Tanda: LL Proyectos. Auto-Constructed Pathways in the Central American Art Scene | Karon Sabrina Corrales

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During these years, being an independent curator in a country that has no support for contemporary art teaches you to find your own alternative routes to work. Despite the lack of support for Central America and particularly Honduran art; we decided to start our own project and address this in some sort of way. LL proyectos, has been able to shapeshift as the need arose; this mutability of being able to transpose from one set of circumstances to another was part of our survival strategy in this chaotic country we are part of. This shapeshift capacity has turned our projects into a series of “nomadic thinking projects”; open to encounters with others; building transversal alliances. With this unstable and constant movement of the city we found ourselves in the need to create our own alternative back routes; our self-made pathways and workarounds; learning as always to create altered spaces of our own.

Karon Sabrina Corrales is a cultural producer, art manager and currently independent curator. In 2016 she co-founded LL Proyectos, an independent contemporary art project in Tegucigalpa, Honduras with artist and curator Leonardo Gonzalez. She was selected for the 12th Berlin Biennale Curators Workshop that was curated and directed by Reem Shadid. In 2021 she was part of the Young Curators Academy as part of 5th Berliner Herbstsalon of the Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin. In 2021 she was awarded the Prince Claus Seed Award by the Prince Claus Fund. She was head of programmes for the Museo del Hombre Hondureño in Tegucigalpa, and Cultural producer for the Spanish Cultural Center in Tegucigalpa, Honduras.

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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