Warming up to the Pluriverse #6: On being plural

In this sixth Warming Up talk, we meet Camila Marambio – a being as plural as the worlds she inhabits, falls in love with, and seeks to protect. Camila is the founder/director of Ensayos, a nomadic interdisciplinary research program that has been collectively unraveling the eco politics of the archipelago of Karokynka a.k.a. Tierra del Fuego for about a decade now. Camila completed her Phd in Curatorial Practice at Monash University, Melbourne with both a TV web series “DISTANCIA" and an exegesis (a critical explanation or interpretation of a text) with the title: ‘DISTANCIA: A measure of intimacy.’ Besides all this, Camila identifies and plays with the roles of private investigator, eco-sexual, permaculture enthusiast, and flautón chino player/dancer. Her home base is in Papudo, a coastal town two hours north of Santiago de Chile.

A mesmerising talk about cosmic changes, circular stories, a pluriversal owl and the notion of with-with.

References

• Ensayos
  ensayostierradelfuego.net
  “Corona under the ocean. The see undoes the land”
  Tba21-academy – Corona-under-the-ocean-the-sea-undoes-the-land-w-camila-marambio
  Web series “DISTANCIA" (co-directed with Carolina Saquel)
  www.ladistancia.tv/
• Four of the chapters from the exegesis “DISTANCIA: A measure of intimacy” have been published as separate essays:
  www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.108…22.2020.1831805
  brooklynrail.org/special/RIVER_RA…l/The-Go-Between
  www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.108…49.2020.1774865
  www.discipline.net.au/
• In 2021 Camila will be a post-doc fellow at The Seed Box: An Environmental Humanities Collaboratory (Linköping University (LiU), Sweden). Her work there will be centred on her forthcoming book Sandcastles: cancerous bodies and their necro/powers co-authored with gender scholar Nina Lykke.
  theseedbox.se/
  kerb-journal.com/articles/triptych-of-viral-tales
  ninalykke.net/about/
• Eco-sexual
  sexecology.org/
• In the cosmic weather report that opens this talk, Camila speaks of a possible shift to the era of Aquarius.
  earthsky.org/human-world/when-w…-of-aquarius-begin
  mobile.facebook.com/106381397697619…w.google.com%2F
• The Chilean town of Papudo on the Pacific is located on a fault line. “Every evening it shakes, it tremors.”
  www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/archivos2/pd…C0064447.pdf
  www.municipalidadpapudo.cl/emergencia.pdf
  link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02042278
• The flautón chino is a “two-in-one” instrument used as a “spiritual technology” in the Andes. Its players are called dancers.
  boletinmuseoprecolombino.cl/wp/wp-conte…rtic.-2.pdf
  www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/archivos2/pd…C0038283.pdf
• “We all make beginners’ mistakes”. Some of Camila’s mentors and elders, whom she wishes to acknowledge in guiding her on her path, include artist Cecilia Vicuña, Kombumerri philosopher Mary Graham, conservation biologist Bárbara Saavedra, and the poet Fidel Sepulveda.
  www.ceciliavicuna.com/news
  polsis.uq.edu.au/profile/2235/mary-graham
  chile.wcs.org/Nosotros/Personal/Search/Equipo.aspx
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fidel_Sepulveda_Llanos
• El con-con
  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rufous-legged_owl
  www.konkon.cl/
• Cosmological Garden Course, Center of Arts, Design and Social Research (CAD+SR).
  centerartsdesign.org/
• Mesoderm
  biologydictionary.net/mesoderm/
• Artists Christy Gast and Caitlin Franzmann are fellow Ensayistas.ensayostierradelfuego.net/programs/ens…tic-connect/
• Greg Lehman and Julie Gough are Tasmanian friends and mentors.www.utas.edu.au/alumni/our-alumni…essor-greg-lehman
  juliegough.net/brief-biography/

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