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.
Exhibition Opening: Wednesday 24 August, 6.30 – 8.30pm
Exhibition dates: 24 August – 16 October, 2022
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.
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Poetry Reading, Artist in Conversation
Sunday 2 October 2-4pm
Wyndham Art Gallery
Please join us for an afternoon celebrating ISTHMUS curated by Dr Tania Cañas at Wyndham Art Gallery. The afternoon will include poetry readings by exhibiting artists Luis González-Serrano and Andrea Mendez, an artist in conversation moderated by exhibition curator Tania Cañas and beats by exhibiting artist and DJ Lucreccia Quintanilla.
Image: Regina Jose Galindo Guatemala feminicida, Ciudad de Guatemala (2021) Fotos Jose Oquendo
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Como una masa de tierra estrecha que conecta dos masas de tierra y cuerpos de agua, istmo es un término que se ha convertido en sinónimo de Centroamérica.
El istmo, en el contexto de Centroamérica, conecta los hemisferios norte y sur, el oeste y el sur del mundo, el Pacífico y el Atlántico, y el conjunto de las Américas como Mesoamérica. Sin embargo, un istmo no se limita a una mera descripción geográfica.
ISTMO mira las múltiples configuraciones de los imaginarios del istmo resistiendo directamente las conceptualizaciones hegemónicas de América Latina, tanto a nivel regional como reproducidas en la diáspora. ISTMO pregunta qué podría significar centrar el puente, la zona fronteriza, el punto intermedio. Lo que puede significar pensar, crear y practicar desde el istmo como lugar de morada.