HACER(NOS)FUEGO: A CURATORIAL PROPOSAL IN PROGRESS

Abstract

This text focuses on different artistic/curatorial practices that, since the late 1980s, have proposed possible responses to the stagnation of institutions and their incapacity to dialogue —from the art system— with conjunctural socio-political processes in the territories of Abya Yala. We make an approach to these situated practices based on G. Pollock's notions of virtuality, D. Haraway's encounter and fabulation, and S. Rivera Cusicanqui's ch'ixi. In them we highlight different poetic/political operations that function as antecedents to propose an artistic/curatorial practice in the present, which we have called Hacer(nos) fuego. The aim of the project is to tension, among others, the following questions: What kind of artistic/curatorial operations can we expect today, in the context of social and pandemic outbursts? In what space-time and with what methodologies could artistic events take place and give rise to other epistemologies?