TURBA TOL HOL-HOL THE BOOK
By the editors Carla Macchiavello Cornejo and Camila Marambio (CM2)
Turba Tol Hol-Hol-the book is a compendium of the extensive eco-cultural thought of Latin American and Caribbean authors who center their attention on struggles, ways of doing, and experiences of care from the South.
The book is a multidisciplinary, collaborative, scientific-poetic-artistic effort that recognizes itself as material/sensual and aspires to be downloadable, scribbleable, accessible, referenceable. It is designed to accompany different processes of biodiversity conservation, of strengthening care practices that are specific, multinational, cross-cultural, decidedly anticolonial, participative, and feminist. The book is a desire and an act, a collective plea, a place for gathering, for divergences, for different ways of doing in pursuit of a society of care.
The book brings together many voices that participate from their local practices and knowledge. Some are germinal texts, a rich and damp humus for environmental and eco-feminist thought from Abya Yala. Others are commissioned texts from artists, scientists, academics, writers, and activists who focused their attention on the peatlands of Tierra del Fuego and the eco-aesthetics that drive Turba Tol Hol-Hol Tol (the pavilion at the 59th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia). Alongside the commissioned essays and the germinal texts, the Venice Agreement stands as a poetic text co-authored by peatland custodians from around the world during a global gathering held in Venice on June 2, 2022. This Agreement is inspired by the wild and wise voices of poets from the end of the world, the southern tip of South America, whose words shake us and remind us not to forget. Each voice reproduced here is a seed that the book plants for the future. Others are new texts on peatland science and conservation, experiences filled with knowledge regarding these ancestral ecosystems that require the attention and care of many. There are also voices and bodies that come together from near and far to accompany and feel-think it from a variety of places and practices. Finally, there are a series of visual essays, an olfactory offering and of course, the rumors, deep, sonorous, textual tremors that pass from body to body and that anticipated what was to come. The vulnerability of our lives, of our bodies, of peatlands, during the times of political struggle, of climate crisis and of the strengthening of tongues, of yours, of mine, of those which we have yet to perceive.
The digital edition of Turba Tol Hol-Hol is available as PDF, ePub and flipbook here and on the websites of the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage of Chile and Ensayos. The printed version will be published by the Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage in September 2023 and distributed to libraries and cultural centers throughout Chile.
