Fortunes of the Forest Divination Session @ New Museum
Fortunes of the Forest: Divination, Dance, and Story is a livestreamed, participatory performance that incorporates ritual, plant knowledge, movement, listening, and response-ability. This program will take place on August 18 at 8PM, and is part of the digital residency “Ensayos: Passages.” Australian Ensayos collaborators Dr. C.F.… Keep Reading
New Listening Series: Hydrofeminist METitations Episodes 1, 2 & 3
LISTEN HERE As part of our digital residency at the New Museum, Ensayos has launched three podcasts. Drawing from Ensayos’s transdisciplinary work, these podcasts focus on waters in different archipelagic regions, including Tierra del Fuego, New York, eastern Australia, and Norway. Journalist Catalina Jaramillo guides… 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
Watch DISTANCIA Webseries, Season Two
DISTANCIA Season Two premieres here on June 15, 2020 as part of Ensayos’ residency at the New Museum. Direct link: https://vimeo.com/showcase/7223262 Tierra del Fuego is remote to many in both physical distance and in the imagination, yet the archipelago at the tip of South America’s southern… Keep Reading
Decolonising Mourning: World-Making with the Selk’nam People of Karokynka/Tierra del Fuego
In an article published in Australian Feminist Studies, a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal, Hema’ny Molina and Camila Marambio of Ensayo #5 and Nina Lykke co-authored a paper that critiques ethnographic historic ethnographic fieldwork in Tierra del Fuego, unearthing its complicity with the myth of Selk’nam… Keep Reading
Reconnecting the Yaghan community to cultural belongings: 90 years on
In an article published in the Australian magazine Artlink, a quarterly themed journal covering contemporary art and ideas from Australia and the Asia-Pacific, Rebecca Carland (Ensayo #5) recounts the community consultation and nuts-and-bolts work that goes into decolonizing projects, from the perspective of a museum… Keep Reading