QUARANTINE PROJECT

Wildness For Others Orders • Locuras para otros órdenes –

Yohanna M Roa. curatorial project – 2020
collective exhibition – FUNHI.org

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With the arrival of the pandemic, confinement, and social isolation have become ways of life and production. The house, the apartment, the kitchen, the room, or the closet become places of permanent work, contemplation and production of knowledge.

We live in constant negotiation with the space we inhabit, its objects, food, our bodies, and our minds. Communication with the outside has become a virtual experience. The notion of time has also been transformed; the days pass one after another and it is increasingly difficult for us to imagine the future. In this indeterminate “new world,” we transform the routine of the present into creative acts.

Throughout history, private spaces have been used to exercise personal autonomy and as spaces of resistance against all kinds of erasure, memories and stories. The personal sphere as a space of imagination, recognition, self-learning, self-contemplation, desire, eroticism and self-representation. The creative act becomes a body; We recognize it as the way to live.

This allows us to rethink art’s role in people’s lives when it is outside the public sphere and personal and private spaces become the center of people’s lives. It also reminds us of non-Western artistic ideas and practices; for example, there was no separation between daily life and art in pre-Columbian or pre-Hispanic cultures. Countless objects, amphoras, painted walls, and textiles allow us to visualize how they relate to the world.

Suddenly, many actions, reactions, interventions, performances, poems, writings, songs, sounds, and, daily records are altered and represent ways of knowing and interacting with space and with ourselves, languages, politics, poetics, and forms of organization. In which we reinvent ourselves to understand the moment and our uncertainty.

At this crucial moment, we have opened a space on our website to disseminate, make visible and share permanent or ephemeral interventions that claim the use we are giving to private and personal spaces. All proposals are accepted: sound, moving images, literature, photography, objects, interventions, installations and actions.