ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning): Contemporary & and Terremoto
Tuesday, March 16, 2021
ALT(ering) + SHIFT(ing) + COMM(uning) will welcome Will Fredo Furtado, deputy editor of Contemporary &, and Diego Del Valle Ríos, editor-in-chief of Terremoto, for a conversation on editorial work as curatorial practice. The event will address the role of contemporary art magazines in the development and circulation of new forms of knowledge that are rooted in decolonial and queer critical thinking.
Contemporary & (C&) is an art magazine and a dynamic space for issues and information on contemporary art from Africa and its global diaspora. Co-founded in 2013 by Julia Grosse and Yvette Mutumba and co-published by ifa, C& has gained a worldwide reach. In addition to the editorial content published online and in print, C& also runs multiple offline projects including critical-writing workshops and mentoring programs, as well as site-specific and traveling exhibitions. Contemporary & América Latina (C&AL) is C&’s sister platform, which launched in 2018. Co-published by the Goethe-Institut and ifa, C&AL is a critical art magazine which focuses on the connection between Afro-Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa.
Will Fredo Furtado is C&’s deputy editor and was previously the art and digital editor at Sleek Magazine. In their artistic practice, Will works with images and text to explore decoloniality and the intersection of pop culture, kuirness, Blackness and technology.
Terremoto is an independent, not-for-profit organization based in Mexico City that advocates the dissemination of critical thinking around contemporary art in ‘the Americas.’ Through a quarterly magazine and six online sections, Terremoto follows editorial lines that bring together decolonial, transfeminist, and queer/cuir artistic and curatorial practices, as well as those beyond the mentioned academic jargon, all looking to challenge the status quo in art and culture. Founded by curator Dorothée Dupuis in 2013, the magazine was an initiative started between her and curator Natalia Valencia and is now continued by Diego del Valle Ríos, the current editor-in-chief. Since the first issue in 2015, Terremoto has published more than 300 bilingual essays, conversations, interviews, and critiques over 19 issues. Diego del Valle Ríos is a cultural manager and independent writer and editor. He has been the editor-in-chief of Terremoto since 2017. Previously, while living in Guadalajara, he has worked at Arena México Arte Contemporáneo, in Taller Mexicano de Gobelinos, Páramo Galería and the Diéresis Collection. He is part of the independent study group Círculo Permanente de Estudios Independientes, Menos Foucault Más Shakira. He recently participated in the editorial project Crónicas de sangre impura, co-edited with Andrea Pacheco through Felipa Manuela.
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Suggested readings:
Contemporary & + Contemporary & América Latina:
The Legacies of Two Pioneering Female Artists Help Us Fill Kenya’s Historical Fractures
How Warhol Erased the Identity of His Black Trans Sitters
Art Functions as an Instrument of Struggle for Indigenous Populations
Cities Are Indigenous Burial Grounds
Terremoto:
Comunidad Catrileo+Carrión: Mapuche Non-Binary Utopias for an Epupillan Present
Finding Kindred, Beyond Blood or Border
“Post-Putismo” and Utopia
The Black Angel of History and the Age of Necrocapitalism
Epidermia
