inbetweeness as centre
Guest curated by Dr. Tania Cañas
Artists include: Sabino Esteban Francisco, Leonel Alvarado and Rómulo Castro García, Regina José Galindo, The Fire Theory, Shirley Campbell Barr, Luis González Serrano, Lucreccia Quintanilla, Dany Ruiz, Tania Cañas and Archiving the Present Project.
As a narrow landmass that connects two larger landmasses and bodies of water, isthmus is a term that has become synonymous with Centroamérica.
Isthmus, in the context of Centroamérica, connects the northern and southern hemispheres, western and global south, Pacific and Atlantic, and the whole of the Americas as Mesoamérica. An isthmus however is not merely limited to a geographical description.
ISTHMUS looks at the multiple configurations of isthmus imaginaries, resisting the hegemonic conceptualisations of Latin America, both regionally and reproduced in the diaspora. ISTHMUS asks what it might mean to centre the bridge, the borderland, the in-between? What it might mean to think, create, speak and practice from the isthmus as a site of dwelling.