"Meliponicultura": Stories and Knowledge Exchange
KUXAÁN SÚUM
the living rope
1. January 2024 - 18. February 2024
Opening Hours
Thursday: 3 p.m.-8 p.m.
Friday: 3 p.m.-8 p.m.
Saturday: noon-8 p.m.
Sunday: noon-8 p.m.
Opening Hours
Thursday: 3 p.m.-8 p.m.
Friday: 3 p.m.-8 p.m.
Saturday: noon-8 p.m.
Sunday: noon-8 p.m.
Save the Date
for free
all ages welcome
in German/in English/in Yucatéc Maya
With Adriana Otero Puerto, Alberto Guerra, Atilano A. Ceballos Loeza, Cecilia Moo, Colectivo Suumil Móokt’aan, Fátima Castillo Torres, Isaura Inés Ortiz Yam, John Ogilby, María Cruz Torres Tzab, Pedro Guerra, Pieter van der Aa, Rafiki Sánchez, Rodrigo Llanes Salazar and Dharmendra Prasad.
Kuxaán Súum, which translates into English as “the living rope,” is the title of a Maya prophecy that is told to us by Atilano A. Ceballos Loeza, one of the founders of U Yits Ka’an, an agroecological school located in Maní on the Yucatán Peninsula. In this version of the story, a sacred rope that connected peoples, lands, skies, and the underworld was violently hacked into pieces by Western colonizers. However, in its destruction lies also the promise of repair: the fragmented rope awaits reknotting by Maya Peoples through collective and regenerative practices of care.
Stories can only take shape and be renewed, reinterpreted, and reinvented by the people who keep them alive and hand them down from one generation to the next. For KUXAÁN SÚUM the living rope at the Core Node, we invited contributors living and working on the Yucatán Peninsula and speaking from different positions and vantage points to parts of this story, to reference elements of its narrative and chose historical artifacts to contextualize the territories in which the story takes place.
At the core of Spore’s program is an ever-changing multidisciplinary presentation that we call Core Node. It is a synoptic space conceived around stories that hold together all of the various facets of Spore’s activities. We aspire for the Core Node to function as an access point for visitors.
Team
Exhibition production: Simon Krosigk
Graphic design: Stoodio Santiago da Silva
Lighting design: Emilio Cordero Checa
Production Team: Santiago Doljanin, Sophie Kindermann, Till Ronacher & Sebastian Schwindt (und.studio), Matthieu Séry, and Marc Schamuthe
Translation & editing in English, Spanish, German: Michele Faguet, Gegensatz - Translation Collective
Spanish editing and proofreading: Loreto Solis
Curated, commissioned and produced by: Spore Team
