Tanda: Afterlife Assemblage: Craft as Speculative Framework for Memorial Practice | Gabriel Moreno

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Our present moment is increasingly referred to as “the end times,” and I’ve been asking more earnestly “what happens after the end?” Aware that the end of the world has already happened for many civilizations, cultures, and species, it seems apparent we are already living in a condition of multiple afterlives. I want to explore what the concept of an afterlife can mean beyond traditional Christian frameworks of resurrection. Entering the subject through the material language of craft I hope to reflect, speculate, and dream how it can be a vessel for considering witness, memorial, and building in our time.

Gabriel Moreno is a multidisciplinary artist based in Chicago, Illinois. His practice is indexical and based in assemblage: culling forms, textures, narratives, and materials from the world in order to refigure it in objects and drawing. Attuned to how objects witness time, he utilizes research, design, participation, and craft processes flexibly to play with notions of history, memory, and endings.

Tanda is back with a new group of generous knowledge carriers ready to talk through the assembled afterlife, water’s relationship to the body, urban semiotics, auto-constructed pathways in the global south, and post-colonial story telling!

Josué Esaú will co-facilitate this Spring ’23 season. Josué participated in the Spring ’22 season with the topic: Mesofuturism: Reclaiming Historical Identity through Archiving and Critical Fabulation.

This season was pre-filled with applicants from the fall open call pool. We are grateful for the interest and word of mouth support that has grown this program to have enough applicants for two seasons.

Sessions are virtual, free, and open to the public. Closed captioning available. Recordings of Tandas are not posted online.

Tanda is a cohort program that aids individuals with their research and practice through self-directed and collective learning. It is a program providing time and space to gather, share, think and exchange conversations, resources, and knowledge on participants’ chosen topics and practices.

Co-Facilitator
Josué Esaú channels Mesoamerican cosmology, culture, and ritual to anchor reconnection with ancestry, land, and energy. Following the tradition of Afro- and Indigenous Futurisms, Esaú ventures the energetic middle spaces, spiritual-temporal portals and sites of future knowledge through the coined framework of Meso-Futurism. Aware of problematic pseudo-histories and distrust in science-fiction relationship to western ideas of progress and settler colonial time, Esaú creates garments, ritual devices, and collaborative performance as a mode of accountability, play, and care work to offer bridges to Maya space-time. He proposes ancient, plural ways to mark and enjoy time and space, entwining ourselves with the inherent rhythms of the earth, the cosmos and our co-inhabitants.

Tanda Spring 2023
Dates: Mondays, 03/27 – 05/01
Times: 6:30-8:30pm CT / 7:30-9:30 ET
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