On July 9-17 of 2017, Asep Topan participated in the project directed by Chilean curator Rodolfo Andaur called Managing New Displacements from Geography. This project took place mainly in Iquique (North of Chile), and part of it in Santiago, the capital of the country.

In the years preceding to this project, a series of activities has been developed in the region of Tarapaca to project the articulation of the contemporary art towards an international scale. However, this region does not yet have a place where it is possible to organise exhibitions or to reflect on the practice of various local and foreign artists who have been working in the area.

It is under this context that Managing New Displacements from Geography proposes a new way of articulating artistic discourses through the desert landscapes of the historic region of Tarapaca. Geographically, this region in the north of Chile is part of the Atacama desert. For this reason, the human displacement throughout these remote places has created a platform that re-thinks the creativity of artists, their works and their ways to investigate them facing the desert.

All of the participants of this project travelled to different institutions of the regions with the purpose of creating meetings, conversations and even walks or exploration. In addition, many of these cross several villages in the region of Tarapaca to revive the work of visual artists, curators and researchers.

Asep Topan’s in this project is supported by BEKRAF and SAM Fund for Arts and Ecology