About
About
Tilting Axis 4
presents
Caribbean Cultural Ecologies:
Connecting Pasts, Presents and Futures
(May 31st - June 2nd, 2018)
Hosted by Centro León and Centro Cultural de España in Santo Domingo in collaboration with Curando Caribe. Santiago and Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
The fourth convening of Tilting Axis is set to take place in the Dominican Republic in collaboration with Curando Caribe and two institutions — Centro León and Centro Cultural de España in Santo Domingo — between two cities — Santiago and Santo Domingo — as we aim to shift our location and context to the Hispanophone Caribbean with our theme Caribbean Cultural Ecologies: Connecting Pasts, Presents and Futures. Artists, curators, stakeholders, instigators and activists will debate ideas about the Caribbean’s interdependent future in relation to culture, the nature, technology and the role of institutions while sharing creative ways which reimagine our collective futures in relationship with our particular environment and with each other.
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Spanish:
La cuarta edición de Tilting Axis será realizada en la República Dominicana en colaboración con Curando Caribe y dos instituciones -Centro León y Centro Cultural de España en Santo Domingo- en dos ciudades -Santiago y Santo Domingo- con el interés de situarnos en el Caribe hispanoparlante para abordar el tema Ecologías Culturales Caribe: Conectando Pasados, Presentes y Futuros. Artistas, curadores, investigadores, activistas e interesados debatirán sobre la interdependencia cultural y su futuro en el Caribe; su relación con la naturaleza, tecnología y el rol de las instituciones al tiempo que compartirán maneras creativas de repensar nuestros futuros colectivos en relación con nuestros entornos particulares y con otros territorios.
French:
La quatrième édition de Tilting Axis aura lieu en République Dominicaine, en collaboration avec deux institutions–Centro León et Centro Cultural de España–et dans deux villes–Santiago et Saint Domingue–afin de changer notre emplacement et contexte aux Caraïbes hispanophones avec le thème Écologies culturelles des Caraïbes: Reliant les passés, présents et avenirs. Artistes, conservateurs, intervenants, instigateurs et militants débâteront des idées sur l’avenir interdépendant des Caraïbes en ce qui concerne la culture, la nature, la technologie et le rôle des institutions tout en partageant des façons créatives de repenser nos avenirs collectifs par rapport à notre environnement particulier et les uns par rapport aux autres.
Dutch:
De vierde bijeenkomst van Tilting Axis zal plaatsvinden in de Dominicaanse Republiek in samenwerking met Curando Caribe en de instituties - Centro León en Centro Cultural de España in Santo Domingo – tussen twee steden - Santiago en Santo Domingo - omdat we ernaar streven om onze locatie en context te verplaatsen naar de Hispanophone Caribbean met het thema Caribbean Cultural Ecologies: Connecting Pasts, Presents and Futures. Kunstenaars, curatoren, aandeelhouders en activisten zullen ideeën bespreken over de onafhankelijke toekomst van het Caribisch gebied met betrekking tot cultuur, de natuur, technologie en de rol van instituties. Tegelijkertijd delen we onze collectieve gedachten in relatie tot onze specifieke omgeving en tot elkaar.
Event Programme
Speakers
Speakers
Keynote Speaker:
Rita Indiana Hernández
Skaters and drag queens, DIY Dominican Cultural Ecology
Skaters y drag queens, ecología cultural DIY dominicana
In Santo Domingo of the 90s, subcultures flourish and, with them, practices and discourses that enabled a new ethical platform for artistic production. City and precariousness, self-management and spectacle.
En el Santo Domingo de los 90 florecen las subculturas y, con ellas, prácticas y discursos que habilitaron una nueva plataforma ética para la producción artística. Ciudad y precariedad, autogestión y espectáculo.
Rita Indiana is a Dominican writer, songwriter and singer. She published the novels La estrategia de Chochueca (2000), Papi (2004), Nombres y Animales (2014) and La Mucama de Omicunlé (2015.) The latter was a finalist of the Vargas Llosa Novel Biennial in 2016, which was the first novel in Spanish to receive the Prize of the Association of Writers of the Caribbean. Her literary and musical discourse is nourished by the culture, the marginal and popular Dominican language as well as by diverse Afro-Caribbean magical-religious traditions. In 2009 she reinvented merengue and other folk rhythms in electro fusion with her group "Los misterios". In "Made in Saturn", her most recent novel, she visits the nostalgic relations between Cuba and the Dominican Republic and the ideological devastation in both from the point of view of a protagonist who receives treatment for his addiction to heroin in a clinic/hotel in Havana.
Rita Indiana es una escritora, compositora y cantante dominicana. Tiene publicadas las novelas La estrategia de Chochueca (2000), Papi (2004), Nombres y Animales (2014) y La Mucama de Omicunlé (2015). La ultima fue finalista a la bienal de novela Vargas Llosa 2016 y la primera novela en español en recibir el Premio de la Asociación de escritores del Caribe. Su creación literaria y musical se nutre de la cultura y el lenguaje marginal y popular dominicano así como de diversas tradiciones magico-religiosas afrocaribeñas. En 2009 reinventó el merengue y otros ritmos folclóricos en fusiones electro con su agrupación “Los misterios”. En Hecho en Saturno, su más reciente novela, visita las relaciones nostálgicas entre Cuba y República Dominicana y la devastación ideológica en ambas a partir de un protagonista que recibe tratamiento para su adicción a la heroína en una clínica/hotel de La Habana.
Speakers
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Sobremesas
Conscious of the geographical context in which the fourth iteration of Tilting Axis is taking place, the core team is pleased to include a new conversational exchange format in this year's programme, inspired by a Dominican tradition called Sobremesa. Sobremesas are informal, relaxed conversations that typically happen after meals, with coffee, and are characterised by ease and the open sharing that often takes place in kitchens, across the Caribbean.
Each session will be allotted 45 minutes, providing two specially invited guests with an opportunity to engage in conversation, exploring natural overlaps in their practice or philosophies. The wider group of Tilting Axis participants will be invited to bring their coffee and listen in on the Sobremesa.
Panels
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Panel 1
Culture and Nature: From Cultural Establishments to Cultural Ecologies
Panel 2
In(Stitutional): Acting in the Wake of Change
Panel 3
The Future, Where Are We Going?
Pop Up Presentations
Tilting Axis is keen to have a better understanding of critical local, Caribbean, and diasporic projects that we might not be aware of, we have decided to introduce a suite of daily pop-up presentations into the forum. Each session will be allotted 10 minutes, providing Caribbean practitioners or those working within diaspora-based communities opportunities to share their projects and update us on continuing works. This is a way to form and ensure a more inclusive and socially oriented dialogue with such a large gathering.
Ideas Lab
Moderators will spark discussions on topics related to each day's panel theme. Participants will debate in smaller groups and then share their ideas with the larger crowd.
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Credits
Credits
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