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COM_UNIDAD

VIRTUAL RESIDENCY & ONLINE CO-OP COMMUNITY ART PROJECTS DEVELOPMENT

Community practices on the jungle (I), coast (II) and mountains (III) of Peru

We started this virtual residence to understand how to build a community in a distance context. We know that it is built if we have things in common and this is achieved through communication (Dewey, 1998 [1916]). In COM_UNIDAD we seek to link ourselves through collaborative and cooperative practices to understand the community origin that happens in our territory [Today: Peru] from ancestral societies

Deep, tropical, community and ecological (De sousa, 2009), our country offers different axes that we assume as part of this research; the historical, cultural, social and geographical configure different artistics, pedagogics and management possibilities that seek to operate under the objective of rethinking community practices from the context and culture of each involved’s origin.
For three months we worked together, residents, collaborators and coordinators in an exercise of dialogue, cultural exchange and analysis of traditional art, community practices, ancestral worldview, social organization, and cultural practices and expressions that take place on the coast, mountains and jungle of Peru.

We address the management of cultural projects, artistic education and the introduction to archaeological practices in order to maintain the continuity of community work from the context of isolation and social distancing that forces art workers to find new ways of communication, interaction and involvement in times of Sars-Cov-19.
COMMUNITY hosts four different geographies -Argentina, the United States, Mexico and Peru- through nine contemporary creators, which represents the same number of ways of understanding and building community. We can understand a first group from the health and political emergencies of the current context: The marikas present from the South beginning - La chuquichinchay, the wari warmis, the antis, among others - are approached by Abril urgently in view of the imminent null marika agenda from the incoming government; Cristina approaches the female perspective of mourning and memory during a pandemic from an exercise in catharsis; Andrea questions the power relations exercised by the educational space to revolutionize students; and, María Claudia finds a series of possibilities that circulate the archive, associativity and resilience in the marginal space.

A second group of concerns orbit within the relational aspect of living beings: The ecological is present in the hydrographic map of Peru proposed by Arnaldo, where memory, identity and awareness of the maintenance of our continental waters are built; the river is a biological highway that connects the Abya yala, in which Damian finds possibilities for organization from the margins; the gestural for Roxana is a communication way and a performative experimentation strategy that allows to build affections, Sebastián, through actions that border on the absurd, influences social groups that are not understood as a community; finally, listening is for Yessica a vehicle to find community between geographically extreme food centers.




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DIGITAL PUBLICATION

The COM_UNIDAD # 1 Catalog is an archive publication, dissemination and reflection of the contents and projects carried out during the virtual residency developed during March [Selva], April [Costa] and May [Sierra] by nine artists from Argentina, United States, Mexico and Peru..




CONCLUSIONS

We leave behind three months of research and reflection, however a path awaits us where the results of this residency configure a constellation of initiatives that are interconnected through tools, strategies or common concerns. Nine execution and management challenges that we assume as an organization from the support, accompaniment and endurance with the intention of belonging to new communities

To the projects: we wish them a community development of constant trial and error that allows them to achieve their objectives and build new questions through future reflections to propose new goals that extend our collaboration.
To the artists: we thank you for building with us a community that continues asking what it means to be it. Correlación Contemporánea is an organization in progress that is built through collaborative work, of which Abril, Andrea, Arnaldo, Cristina, Damina, Maria Claudia, Roxana, Sebastián and Yessica are now part.

To the collaborators: Guissepe and José, thank you for rescuing and reaffirming the presence of the community from our ancestral origins; Félix, Christian, Edward, Gonzalo (Hogares de memoria) and Teodoro thank you for managing a series of projects that keep our original and contemporary production alive. imua Pablo ÿutsurupaki marikua mainaniari kumitsa kukama riai ÿatiri tanamuki ini uwaritsuika. Finally Héctor, Josefina and Sandra thank you for your experiences, contributions and support to the projects and to our management.



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