“Land is to the people what blood is to the body”
Transito Amaguaña (1909-2009)
The international Soil Assembly network was born in 2022 out of a spontaneous desire to bring together humans from many fields and territories with plants, microbes, fungi, algae, seeds, and other practitioners in the web of life, to share stories and practices of biodiversity, soil regeneration and planetary care.
A Soil Assembly is an actor of the territory where it is organised. Soil Assembly #1 was held in Kochi, India in 2023. The Soil Assembly #2 : Tinku Uku Pacha takes place from the 8th to the 10th if May 2025 in La Chimba, Ecuador, a rural indigenous community in the Andes, home to the great peasant leader Tránsito Amaguaña who, along with many others, fought for indigenous peoples’ rights and access to land.
NEWS
The Residencies have begun!
For 3 intense weeks the artists will be developing their work.
PROGRAM
Participation in the activities is free of charge and open to all.
The daytime activities will be broadcast live on the Internet, with simultaneous translation between English and Spanish on Friday.
Thursday 8 May 2025
REGENERATIVE RURAL ECONOMIES
The economy has a direct impact on the environment and ability for all to live well. If rural economies are not taken into account there is no possibility of conserving soils and changing agricultural systems. La Divina Papaya convenes a wide variety of actors to come together with the aim of sharing innovative and sustainable proposals for rural economies and to weave alliances that restore territories, cultures and ecosystems.
09h-10h: Ceremonial opening with community authorities
10h-18h: Debates, conferences and proposals for regenerative rural economies
19h-21h : Inauguration of the exhibition of Tau Luna, Ronny Albuja and Manai Kowi in the CICTA with video mapping by Felipe Jácome Reyes.
Friday 9 May 2025
ART, SCIENCE & PLANETARY PEASANTRY
Art and science are both ways of investigating, exploring and understanding the world. The combination of these methods reveal the multiple and infinite dimensions of the soil. On this second day, a selection of local and international artists, scientists, farmers and thinkers will share their understandings of soil and the land, revealing its fundamental importance for life, death and regeneration.
09h-18h: International Soil Assembly n°2: Ancestrofuturism, Art and Rurality, Art and Soil, Sciences of the Soil.
19h-23h: Live audiovisual experimentation with Paula Pin, Felipe Jácome Reyes, Jazziel, Layer Layer Layer, Jatun Mama.
Saturday 10 May 2025
CEREMONY AND CELEBRATION FOR TRANSIT AMAGUAÑA
As every year, the community honours the struggles and life of their historic indigenous peasant leader Tránsito Amaguaña. The Pachacamac is ceremonial cooking in the earth – offering and gratitude to Uku Pacha. The traditional songs of the Kayambi women, the coplas, celebrate the living tradition and the joy of the fiesta and the voices of the women.
06h-12h Pachamanca and Commemoration of Tránsito Amaguaña and indigenous peasant women.
09-17h Walk to the Origen of Life
14h-19h III Contest of Coplas
Artistic Residencies at CICTA
22 April to 8 May 2025
Ronny Albuja (ECU), together with his team of Santiago Tapia, Daniel Gachet and TierraCroma, work on an audiovisual installation based on the sonorous and visual interpretation of the chromatographies (visual analyses) of the soils of the Chimba territory with digital and ancestral technologies.
Tau Luna Acosta (COL) consults the stones of the territory in search of metabolic alliances and to reinvent the room dedicated to stones in the CICTA, creating a space to explore the intersections of the human and mineral worlds in the territory of La Chimba.
Installation of 2 community laboratories in the CICTA: Soil Chromatography (TierraCroma) and Microbiology (Karen Benalcázar).
Special guest and transhackfeminist godmother: Paula Pin (hackteria.org)
