Beginning of a map to escape from this place – book

Publishing House Ediciones Sinsentido
Independent Publishing House
Havana, Cuba 2018

How to map a human experience that involved a transdisciplinary journey and cross questions and motivations with foreign artists and theorists? How to share/coincide a personal story with a collective record of knowledge, thought and poetic construction? How to compose a book of imaginaries on past participation that transfigures a possible future of collaborations in time? Why now we are urged to publish this book? (…)

Beginning of a map to escape from this place is a book that portrays the polyphony of intentions and constructions that marked in different temporalities the encounter of its authors with Experimenta/sur¹. The intention is that these considerations are not isolated echoes. But pieces of a puzzle that draws landscapes on the place of the artist in the present time, the politics of the image, the affections and the sensitive fact of knowing the «other», a city and an artistic context. As well as coinciding with specialists and producing theoretical and artistic passages that intensify individual and collective research. To return now to those spaces of indetermination and reflection is to repeat those states, those principles, to raise new suspicions…

Fragments of the prologue by Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas.

¹ Experimenta/Sur is an international Living Arts platform created in 2013 and promoted in Latin America by the Siemens Stiftung Foundation, in association with the Goethe-Institut and Mapa Teatro – Laboratorio de Artistas de Bogotá.

CREDITS

Authors
Alessandra Santiesteban
Laura Liz Gil Echenique
Pedro E. Villarreal
Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas

Illustrations
Laura Liz Gil Echenique (notebook Sprache. Kultur. Deutschland with notes, drawings and shopping lists from Experimenta/sur V)

Design
Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas

Content editing
Martha Luisa Hernández Cadenas and Alessandra Santiesteban

You can read the book here.