In this conversation we talk with artist, traveller poet, and decolonial storyteller Aldo Ramos about his work on the pluriversity he is co-creating in Colombia. He tells about how he came to do this work, and why it is so important for the pluriversity to exist. Not in resistance to Western forms of knowledge, but as a form of re-existence. This knowledge is profoundly communal, relational and created by a weaving based on the South American concepts of sentipensar and buen vivir.

The pluriversity Aldo talks about is built and shared with many people, among others: Patricia Botero-Gomez, and Natalia Giraldo Jaramillo.

Book quoted:
Rolando Vázquez. Vistas of Modernity. Decolonial aesthesis and the end of the Contemporary. Jap Sam Books, 2020. (to be purchased here https://www.japsambooks.nl/collections/nieuwe-titels/products/vistas-of-modernity)

For more information on the concepts sentipensar and buen vivir:
Arturo Escobar, ´Thinking-feeling with the Earth: Territorial Struggles and the Ontological Dimension of the Epistemologies of the South´
https://www.aibr.org/antropologia/netesp/numeros/1101/110102e.pdf
 
Other books and sources about the Arhuacans and the Koguis:
Natalia Giraldo Jaramillo. Camino en espiral. Yo’ Sa Ingunu.
https://www.abebooks.com/9789587590760/Camino-espiral-Yo%E2%80%99-Ingunu-Natalia-9587590767/plp

Patricia Botero Gómez. Alicia Itatí Palermo. Rita de Cássia Alves Oliveira. Xochitl Leyva (eds.) Generaciones en movimientos y movimientos generacionales. Escribanías hechas a varias manos, varios pasos y corazones. 
https://www.clacso.org.ar/libreria-latinoamericana/buscar_libro_detalle.php?id_libro=1834&campo=titulo&texto=Generaciones%20en%20movimientos%20y%20movimientos%20generacionales

https://www.otraparte.org/agenda-cultural/literatura/no-digan-que-nadie-les-dijo-nada/ 
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=aluna

Photo by Diana Cantarey

#2 The pluriversity and knowledge as a weaving - with Aldo E. Ramos

Ymma Tierra - ‘Mother Earth’ in a combination of Hebrew and Spanish. Inspired by Ladino, the almost-lost language of the ancestral lineages of creatrix Samantha Levy. This experimental music project of loop pedal, nature sounds and acoustic singing dives deep into the ethereal landscape of spiritual connection to Place and ancient benevolent Ancestors. Bruchat at hashechinah. Praising the Divine Goddess - Source of creation pulsing presence. In gratitude for this life, these bodies, this breath, this voice. Singing up the land and our own heritage in processes of resourcing and resilience. The intention for this work is to uplift Spirit, inspire to action to stand behind and for the wisdom keepers whose bodies are this land, our own inheritance, replenishment of a future lush in natural habitat, and the other-than-human beings who offer us their gifts so generously.

Errant Journal is a cultural/political publication loosely inspired by Édouard Glissant´s notion of the Poetics of Relation in which he opposes ideas of centers, linearity, roots and dichotomy. Errant, meaning both ‘deviating from an accepted norm’ and ‘wandering’, represents a way of breaking free from the idea of identity based on origin and the possibility to possess a totality of knowledge. It is never the goal to know everything, to see and understand something in its entirety. Instead, a person who is ‘errant’ rejects the universal and challenges the idea that the world is transparent and explainable. 

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