Collective Rewilding
The Clemente is excited to be working with current LAZO residents and Latinx Spaces to produce and ongoing series of audio and video recordings with artists and curators. On May 28th, Alva Mooses (LAZO co-founder and Special Projects Consultant at The Clemente) met with curators Sara Garzón and Ameli Klein to learn more about their collaborative curatorial project Collective Rewilding which they founded with Croatian curator Sabina Oroshi. They are planning a roundtable discussion to take place at The Clemente later this year.
The curatorial laboratory Collective Rewilding discusses the broader question, how can we make curation a site for collective rewilding? Working with local art spaces, local communities, and local ecosystems, Collective Rewilding explores ways to establish systems of care and multi-species flourishing. Starting with the exhibition The Cartographic Impulse, which featured a group of Latin American artists in Venice, Collective Rewilding has been, ever since then, working in the intersection between territory, nature, and care. Despite its cancellation due to the COVID 19 pandemic, the exhibition revolved around the work of the artists Kiyo Gutierrez (Mexico), Javier Calvo (Costa Rica), Paul Rosero (Ecuador), Adrian Balseca (Ecuador), Katherine Fiedler (Peru), and Andres Pereira Paz (Bolivia).
Collective Rewilding is an international curatorial working group and non-profit organization founded in 2020 by Sara Garzón, Ameli Klein, and Sabina Oroshi. Concerned about environmental sustainability, instituting a culture of care, and adapting to our ever-shifting notions of territory, Collective Rewilding seeks to explore the larger question: How do we curate for a broken world? We see curatorial practice today as one that must inquire into modes of looking that can foster new orientations towards our collective sense of vulnerability. Convened to think about platforms for care, we suggest critical new examinations and optical perspectives that can help us unpack histories of resistance, knowledge exchange, and networks of artistic solidarity against colonial and Anthropocenic structures of power.
Images below are of artworks by Javier Calvo and Kiyo Gutiérrez for the exhibition The Cartographic Impulse and an independent artist workspace in Venice.
Audio recording by Doug Berns at Fenimore Studios | Music by Cumbia River Band: PANTERA, written and produced by Martín Vejarano