Shadows Travel at the Speed of Light: Notes on Latin American Futurity

In the face of multiple climatic, social, and health emergencies, the future has become one of the most contested sites of political and artistic concern.

Colombian curator Sara Garzón and Ecuadorian artist Oscar Santillán discuss the role that Latin American Indigenous technologies have played in advancing worldings beyond the future. A continuation of Garzón's research into Latin American futures, which led last year to the editorial "Worldmaking Practices" hosted by Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, this conversation engages topics of technology, science fiction and Latin American futurity, allyship, kinship, solidarity, and reciprocity. Garzón and Santillán present together a series of thoughts, questions, and notes on the subject, while reviewing artistic experiments ranging from Futurism in the New World Avant-Garde to Santillán's Chewing Gum Codex (2018-20), Solaris (2017), and The Woman and the Robot (2021).

This event is free and open to the public.

This program was supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew M. Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.