135. The Faada-Adda Conversations with Mariam Issoufou Kamara (Part II): Future Hériter

Original Drawing by Tori Haynes

This week we are once again joined by Mariam Issoufou Kamara for the Faada-Adda Conversations Part II: Future Hériter. In this conversation, Kamara talks about breaking free from the boundaries of the cardinal directions and getting into new ways of being.

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3:30    We need more imaginaries: long history of humanity and learning and living with the Earth.
”Learning how to re-live in a symbiotic manner with other intelligences and other consciousnesses” VP

7:14    ̶S̶u̶s̶t̶a̶i̶n̶a̶b̶i̶l̶i̶t̶y̶ Sustainabilities
Change the word heritage
Kishkindha: New York
Grace Dillion - Indigenous Futurisms
Donna Haraway - Tentacular Thinking

12:26 The word “nature'“
Karen Barad - “Matter feels, converses, suffers, desires, yearns, and remembers.”

17:00    the idea of yugas/yuga: things are supposed to happen in a circle.
Learning to live with death, decay, and ruin of life.
”We have given up making beautiful ruins.” MIK

19:56 “How to live in ruins?” VP How Niger renews the ruins
The Living Bridges of Cherrupuji
Martin Heidegger - “Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.”

25:12 Kamara’s studio: “Let’s figure out what’s been lost.” MIK’s excavation of knowledge

31:41    Excavation: What are you digging up?
Interrogation on the word “place”
How do you survive your natural environment?
The earth is rebelling against us, and we have to learn to survive

39:35 Place and community and similarities: “The environment in which we live has a lot to do with the culture we end up developing” MIK

46:10 The hudge to Mecca as global cosmopolitanism: cultural mixing

52:29 ECC Exhibition 2023: O(U)R Kishkindha New York
Bosch’s Garden of Earthly Desires
Corbusier door Chandigarh
Julie Mehretu migration maps

56:02 Concluding: it’s all about the future and how we move forward
̶H̶e̶r̶i̶t̶a̶g̶e̶ Future Hériter (interited future)