Tanda: Los Nuevos Ayllus: Collaborative Resistance and Pedagogical Resonances from the Global South | Olenka Macassi & Rodrigo Carazas Portal

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As members of the latine diaspora, artists and educators, we want to help highlight and frame the mutual-help efforts of our communities as methods of teaching and resistance. From WhatsApp groups to major artist collectives, we wish to dig deeper into the micro practices that help our cultures mutate during our dispersion around the globe. How is this data disseminated? What does it look like? Who has access to it? Why are they important?

Olenka Macassi and Rodrigo Carazas Portal are core members of R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O. (The Research Institute on Cannibal Opportunism Repository of Obsessive Bobo-lutionary Obsolescence). A cultural production bureau specialized in scratching, remixing and hacking the corporate and institutional consumption of Latin(x)(o)(a)(e)(+) narratives in the Americas. Roleplaying with commercial and academic business models, R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O harvests a counter-manipulation agenda through transgressive knowledge exchange, site-specific interventions and cross-border research.

R.I.C.O. R.O.B.O. is a current member of New Museum’s NEW INC. Recent public programs include “Looking 👀” an itinerant plaza presented at New Lab (New York City), a conversation with Helena Lugo for Untitled Art Podcast (Miami) and “Amix, Lo Siento” a short story published by Terremoto (Mexico City).

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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