The Current IV: Caribbean

Yina Jiménez Suriel
 

Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic
 

Juan Almonte, Víctor Arcturus Estrella, Yasmín Evangelista, Nadia Huggins, Yina Jiménez Suriel, Monique Johnson, Patricia Molina, Markus Reymann, Daymé del Toro, danie valencia sepúlveda, among others.
 

December 8, 2023
4:00 pm
Welcome remarks
With Markus Reymann, co-director of TBA21, and Yina Jiménez Suriel, curator

4:30 pm
Vamos a nadar hasta convertirnos en corales [Let's swim until we become corals]
Workshop with Patricia Molina, psychologist, Nadia Huggins, artist, and Yasmín Evangelista, marine biologist


December 9, 2023
9:30 am
Welcome remarks of the second day
With Markus Reymann, co-Director of TBA21, and Yina Jiménez Suriel, curator

10:00 am
Coral and Ash
Screening of the film by Nadia Huggins

10:30 am
embriones de tiempo persiguiendo la vida: 
otras formas de transmutar el caos y romper con la fábrica de mundos
[embryos of time chasing life: 
other ways to transmute chaos and break with the factory of worlds]
Keynote by danie valencia sepúlveda, errorist and educator, followed by a Q&A session 

11:30 am
Keynote by Juan Almonte, paleontologist, followed by a Q&A session 

1:00 pm
How to Move Like the Ocean (Liquefaction, Lubrication & Expansion in Twelve Easy Steps) 
Screening of the film byTemitope Ajose-Cutting and Quinn Latimer

2:30 pm
Improvisation workshop
With Daymé del Toro, contemporary dancer and choreographer

4:30 pm
Somos Los Cenotes, episode 4 [We Are The Cenotes, episode 4]
Formations, episode 2 
La Cueva Taina [The Taino Cave]
Screening of the films by DRSS, speleologists

4:45 pm
Circa no future 
Screening of the film by Nadia Huggins

5:00 pm
Workshop with Monique Johnson, volcanologist and Víctor Estrella, artist

7:00 pm
El espacio que habito, soy ave marina [The space I inhabit, I am a seabird]
Contemporary dance performance directed by Daymé del Toro, staged by Erick Roque & Patricia Ortega. 
 

TEMITOPE AJOSE-CUTTING is a choreographer, dancer and movement director who staged works for the Royal Opera House, The Place, DanceXchange, RichMix, Dancebase and the Soho Joyce (New York), among others.

JUAN ALMONTE is the curator of the fossil vertebrate collection of the National Museum of Natural History Prof. Eugenio de Jesús Marcano, with more than 25 years dedicated to exploration and paleontological studies in the Caribbean. 

VÍCTOR ARCTURUS ESTRELLA is an actor, writer, rapper, and interdisciplinary artist trained in physical theater, masks, and comedy, graduated from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama in London.

DRSS is a nonprofit organization and a member of the Federación Espeleológica de América Latina y el Caribe, representing the Dominican Republic in exploratory and conservation missions of submerged caves.

YASMÍN EVANGELISTA is a scientific diver, a rescue diver, and a biology student at the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo where she researches coral health at spatial and temporal scales.

NADIA HUGGINS is a visual artist whose photography work merges documentary and conceptual practices, exploring belonging, identity, and memory through a contemporary approach focused on re-presenting Caribbean landscapes and the sea.

YINA JIMÉNEZ SURIEL is a curator, researcher and the Curatorial Fellow of TBA21–Academy's The Current IV, a three years research project entitled otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua.

MONIQUE JOHNSON is an Earth scientist exploring the impacts of geological hazards in the Eastern Caribbean, including the barriers and capacities for disaster risk reduction in Caribbean Societies.

QUINN LATIMER is a California-born poet, critic, and editor whose work often explores feminist economies of writing, reading, and moving-image production.

PATRICIA MOLINA is a clinical psychologist and yoga and meditation instructor specializing in crisis and trauma and the founder of "Surya, Holistic Health", a space for complementary therapies and care from a biopsychosocial and spiritual perspective.

PATRICIA ORTEGA is a dancer, teacher and choreographer with more than 10 years of experience in contemporary dance. She is a manager and producer of alternative spaces for the exhibition, dissemination, analysis and reflection of dance.

MARKUS REYMANN is Co-Director of TBA21. He co-founded TBA21–Academy as the foundation’s research arm for fostering a deeper relationship with the Ocean and other bodies of water.

DAYMÉ DEL TORO is a dancer, teacher, and choreographer of the National Company of Contemporary Dance and master choreographer of the National School of Dance in the Dominican Republic.

danie valencia sepúlveda is an errorist, educator, translator, cultural programmer, and independent researcher, the founder of a counter-pedagogical research platform, Permanent Circle of Independent Studies and editor-in-chief of the Terremoto magazine.
 

The Current IV: Caribbean: "otras montañas, las que andan sueltas bajo el agua" (other mountains, adrift beneath the waves)

Curated by Yina Jiménez Suriel, The Current IV, 2023–2025, intends to contribute to the emancipatory processes in the region that have sought to bring its inhabitants closer to the Ocean and that began in the high mountains above sea level. The project will focus on identifying, studying, and spreading the knowledge of the aesthetic strategies and tools generated from the Maroon experience in the Caribbean through the production of aesthetic thought, based on the premise that this approach will bring us closer to inhabiting the mountains that are below the level of the Caribbean Sea, as they were aesthetic practices that sought to reconcile the human body with the constant movement — the Ocean.