The Americas

Asia | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks

post Presents: Unsettled Dust—Archives, Epistemologies, Images

These presentations and panel discussion at MoMA brought together four filmmakers and artists who work in expanded documentary modes, using existing footage, archival research, interviews, and scripted narratives to produce imaginative accounts of transnational struggles, solidarities, and interventions. Using moving images, some of these practitioners interrogate the anti-colonial and anti-imperialist movements of the mid-late 20th…

Jerónimo Atehortúa, Jihan El Tahri, Naeem Mohaiemen, Mila Turajlić, Rattanamol Singh Johal and Stuart Comer

The Americas | One Work, Many Voices

**Bearing Witness: Martín Chambi’s Campesinos Testifying, Palace of Justice, Cuzco (c. 1929)**

In Campesinos Testifying, Palace of Justice, Cuzco (c. 1929) by Peruvian photographer Martín Chambi (1891–1973), six Andean peasants huddle together at the Cuzco courthouse—four on a wooden bench and two standing behind them. Behind this group, two men are seated along a wall and, to their right, two functionaries sit at a table, one bent…

Elise Chagas

Asia | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

forever practice: Julie Tolentino and Kang Seung Lee in conversation

From August 2022 to June 2023, artists and friends Julie Tolentino and Kang Seung Lee reflected on their decades-long practices in kinship, politics, performance, and queer history.

Kang Seung Lee, Julie Tolentino and Wong Binghao

Asia | A Global Museum

Notes on Transshipment

What happens when we cross over to the other side? In relation to the phenomenon of transshipment – the risky and at times illicit practice of transferring cargo from one ship to another – artist and poet Rindon Johnson ruminates on borders and bodies that remain in flux.

Rindon Johnson

The Americas | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks

Dife and Leath: Time Rots

This elegiac text, published as a postscript to C-MAP’s 2022 seminar, is one of many in which artist Daniel Lie, one of the seminar’s panelists, reflects on the non-binary nature of life and death, a crucial thematic in their artistic practice.

Daniel Lie

The Americas | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks

Mida e Vorte: o tempo podre

Neste texto elegíaco, publicado a título de posfácio ao seminário, organizado pelo C-MAP em 2022, Daniel Lie, autore e palestrante convidade, reflete sobre a natureza não binária da vida e da morte, uma temática crucial na sua prática artística.

Daniel Lie

The Americas | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks

Subjectivities After Liberalism

The 2022 C-MAP seminar series, Transversal Orientations Part II, was held on Zoom across four panels on May 25 and 26, 2022. This text by Irmgard Emmelhainz, independent translator, writer and researcher, is the second written response to the seminar.

Irmgard Emmelhainz

The Americas | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks

Breaking Down Binaries, Feeling Contradictions: Thoughts on Some of the Conundrums Concerning Art’s Ecologies

Sarah Lookofsky, former Associate Director of the International program at MoMA, rumintes on the presentations and conversations held on Day One of the 2022 C-MAP seminar. Lookofsky calls out the contradictions of art’s embeddedness with various ecologies, rehearsing her own writing-thinking as produced by a “dumpy dialectic.”

Sarah Lookofsky

The Americas | A Global Museum

A Kaleidoscopic Prism: Conversation with Gaëlle Choisne

Gaëlle Choisne shares the details and entryways to her artistic practice. This text serves as a record of Choisne’s artistic and conceptual process, and is part of the C-MAP Asia Fellow’s ongoing research about curatorial approaches to art.

Gaëlle Choisne and Wong Binghao

The Americas | Contemporary Crisis and Dissent

Jaider Esbell: Fissures between Worlds

Madeline Murphy Turner analyzes recent artworks by the late Jaider Esbell, a pioneering artist, enabler, and advocate of Indigenous perspectives, environmentalism, and land rights.

Madeline Murphy Turner

The Americas | One Work, Many Voices

Bare Bones: Mira Schendel’s Untitled (1964)

In 1964, Swiss-born Brazilian artist Mira Schendel (1919–1988) exposed the anatomy of a painting by stripping canvas from a stretcher. For this work, which she created that year while living in São Paulo, Schendel left only a few traces of canvas, which can still be found tangled in the tacks that originally fastened it to the wooden support.

Francesca Ferrari

The Americas | Transnational Histories and Non-aligned Networks

The Slow Erosion: Traces, Conversations, and Politics of Position

This year’s C-MAP seminar series, Transversal Orientations, comprised four panels that took place on Zoom in June 2021. With this text, Dr. Riánsares Lozano de la Pola provides a reflection on Politics of Position, the fourth and final panel of the seminar series with Jeannine Tang, Jaanus Samma, and Irmgard Emmelhainz.

Riánsares Lozano de la Pola

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