The project of the collaborative and expository exhibition The future is gone: Cimarron Anti-Futurism, with the curandería* of Yuderkys Espinosa-Miñoso and Katia Sepúlveda, invites a group of previously selected individual and collective activist and community artists to be part of a process of collective creation based on using their experiences and enunciative positions to reflect on a series of texts and contexts that hopefully announce the disappearance of Europe and its world project based on the conquer ego.

The entire process involves a year-long theoretical and practical seminar/laboratory with virtual sessions once a month in which we will reflect, debate and imagine based on the questions What would the world be like if Europe (as a trope) disappeared? What would it be like if it had never existed? How has time been experienced outside the historical time of European modernity?

For this we will use a series of previously selected texts and creative works, in addition to the contributions that the context and experience of each participant/creator bring to the collective space. The methodology is sufficiently open to events and to surprise. We propose to make work meetings a space for encounter, recognition and thinking in mutual relation.

At the same time as these meetings are held, the participating artists will be thinking, feeling, imagining, experimenting and producing their own work and helping to create a collective work that will be the result of the entire process of accompaniment and conversation. Each work session will thus be a creative laboratory in which artists will share and accompany each other in the different stages of design and creation of their works and of the collective work. The methodology of each meeting includes exercises in energy attunement, group reading and discussion, creative exercises and exercises of experimentation with another language in addition to writing.

This exhibition and research project  is a co-production of La Virreina Centre de la Imatge and Arts Santa Mònica.