travesías Terremoto
Artistic Residencies for Research A residency program for Latin American artists designed to foster spaces for collective research and reflection across the continent. Organized in annual iterations, each edition is set within a specific territory and unfolds around a particular research theme inspired by the surrounding landscape. Travesías Terremoto is a fully funded program aimed at fostering conversations grounded in shared experiences—spaces that spark dialogues, encounters, and havens for exchange between the diverse regions of the continent amidst the uncertainties and disenchantments of the world.
