Upcoming season

As a digital platform supporting socially engaged and environmentally conscious artistic practices, tropical papers have dedicated programs to encourage experimentation, provide endorsement, feedback, and visibility to emerging and mid-career artists. We are delighted to announce the upcoming [ON RESIDENCE], [LIVING ROOM], and [TUNOG SESSIONS] season.

Meet all our guests and follow their work through our digital platforms. 

[ON RESIDENCE]
Since September, French-Colombian artist Felipe Ribón has been working with a glass workshop in Paris, specialized in borosilicate. The artist created the Tropical Bulb, a domestic self-standing glass incensory entirely hand-made. The geometric piece allows you to combine different scents at the same time, producing a multi-sensory experience and a surprising ever-changing fragrance. By blending the smoke together, the artifact generates a 3D olfactory experience. Tropical Bulb is a five limited edition piece made exclusive to tropical papers. 

During his residence, Ribón has taken over our public programs sections [MONDAY LEARNING] and [TUESDAY BOOKS], sharing knowledge, references and new projects with our audience.

Felipe Ribón (b.1981, lives and works in Paris) produces objects and photographs that confound strictly methodical thinking and appeal to uncertain terrains of the unconscious. Through his work, Ribón challenges our parameters of perception and proposes new ways of seeing, feeling, and conceiving another imaginary. By devising objects and experimenting with new fields of design, the artist goes beyond the limit set by the rationalism of Cartesian thought, while remaining faithful to the demands of his discipline. 

[LIVING ROOM]
November 16, 2021, 2pm EST/8pm CET
How to drink a landscape?
Our next [LIVING ROOM] is a sensory experience that will taste like dusk. Ryoko Sekiguchi and her guests (artist Guillaume Aubry & mixologist Sterling Hudson) will give you all the glimpses to successfully drink a landscape, with a recipe that will bring together (perhaps) several “insularities,” traveling through an aesthetic and gustatory experience from the Japanese archipelago to the Caribbean islands.

Following the publication of “Sunset cocktails” (JBE Editions), the trio continues their research on how to assimilate a landscape to the body. How to drink an Okinawan sunset while in Paris? Or in Bogotá? 

Ryoko Sekiguchi (b. Japan, lives and works in Paris) is a poet, writer and translator. Her interest is to bring multiple voices into the text as an intersection of cultures, practices and languages. An important part of her work deals with cooking, tastes and worldwide flavours. Her recent publications include Nagori, la nostalgie de la saison qui s’en va, Éditions P.O.L., La Terre est une marmite, Bayard, Le Curry japonais, dix façons de le préparer, L’Épure, Sentir, JBE Books.

[TUNOG SESSIONS]
“Water..... May we hear your call and your messages...  May the roads and their quests open up for us to find you... May we sing to you, care for you and thank you with pristine vibrations.... May your presents bathe upon us in the form of drops of life from heaven.”

Héctor Buitrago, Prayer to Water
Originated from Cantoalagua 2021

As part of our program [TUNOG SESSIONS] proposes audiovisual commissions by artists working with experimental music, sound art, movement, dance, and choreography. For the second edition in November, we welcome the musician and environmental “artivist” Héctor Buitrago. The artist is working on a series of compositions linked to water, land, and ancestry. The videos will be launched on the platforms of tropical papers. 

Héctor Buitrago (b.1963, lives and works in Bogotá) is the co-member, together with Andrea Echeverri, of the multiple Grammy-winning Colombian band Aterciopelados. His albums are a calling to preserve the land and environment while empowering communities to effect change in the world. Buitrago is currently part of the collective VozTerra with which he released four albums with musicians from 10 countries to draw attention to the loss of biodiversity.

About tropical papers
Created in 2005, tropical papers is a digital platform for reflection on art, architecture, design, and scientific research, giving visibility to works and projects of artists and cultural practitioners focused on disciplines from and in the tropics. 

tropical papers’ focal point is to stimulate multidisciplinary projects informed by realities, experiences, and forms of knowledge, and to amplify its multiple voices through a series of programs. The artists, cultural practitioners, and our audiences are the main protagonists in this constellation of digital resources functioning as an inclusive forum to discuss urgent societal issues, encourage sustainable work dynamics, increase environmental awareness, and build communities. 

Our programs are made possible through the support of public and private funders, as well as individual patrons. Your contribution is vital for us to keep on going and promoting our activities. Join the tropical papers’ family, write to us at office@tropicalpapers.org.