Unrecognized silences and erasure in narrations Proposal to work within the residency infrastructure under the theme of as
Collecting
Practice, a program
Sites for the residency: My studio, San Juan Our territory, Puerto Rico Delfina Foundation, London
of collecting though
Re-drawing and re-mapping the route of few pieces of our ancestry in some London collections through auto-organized pedagogies in search of finding new partners in
exploring radical modes of
thought through the social life of the object with a community to challenge us our
that expands the notion
collecting, and collection
sites as active and critical spaces for revisionist histories and new narrative.
understanding of things and revive dormant memories by reviewing embodyments of
other narratives and claims: a process of restitution and reinstituting and a process of grounding ideas of the imaginary into everyday articulations.
A residency of companonship and complicit love between Puerto Rico and London. Process and steps for a publication of a long term practice investigation
Immerse in the forest we can hear voices that keep the souls of the soils. Soils that have been cared for, and that teach us about harmony, diversity and strength. If we pause and listen with attentiveness we can even hear the sounds of silence. And not only of the many voices that have been erase with their language, but that of all the organisms alive that reverberate with their wisdom.
January-March 2021 Begin conversations at distance - research on objects that will lead us towards mapping and dialogues.
Start communication with
experts that could zoom into narrations and background of the objects and add experimental conversations with different individuals in the community that
Colleagues with whom I will be working
Artist: Jorge Gonzรกlez (PR) Canjibaro Community (PR) experts (around the globe together with Experts in London) Community (descendants from Caribbeans living in London and in the Caribe) Delfina Foundation (mediator and partner in production)
can add up experimental narrations based on personal experiences and experimental history theories, and or
data which has been part of their experiences and not necessarily part of the official narration.
Laboratories for situating and re-grounding ... Accountability of blind spot in the institutional, political and social narratives.
April 2021 Visit to London if permitted and needed of one of the colleagues
May - September 2021 Invite a group of thinkers to collaborate with the research materials
September 2021 Visit to London if permitted and needed of two of the colleagues
During the timeframe - we
will formalize parts of the process as to open it up to those interested.
October - November 2021 Draft and prototype of what could be the publication
January - March 2022 Design and edition