Una Chadhuri & Olivia Michoko Gagnon on Cucú and Her Fishes
The New Museum invited two scholars to review the work in process, speak with Ensayos practitioners, and contextualize this work in relation with both current scholarship and the broader cultural moment. Una Chaudhuri’s critically influential work on “eco-theatre” and Olivia Michiko Gagnon’s recent theorization of… … Keep Reading
Fortunes of the Forest: Divination, Dance & Story
Fortunes of the Forest: Divination, Dance, and Story was a livestreamed, participatory performance incorporating plant knowledge through ritual, movement and conversation. The event took place on August 18, 2020 as part of the digital residency “Ensayos: Passages” in celebration of the launch of our online periodical Más… … Keep Reading
“A Planetary Expenditure”: Interview with Ensayos in MOMUS
By Jarrett Earnest, August 6, 2020 The work of Ensayos – a strategically covert group of artists, poets, historians, biologists, lawyers, sociologists, ecologists, activists, policymakers, and local community members, around the globe – is extremely difficult to summarize. And that’s just the way they want it.… … Keep Reading
Queering the Science Poster: Research Turned Inside-Out
Students in the University of Hartford’s Nomad Interdisciplinary MFA took an Art & Ecology course with Christy Gast and Camila Marambio of Ensayos in June, 2020. Ensayos believes that that imagining a better future requires sound science, aesthetic sensitivity, creative experimentation, collaboration, and systems thinking.… … Keep Reading
Ensayos: Passages – Online
New York, NY…New Museum’s Department of Education and Public Engagement presents “Ensayos: Passages,” its first online artist residency, foregrounding the department’s year-round commitment to contemporary art and pedagogy centered on personal and social growth. The international collective Ensayos (translated as “inquiries”, “essays,” or “rehearsals” in… … Keep Reading
Comadreo Pacífico – Ensayo #4
WHAT An Indigenous-led comadreo among women who carry memories, knowledge and practices of care for coastal territories on the east coast of Australia, Pacific Islands, Aotearoa, Perú and Chile. Ensayo #4 defines a comadreo as a non-hierarchical, humorous, tender and creative practice of co-mothering, allowing… … Keep Reading
Magnetic Isle Connect – Ensayo #4
WHEN September 10 – 28, 2019 WHAT After the opening of our exhibition, Everything is Possibly an Oracle, we headed to the central highlands, traversing thirsty country on high fire alert. Guided by our friend, Dale Harding, we accepted an invitation from Carol and Trent… … Keep Reading
Everything is Possibly An Oracle, at Milani Gallery, Brisbane
Exhibition at CARPARK, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia. Opening: Saturday, 7 September 2019, 5-7pm Closing performance: Saturday, 28 September 2019, 2pm-4pm What if, in times of uncertainty and doubt, we first turned to a rock, a tree, an ant, or the tides as a source of… … Keep Reading
Precarious Symmetry at MADA Gallery, Melbourne
Precarious Symmetry Ariel Bustamante and Carolina Saquel Curated by Camila Marambio as part of the making of the webseries Distancia Exhibition: 17 April – 12 May 2018 Opening: Tuesday 17th April 2018, 6 – 8pm with Artist Talk @ 7pm Precarious Symmetry is a face-off.… … Keep Reading
Más allá del fin, Issue #3.5
Published in August of 2020 on the occasion of Ensayos: Passages, a virtual residency at the New Museum in New York. Download English version here or Spanish version here.
Publicado en agosto de 2020 con motivo de Ensayos: Passages, una residencia virtual en el New Museum en Nueva York. Descargar la versión en español aquí o la versión en inglés aquí.
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