La continuidad de los bosques (The Continuity of Forests)
Minia Biabiany, Jackie Karuti, Isadora Neves Marques, Laura Sofía Pérez, María Isabel Rueda, Ricardo Ariel Toribio, Truong Công Tùng, and Ana Vaz KADIST and Beta Local are pleased to present La continuidad de los bosques. Watch it on KADIST.tv through December 20, 2023 La continuidad de los bosques (The Continuity of Forests) features eight videos by artists who live or were born in the pantropical zone of our planet, or who explore plants and earth as a connecting axis in their practice. Understanding the flexibility of these regions, the natural context is an integral part of culture, not through totalizing models but rather from porous and fluid idiosyncrasies, in and beyond the basic conceptions of what usually is defined as tropical. These works offer diverse approaches and views on how the land is inhabited. The screening is the outcome of conversations with Beta Local with the research of Amelia Merced, a botanist from Puerto Rico who specializes in bryophytes which are a diverse group of plants that are distributed among the world, such as mosses, understanding the ability of these plants to inhabit many places in a mostly imperceptible way. La continuidad de los bosques invites us to think of how the connections (or the desire for connections) between apparently unconnected territories are thought of from other coordinates and perspectives. La continuidad de los bosques is a screening program organized in collaboration with Beta Local, presented at Casa Klumb in San Juan, Puerto Rico on November 17, 2023. This collaboration is part of KADIST’s ongoing international program Double Takes , which activates film and video works through physical and online presentations at partner institutions and on KADIST.tv . Beta-Local is a San Juan-based non-profit organization founded in 2009 and dedicated to supporting and promoting cultural practices and transdisciplinary knowledge exchange. It was conceived as an organization by and for artists, responding to a state of permanent crisis and disinvestment in culture and public education in Puerto Rico.