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I would like to welcome everyone to the guided tour at the exhibition "Ritualidades Contenidas, cohabitar, seguir las relaciones y enredarse". Wednesday 2oth of July at 18:00. Me gustaría invitares a la visita guiada que llevaré el próximo miércoles 20 de Julio a las 18:00, estáis todxs invitadxs! 
Today I had the real pleasure to give a talk to the students of the ECO BioPEERS project run between the Wichita University (US) and Escuela de Bellas Artes de Lima (Peru). I would like to thank very much to the coordinators of the program Vladimir Ramos and Lory Santos for such a great opportunity to keep discussing about collective art making processes among other topics arising from the projects.     Ritualidades contenidas. Cohabitar, seguir las relaciones y enredarse’, de Seila Fernández Arconada Casas del Águila y la Parra - Santillana del Mar 1 de julio al 26 de julio de 2022 Inauguración: Viernes, 1 de julio – 18:30 Horario (de martes a domingo) 10:00 – 14:00 16:00 – 18:30 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ El proyecto multidisciplinar ‘Ritualidades contenidas. Cohabitar, seguir las relaciones y enredarse’ de la artista cántabra Seila Fernández Arconada podrá verse en la sala de exposiciones de las Casas del Águila y la Parra, de Santillana del Mar, del 1 de julio al 26 de julio de 2022, gracias al Programa Comisariado 2022 realizado con el apoyo de la Consejería de Universidades, Igualdad, Cultura y Deporte del Gobierno de Cantabria. El Programa Comisariado 2022 es una iniciativa enmarcada dentro de las acciones de consulta y participación llevadas a cabo desde la Mesa de Artes Plásticas y Visuales del Consejo Cántabro de Cultura, desarrollado con el apoyo de la Consejería de Universidades, Igualdad, Cultura y Deporte del Gobierno de Cantabria, con el objetivo de promocionar y difundir el talento de artistas y comisarios de la región y diversificar la exposición de proyectos en instituciones y espacios culturales de la región. Al frente de la coordinación y gestión del programa de este año se encuentran Emma Meruelo y Wendy Navarro. ‘Ritualidades contenidas. Cohabitar, seguir las relaciones y enredarse’ es una propuesta que Seila Fernández Arconada presenta como un proceso de re-arraigamiento al territorio del que es originaria, estableciendo nuevos vínculos con él, a través de una serie de ritualidades artísticas que nacen en una ‘isla’ ubicada en la confluencia entre el río Besaya y el monte Dobra. Se trata de un proyecto con múltiples estratos donde procesos humanos dejan su huella en el territorio a la vez que los ciclos de una naturaleza cambiante y fluida convergen en una realidad acuosa en constante transformación. ‘Ritualidades contenidas’ se nutre del (co)habitar a través de lenguajes artísticos (bio)diversos, ramificándose en preguntas y creaciones fluidas que transitan lo multisensorial desde lo más corpóreo y cercano hacia lo inmerso en costumbres y ritualidades colectivas. Un diálogo de saberes inspirado en la naturaleza, sumergido entre cuerpos de agua desde el propio cuerpo humano hasta el río y la misma montaña, Dobra (Dubron en céltico ‘lugar donde abunda el agua’) para llegar a la luna y sus ‘temporalidades acuosas’. Este acercamiento busca (con)fluir desde la exploración artística, fomentando preguntas relacionales, enredadas en las grietas y las afueras, a través de metodologías que parten del arte y se tejen con otras disciplinas y saberes. Uno de los ingredientes de este proyecto es el mapeo del río a través de técnicas diversas tales como la creación sonora y fotográfica, el diálogo con personas cercanas al río, además de la búsqueda de plantas de río y plantas extinguidas en el medio natural entre otros. A su vez, la artista ha organizado varios encuentros colectivos en la ‘isla’ del río Besaya buscando fomentar el debate y la creación y así tejer vínculos y conocimientos por medio de la experiencia colectiva en el territorio. El reflejo resultante de este proceso se traslada a la exposición mostrando un escenario de experimentación donde varias instalaciones multidisciplinares habitan el espacio, algunas de ellas cambiantes a lo largo de la exposición por medio de procesos naturales, otras habitando y expandiéndose por medio de ondas sonoras y lumínicas entremezclando las temporalidades acuosas entre el día y la noche. La duración de la exposición desde su montaje a su desmontaje es exactamente un ciclo lunar, lo cual es importante en la narrativa de la misma. ‘Ritualidades contenidas’, además, incluye colaboraciones con artistas internacionales cercanos a la artista, procesos que son intrínsecos en la naturaleza de su trabajo y desvelan otras sinergias y relaciones más allá del contexto local. Estas narrativas parten de lo situado y se tejen con debates globales tales como el cambio climático, la fragilidad del agua y la biodiversidad, además de la construcción de imaginarios presentes y futuros donde otras formas, otras miradas y otros mundos son posibles. Seila Fernández Arconada Proyecto seleccionado dentro del Programa Comisariado 2022 realizado con el apoyo de la Vicepresidencia del @gobcantabria @programacomisariado2022 . #ritualidadescontenidas #seilafernandezarconada #proyectomultidisciplinar #ritualidades #artísticas #territorio #lenguajesartísticos #biodiversos #cuerposdeagua #rios #tejervinculos #encuentroscolectivos #procesoscolaborativos #programacomisariado2022 #artesplasticasccc #consejeriadeuniversidadesigualdadculturaydeporte #gobiernodecantabria #culturadecantabria #artisticresearch #culture #santander #cantabria #artesvisuales #art #cultura #artecontemporaneo #contemporaryart @artesplasticasccc @programacomisariado2022 @culturadecantabria GERMINATIONS: Conversations in Environmental Humanities with Latin America & the Caribbean27/6/2022 Here some images of the seminar Germinations which took place today. Thanks again to organisers in special to Dr. Lisa Blackmore and all the speakers for such interesting project and collective discussion, thanks also to Emilio Chapela for the live drawing session that collected some more collective connections across all narratives.   During the creative process of Ritualidades Contenidas. Cohabitar, seguir las relaciones y enredarse there has been a number of collective moments and other creative inputs from territory and some other kinds of research. Here I would like to share some to open up some visual ingredients for the exhibition which will open pretty soon in Santillana del Mar (Spain). More updates soon, thanks to everyone involved in the process, all the support and learning.        GERMINATIONS: Conversations in Environmental Humanities with Latin America & the Caribbean25/6/2022 I am very pleased to share that next Monday I will be one of the speakers in Germinations, a series of online transdisciplinary conversations in environmental humanities engaging research with/from/relating to Latin America & the Caribbean. This event is organised by the Centre for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CLACS) and I would like to thanks them for this special invitation in particular to Dr. Lisa Blackmore. If you would like to join this collective space with a very diverse range of professionals that for sure will enable interesting and inspiring conversations to keep germinating, here is the link for booking yourself in: https://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/events/event/26396  Germinations is a series of online transdisciplinary conversations in environmental humanities engaging research with/from/relating to Latin America & the Caribbean. The institutionalisation of EH as a field has been largely an Anglo-Eurocentric endeavour. Yet research conducted or drawing from the region has a long history of engagement with environmental issues from interdisciplinary, intermodal, transcultural and translingual perspectives. This series of conversations aims to map the field of environmental humanities in Latin America & the Caribbean while opening up areas for future research and collaboration with the region and raising questions about the roots and affordances of the field. It aims to cultivate a space to explore environmental insights from scholarship and other research-based practices, such as curatorial and artistic work. Germinations will thus seek to give rise to discussions, methodologies, networks, and collaborations in environmental humanities with Latin America & the Caribbean.
Questions that will run through the series include: What work is being done from the UK and Ireland in the field of EH related to LAC? What are the EH in LAC? What are the specificities and histories of the field in the region? How do EH genealogies in Latin America differ from those in the Global North? What are its thematic and methodological foci? Who is conducting EH research in/with/drawing from the region? On what interdisciplinary and intermodal collaborations is the field based in Latin American and Caribbean Studies? What forms of collaboration in environmental humanities does the region host? What methodologies are employed in environmental research within the humanities and cognate social sciences in//with/drawing from the region? What methodological innovations have emerged from within the field? What forms of dissemination has the field engendered? What are the methods and languages of circulation of EH work? This initiative is a cross-institutional collaboration convened by Ainhoa Montoya (CLACS, University of London), Paul Merchant (University of Bristol), Lisa Blackmore (University of Essex), and Diogo Cabral (Trinity College Dublin). Launch activity - 27 June 2022 The first conversation will consist of panels that initiate a sketching out of environmental humanities work being done in the UK and Ireland that engages with/is occurring in Latin America & the Caribbean, addressing some of the questions and themes that will underpin the series as a whole. Speakers will begin the conversation with 5-minute presentations/provocations, followed by a discussion. Emilio Chapela (University of Plymouth) will generate live an emerging map of environmental humanities relating to Latin America and the Caribbean as the conversation progresses. All times are in BST 16:00 Welcome and Introduction 16:05 Panel 1: What are emerging areas of environmental humanities that engage with Latin America & the Caribbean? Luciana Martins (Birkbeck, University of London) Michela Coletta (University of Warwick) Kasia Mika (Queen Mary University of London) (pre-recorded) Joanna Page (University of Cambridge) Jamille Pinheiro Dias (University of Manchester) 17:05 Break 17:15 Panel 2: What are the methods that characterise research in environmental humanities that engages the region? Hanne Cottyn (University of York, paramunos.com) Seila Fernández Arconada (independent artist-researcher UK/Spain) Xavier Ribas & Louise Purbick (University of Brighton, tracesofnitrate.org) Alejandro Valencia-Tobon (University of Manchester, cucusonic.net) 18:15-18:30 Introduction of GERMINATIONS All are welcome to attend this free event, which will be held online via zoom. You will need to register in advance to receive the online joining link. These images are some details of the visual context of the series of workshops "Drawing (inter) actions collaborative research, Art and Care for ecosocial (re)balance". which I led at the University of Bristol last May as a collaboration with the Public Engagement team, the Research Governance team and the Cabot Institute at the University of Bristol. These series of workshops were a real challenge but it was such a rich ground for diverse discussions and collective creativity, very needed for the topics and the collective attitude towards shifting perspectives to more ethical research forms. The outcome was including not only the shared space but a number of questions that emerged from the experiencies along the 10 days workshops, aiming to expand these spaces further and influence on research ethics's protocols. Thanks to all who participated and got engaged with the flow of the workshops and the different participants involved, it is always a gift to be part of such collective energy. Here the description of the workshop: "This creative space will enable us to explore the wider implications of research and encourage dialogue between different kinds of knowledge. This shared experience will be guided by artistic collaborative methods and practices of care aiming to contribute to the research ethics process at University of Bristol. Reflecting on the research implications in the context of the climate emergency can reinforce the need to (re)draw interactions with other kinds of knowledge, other narratives and other species. Artistic practices can provide an inclusive, thoughtful and experimental setting to explore alternative forms of engagement while envisioning future scenarios, considering different voices (grounding research in a wider context) and reflecting on controversial topics such as sustainability, nature, resilience and uncertainty." I am well pleased to share that today is the vernissage of the exhibition "another world is possible" where I have been one of the invited artists together with Bernard Fairhurst as part of the Functional Collaborative Futures collective (F.C.F.) we run since 2013. The projects Warning and Fools Gold (UK, 2014) are interventions in the public space reflecting on topics of the exhibition transferred into the context of the UK, branching out discussions that are urgent and meaningful as "another world is possible". F.C.F. is an art research-collaboration exploring issues around energy supply, ecology, hydrology, pollution, human influenced global warming, and tensions between national and local politics and between local democracy and multi-national business. This project began in 2013 by Seila Fernández Arconada and Bernard Fairhurst in the UK, further developed internationally. This collaboration is still ongoing. www.f-c-f.net  another world is possible – exhibitiononline seit: 11. Juni 2022
zuletzt aktualisiert: 18. Juni 2022 von Fridays for Future Where? Glasshouse k.format, Kurt-Schumacher-Str 26a in Kassel When? 18.06. - 01.07.2022, daily: 1 pm - 5pm and by appointment Opening: 18.6.2022 day festival : starting at 10 am, Vernissage at 5 pm another world is possible - young artists and activists call for a climate-just, solidary future. This demand, however, requires a researching perspective at the climate (justice) issues of the present time: Global exploitation and especially lignite mining in the Rhenish lignite area Garzweiler are central topics of the exhibition. For 500 years, colonized people, especially in the global South, have been fighting against exploitative and capitalist violence. As part of this climate justice movement, the activist resistance in Lützerath - a village in North Rhine-Westphalia destroyed by lignite mining - is an example of how utopias can already be lived today: by people working collectively for the survival of the village and a caring community. Art reflects and creates social realities; or questions them. Therefore Lützerath is also an important part of the Ekosistem of documenta fifteen. This is an invitation to all people not only to enter the intersection between art and activism, but also to visit the real places of resistance to experience the power of the collective. Both art and activism create open spaces where social unfolding, renegotiation, and ultimately change become possible. These open spaces, in which real utopias are already being lived today, will be discussed, made visible and experienced in another world is possible. A World Where Many Worlds Fit! "Otro mundo es posible. Un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos." (Quoted from the Zapatista movement). |
SEILA FERNÁNDEZ ARCONADA
