To Navigate Backward: Resonating with Zapatismo – Book Presentation

22 October, 19:00-21:00 | Registration via Eventbrite

Speakers: Dmitry Vilenski, Olga Egorova, Nikolay Oleynikov (Chto Delat), Alessandra Pomarico (Free Home University)

The book presentation will focus on the first essay within the collection When the roots start moving: Chto Delat and Free Home University. The essay investigates predicaments of rootedness and rootlessness, as well as notions of belonging and displacement across different geographies. Zapatismo—the insurgent movement of Indigenous peoples from Mexico—emerged as a form of belonging, a home (or a homecoming) for our hopes and political imaginaries, providing a praxis to learn from and with. The contributors of this book offer their understanding of the Zapatistas’ movement without romanticising or objectifying their struggle for Autonomy.

The book extends the research and practice of artistic collective Chto Delat, who adopt Zapatismo as a lens of self-reflection and highlight how the Zapatista imaginary continues to inspire those who are looking for emancipatory tools: through art, language, radical pedagogy and conviviality, as a practice of commoning and collectively reimagining an otherwise.

CHTO DELAT and Free Home University

WHEN THE ROOTS START MOVING, First Mouvement:

To Navigate Backward: Resonating with Zapatismo

Editors: Alessandra Pomarico & Nikolay Oleynikov

Publishers: Archive Books & Free Home University, 2021

Contributors: Alejandra Labastida, Alessandra Pomarico, Cristina Híjar González, Chto Delat, Christian Peverieri, Dmitry Vilensky, ILiana Fokianaki, Manuel Callahan, Marco Baravalle, Natalia Arcos Salvo, Nikolay Oleynikov, Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson, Subcomandante Moisés, Oleg Yasinsky, Tsaplya Olga

272pp | ISBN 978-3-948212-70-4

price: € 22