La Esquina A self-organized resource: which is a space for colleagues creative practitioners with long term investigations. It is not a residency, but a family living space: Casa Común that supports exchanges in the creative and critical thinking fields with experimental ideas and forms. Is rooted on transdisciplinary practices that embody diversity, believe in the decolonization of the relations and of the self, bring upfront debates on urgent ecological issues, socially engaged practices of design that team up with diverse disciplines as peers who learn together and plan the future in the present for a needed transition into a pluriverse. La Esquina is a estacional tool that is handed to colleagues to make possible the encounters that brings upfront thoughts, action, and solutions for the conflicts of our present. We share a common moto: that which believe in providing tools that can provide stimulus toward a collective moment by the solidarity and complicit love among subjectivity. It is anchored in the idea that each resident will add on to a sum of questions and responses that when pilled-up can enable changes in moments of urgency. The space is literally a habitable-library that can pill-up a diverse lexicon by the possibility of cross-learning. We do not promote diversity we believe we are a diverse community that acknowledge all those beings that we are part of. After having founded, directed and engaged in different institutions and organizations which convey residency programs, La Esquina is not founded, is not formal, is not an institution or organization but a straight forward space: a scaffolding that can serve as a temporary anchor or station for a relay of long term investigations. We see the space as a support structure for artists, curators and projects: a tool. We are literally located at a corner where two lines meet at an angle in the historic center of city of San Juan, Puerto Rico. At the moment the space is a resource to: Escuela de Oficio, Proyecto Opciones, THRP, La germinal, and TVGov. Artists engage in this projects have the space as their resources and I am teammate/or accomplice to those endeavors. They can invite others who overlap with their investigations and/or stop in it when in the need of a space to bring together in a place artists, thinkers, acivist that are engage in trans geographic conversations. The idea of relay or o del mensajero Chasqui (palabra quechua: chaski (postillón o también chaski (correo, persona de relevo) embody and talks about the importance of transporting and spreading messages with care based on a long route and support structures in the route. And the idea of the space as with the word tambo (del quechua tanpu, (which means temporary accommodation) is about acknowledging the need for rest, for habitable spaces and for albergue that does not depend on the market/commodity of power structures of the art, academia, corporation. The tambos were accommodation spaces with cooking facilities and temporary storage for that the messengers could make stops on their way during the delivery of a message or object. Each initiative invites residents for a period that is self-organize through a shared calendar. The space joins and is part of a togetherness with others who have stop in the path. It bing together also others who are in need of taking time to recharge or work in a related researches and processes. At the moment the space is a resource to: Escuela de Oficio, Proyecto Opciones, THRP, La germinal, and TVGov. Artists engage in this projects have the space as their resources and I am teammate/or accomplice to those endeavors. They can invite others who overlap with their investigations and/or stop in it when in the need of a space to bring together in a place artists, thinkers, acivist that are engage in trans geographic conversations. The idea of relay or o del mensajero Chasqui (palabra quechua: chaski (postillón o también chaski (correo, persona de relevo) embody and talks about the importance of transporting and spreading messages with care based on a long route and support structures in the route. And the idea of the space as with the word tambo (del quechua tanpu, (which means temporary accommodation) is about acknowledging the need for rest, for habitable spaces and for albergue that does not depend on the market/commodity of power structures of the art, academia, corporation. The tambos were accommodation spaces with cooking facilities and temporary storage for that the messengers could make stops on their way during the delivery of a message or object. Each initiative invites residents for a period that is self-organize through a shared calendar. The space joins and is part of a togetherness with others who have stop in the path. It bing together also others who are in need of taking time to recharge or work in a related researches and processes. Together, we seek to deepen and relate within a large community of enthusiasts who share experiences and build possible futures, deconstructing the failed past, adding up relearned forgotten forms and joyfully continue rehrearsals by rehearsing it. La esquina is among other things an accomplice to practitioners that bring upfront issues about environmental issues, philosophy, design who are socially engage to the transition for the pluriverso in the presente future. We could say that La Esquina Space/tool is sister to others that connect local daily context with projects that bring to also as peers other geographies who are also accomplices of others beings enganging in ongoing learning together. We know that in order to challenge, decolonized and deepen into the complexity of forms that generate knowledge we have to create and be joyfully guardian of spaces of trust. We at La Esquina are interested in challenging our systems of participation which are mainly based in disciplinary constraints and the traditional formats. La Esquina does not invite, but those that are dialoguing invite. And those who have passed through the corner are bearers of the key that is pass on in the relay. One of the resources that makes this space possible is the residents of the Luna 208 building, San Justo corner. The Corner is also an editorial space launched by Michy Marxuach.
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