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

Yinzk | TO-250423

Track 'Yammi' by Khaled Mouzanar, Charbel Khalil, Nisrine Hmaidan, Tania Saleh. 

Lyrics:
يمي ما تسكري عليي الباب 
أنا ناسي المفتاح ومفتاحك مش تحت العتبه يمي
يمي تركيلي مي أنا جاي تعبان
ما تعاتبيني يمي
يمي شلحوني تيابي صار بدن غسيل وكوي
ليش مافي كهربا والضو منو قوي 
يمي

From 'Where Do We Go Now' film Soundtrack.

Cover وهلأ لوين - يمي

YING YANG DOG - wank ft. C.SMITH (internet) prod. CRACK DEMARCO

Demos

i guess pt. 1

King Krule - What Stars? / Untitled

what i think of you

today

Black Diamond

Black Diamond (feat. Deem Spencer)

Chopdnscrewed HIER

soundcloud:tracks:529620066

what i think of you

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