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Focus on Latin America
Episode II: Mexico, Chile, Spain, Italy
From working with the community to creating a new community
In our previous meeting, we started our reflection inspired by the etymology of the word “Culture” and its connections with the word “Agriculture”.
One question arises: when did Culture has become something different from Agri-Culture?
During the Pandemic, many of us started to grow our own vegetables and make our own bread. Many of us came back to our homeland, our family’s places, and our isolated houses in the middle of Nature.
We aimed to become as a farmer, who contemplates the World, observes, is embedded with Reality. Only afterwards the one who knows the Land can insert the action in the Landscape, talk about it, justify (perhaps), to understand it. Because only then he is the one who knows.
We will explore thoughts, concepts, case studies, projects that already happened or about to happen, wishes, visions.
Eco-human sustainability, community, landscape, new cultural practices, art/activism.
Which are your most urgent matters, do you have new questions?
Maybe we have been training for years to come to this point.
Maybe is true that the Pandemic made us take a new position, which has contributed to strengthening an attitude we were trying to take already.
Is it our responsibility, as producers, artists, creatives, to take this position and include new practices in our “productive, necessary, art&cultural” world?
These 90 minutes aim to be free space online/offline to exchange thoughts, visions, and take a position in front of Reality or this new Landscape.
GUEST SPEAKERS (see bios below): Nayeli Real (Mexico), Giovanna Maroccolo (Italy/Mexico), Laida Azkona y Txalo Tolosa (Spain/Chile), Mateo Feijò (Spain), Tizo All (Brasil/Germany).
FACILITATORS: Anna Estdahl, in collaboration with Silvia Demofonti and Brandon Davis.
Jaciel Neri, from Moving Borders (Mexico), will be with us for this second episode dedicated to a conversation between Latin America and Europe.
