Non plus ultra
South of Badajoz (Extremadura)
Location: South of Badajoz (Extremadura)
Period: 2023-2025
Period: 2023-2025
"Finding healthier ways of engaging with the land, beyond colonial and patriarchal discourses".
"Plus ultra" is the motto that Spain bears on its coat of arms, "beyond" in Latin, a phrase that harks back to the age of Empire, to the founding moment of colonial patriotic mythologies, to the plundering and expansion of borders overseas and the gestation of racism and imperial logic as a raison d'être, "conquiro ergo sum". "Plus ultra" encourages us to always go beyond, to go beyond all limits, the foundational logic of capitalism: the absurdity of infinite extraction and accumulation on a finite planet.
PROTAGONISTS
Artists
Principals
Young people from the diffuse urbanities of southern Badajoz
Mediadoras/es
Journal
Water gushes forth without warning
A meeting against drought through collective artistic practice
The limits of the territory
First meeting between Francesc Ruiz and the group of commissioners
The artist Francesc Ruiz has been chosen to respond to the challenge of drought and depopulation in the Non plus ultra project.
Over the next few months, it will develop an artistic proposal, in collaboration with a group of young people from the south of Badajoz, which will allow us to think of exciting futures that overcome the imaginary of desertification and abandonment of the land.
Non plus ultra' holds public meeting to claim the power of the unexpected in the face of climate crisis
The event "El agua brota sin avisar. An encounter against drought through art and memory", is aligned with the project's problematic, which invites us to approach the ecological crisis from an anti-imperial and decolonial perspective, together with the mediator, Jose Iglesias García-Arenal, and a group of six young people from the south of the province of Badajoz.
Ancestors and ghosts
An account of the progress of the Extremadura project and the process of imagining the artistic commission.
Searching for fossils
First of the stories that make up the mediation path initiated with the project.
The Extremadura project 'Non plus ultra' will be presented in Badajoz on 1 March.
The project, the first of Concomitentes in Extremadura, addresses the issue of the ecological crisis from an anti-imperial and decolonial perspective with the mediator, Jose Iglesias García-Arenal, and a group of six young people from the south of the province of Badajoz.GALLERY
