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
LISTEN HERE Hydrofeminist METitations is a listening series brought to you by Ensayos as a part of their digital residency at the New Museum. …… Episode 1: Eastern Australia Act 1: Sarita Gálvez offers reflections on water and soil care drawn from ‘Creekulum’ (curriculum of… … Keep Reading
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
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
Published as a joint issue with Discipline No. 5 in September 2019. Excerpts below, or download here. … Keep Reading
From the exhibition Everything is possibly an oracle at CARPARK, Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia … Keep Reading
“What is coastal curriculum?” one asked. “What are we here to learn?” wondered another. Cards were drawn at water’s edge. Lines were traced in the sand. Sticks were raised next to rocks. A snake passed. Voices from different continents threaded memories together. Washed by the… … Keep Reading
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
WHEN August 23-28, 2019 WHAT Ensayistas met in Meanjin (Brisbane, Australia), where collaborator Caitlin Franzmann is based, for a mobile residency on the coastal islands in Quandamooka Country (Moreton Bay and islands) in southeast Queensland. After visiting the exhibition Seeing Country at Redland Art Gallery,… … Keep Reading
WHEN December 9 – 20, 2018 WHAT Accidentally, we ventured off track. We got lost, ended up elsewhere. And once there, we had no choice but to change history. So, we did. Quietly, collectively, weaving images of islands and flowers, rodents and blood, we told… … Keep Reading
A postscript on Hydro-Feminist METitations presented as part of the Liquid Architecture program Negative Volumes: Body Languages held at West Space, Melbourne on October 14th, 2017 Welcome to Country by Uncle Bill Nicholson. Uncle Bill started by acknowledging the local language, Woiwurrung, and greeting us… … Keep Reading
Running Conversations with Camila Marambio and Astrida Neimanis Late at the Lab: Thursday 5 October Join Underbelly Arts and Liquid Architecture for an evening of coastal listening, sloppy digressions and tidal thinking. This Lab will offer ideas and discussion led by curator Camila Marambio and… … Keep Reading
En español recordar viene del latín, cordis, y significa volver a pasar por el corazón. Algunas semanas después de nuestro taller SSSS en el Victoria College of the Arts Secondary School Camila y yo nos juntamos a rememorar. A volver juntas a pasar por la… … Keep Reading
SSSS is a playful first attempt at co-creating a coastal curriculum for Melbourne, a first throw of a skipping stone along the surface of Phillip Bay, that took place during the month of March 2017 thanks to the artist Sean Peoples who offered Camila Marambio… … Keep Reading
Part of a slow process of weaving experiences, ideas and dreams in Narrm Melbourne this is an offering from Sarita Gálvez and Camila Marambio to the rest of the Coastal Curriculum pods (New York, Norway, Tierra del Fuego). First conceived of as a manifesto, today… … Keep Reading