Earth Movements, Pedro Donoso’s Book Release

EARTH MOVEMENTS, PEDRO DONOSO’S BOOK RELEASE

As a link to the theme of the Flood, the book by the Chilean researcher, theorist and curator was presented at the SLA Center for Artistic Residencies on November 16 at 7:30 pm. The publication stems from an exhibition of the same name at the National Museum of Fine Arts during 2017 that brought together works by national and international artists, including Cecilia Vicuña, Catalina Correa, Patrick Steeger, Cristián Velasco, José Délano and Hamish Fulton, who performed different exercises and artistic interventions in the natural environment.

This book presents an extended research related to SACO´s curatorial proposal. It shows 35 works by different contemporary artists, whose ecological, political, social, and spatial motivations enable us to draw a more diverse cartography full of contrasts. Donoso offers a panoramic vision of possible intuitions and ways of thinking about the relationships, correspondences, and responsibilities between human beings and their natural environment, in a context of a profound climate crisis.

The researcher highlighted some important works made in the northern territory and that are part of his research, such as Neither Pain Nor Fear (1993) by Raúl Zurita, Rites of passage (2013-2014) by Juan Castillo, Foolish (2017) by Juana Guerrero, Water Cities (2016-2018) by Catalina González and Mixed Game by Dagmara Wyskiel (2013-2016). To conclude he shared some fragments of the documentary Earth Movements. Art and Nature (2018) directed by Matías Cardone, which complements his book.