After a long selection process, we are thrilled to announce the participating artists in "The Chant of the Chaos-World", the second volume of our transdisciplinary program Travesías.

Travesías Terremoto II: The Chant of the Chaos-World is the second edition of Terremoto’s residency program for research, which will take place in the Dominican Republic.

Curated by Luis Graham Castillo and Terremoto, this edition takes Édouard Glissant’s archipelagic thought as its starting point, exploring his concept of the chaos-world as a tool to reflect on the sacred, the ancestral, and the cultural complexities of the Caribbean and Latin America. The residency proposes embodied encounters, fieldwork, workshops, and visits to spiritual and community territories, fostering dialogue with Afro-Caribbean, Indigenous, and syncretic knowledge systems.

After an extensive selection process and the review of 762 applications, we are proud to present the five selected artists. Congratulations to Julianny Ariza Vólquez (Dominican Republic), Miguel Cinta Robles (Mexico), Edizon Cumes (Guatemala), Luisebastián Sanabria (Colombia), and Carla Sobrino (Chile)!

The selection committee was composed of Sarah Hermann (Dominican Republic), Maya Juracán (Guatemala), Tania Candiani (Mexico), Luis Graham Castillo (Dominican Republic), and Helena Lugo (Mexico).

Julianny Ariza Vólquez (Dominican Republic)
Her work focuses on rethinking exclusionary models of Dominican material memory, through exercises in recovery and coexistence of the identities of Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and female groups. Her practice brings into friction the representative materials of the main cultures that inhabited the insular Caribbean.

Miguel Cinta Robles (Mexico)
His practice interweaves histories of labor in the fields of agriculture, sculpture, and land-based pedagogies. He is the founder of Domingo de Cerro, a project of workshops and hikes through the mountains of Oaxaca and Mexico, which seeks—through collective walking—to understand the political contexts of the territories.

Edizon Cumes (Guatemala)
He believes in the milpa (traditional maize farming), forests, and cooking as political spaces for managing and sustaining life in Indigenous communities. His research centers on knowledge production systems rooted in food and nature.

Luisebastián Sanabria (Colombia)
Luisebastián explores the plasticity of language and memory through installation and video. His research focuses on uncovering subaltern ways of life through literature and developing a writing-based practice that intervenes in time—one that delays the death of things, of living beings.

Carla Sobrino (Chile)
A visual artist, territorial organizer, and writer from the Atacama Desert. Her practice generates methodological spaces for analysis and the creation of critical visuality, with the aim that images from non-central territories become a force of collective insistence in the face of the current extractivist landscape of lithium and copper.