Disappearing Landscapes
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Public Talk II

DISAPPEARING LANDSCAPES

DISAPPEARING LANDSCAPES

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conversation II.
COLONIAL DARKNESS, DELIRIUM AND VEGETAL DESIRE: parasitic reverberations of Cinchona

In this discussion, we will think about the problem of opacity, darkness, absence and ignorance about pre-Columbian knowledge. We will emphasize the bodily dimension of the relationship between human, malaria and quina. Here the issue of the ecology of malaria, the issue of the lagoon and oblivion, of the omission in the range of colonial practices on the tree: what the enlightenment represses and produces, the repression of pre-Columbian knowledge, the dimension of the unconscious and the pulsional, the problem of light and darkness in the concrete practices around the tree, etc.

Participants
Juliana Hurtado, Bárbara Santos, Andrea Lehner, Juan Arturo García.
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Moderator
Santiago Arcila

April 30, 2024
NADA

Bogotá, Colombia

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Disappearing Landscapes is a live project of artistic & philosophical research that investigates:

  1. The production of knowledge and ignorance about quinine and the Cinchona tree, which was endemic to the forests of the Andes and is now practically extinct.
  2. The networks that connected the South American forests with the industrial landscape of their exploitation in the Netherlands, and around the world.
  3. An aspiration to make these histories and their reverberations tangible.

This project has received the kind support of Stimuleringsfonds Creative Funds NL.

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