Más Arte Más Acción connects the Colombian rainforest and its peoples with the German forest in a series of projects in Kassel.
usurros de los escarabajos de la corteza (Whispers of the Bark Beetles), installation by Más Arte Más Acción inside the Karlsaue Park greenhouse at documenta15 in Kassel. Photo: C&AL
Werner, a mobile platform created in collaboration with Más Arte Más Acción and Atelier Van Lieshout in Karlsaue Park, at documenta15 in Kassel. Foto: C&AL
El caminar cómo diálogos posibles (Walking as Possible Dialogues), activity at Karlsaue Park by Más Arte Más Acción, at documenta15 in Kassel. Photo: C&AL
For documenta15, Más Arte Más Acción (MAMA), a Colombian non-profit organization, has prepared a series of activities designed to reflect on climate change and deforestation. Together with Atelier Van Lieshout, the group created MAMA Doc Space, which will host discussions and film screenings, as well as Werner, a mobile platform that navigates uncharted territories to find new ways of living. In addition, they will present an installation made from the trunks of bark beetle-infested trees, alongside soundscapes from different parts of Colombia, inside the Karlsaue Park greenhouse.
MAMA has also invited the public to engage in discussions in the park, such as Walking as Possible Dialogues, which took place on June 22, and included Fausto Moreno and Osneyder Valoy, who live in the Chocó region in Colombia; Karlsaue park authorities; the researcher Sina Ribak; and José Fernando Serrano, one of the MAMA participants. The group visited several spots around the park and discussed environmental issues in Colombia and Germany, seeking touchpoints.
In July and September, MAMA will host two more series of activities, focusing on climate justice and environmental rights, memory, the peace process, alternative ways of living in biodiverse territories, and Afro cinema narratives, among others.
MAMA Doc Space created in collaboration with Más Arte Más Acción and Atelier Van Lieshout in Karlsaue Park, at documenta15 in Kassel. Photo: C&AL
El caminar cómo diálogos posibles (Walking as Possible Dialogues) event at Karlsaue park by Más Arte Más Acción, at documenta15 in Kassel. Photo: C&AL
Today we can say with nostalgia and with the sense of a forgotten people, that nature is giving us back, with its larger tides, the garbage we have thrown on its shores, which weaken the Guayacanes trees of the houses hammered by climate change. (Osneyder Veloy and Fausto Moreno)
Group gathers to chat around one of the oldest trees in Karlsaue Park. Part of the activity Walking as Possible Dialogues, by Más Arte Más Acción, at documenta15 in Kassel. Photo: C&AL
Group discusses the experience of walking through the park at MAMA Doc Space, created in collaboration with Más Arte Más Acción and Atelier Van Lieshout in Karlsaue Park, at documenta15 in Kassel. Photo: C&AL
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