Nombrar_

“Nombrar_” forms part of an international curatorial project, developed through collaboration between the EU-funded COLING project, a multinational and interinstitutional program focused on minority languages; the Collaborative Network of Experimental Humanities, linking university centers worldwide; and the Smithsonian Institution’s Recovering Voices program, supporting community efforts in linguistic revitalization. As a multidisciplinary exhibition with multiple venues (Germany, Greece, United States of America, Kyrgyzstan, Palestine, with the latest venue here in Mexico), this exhibition reflects on how names are created and used to shape, reshape, and sometimes distort our worlds and identities. The artists featured in the exhibitions investigate, confront, and complicate naming practices to reveal ways in which personal experiences intersect or clash with collective ones, shaping our political, cultural, and ecological realities. Through this global network, our aim is to alter problematic dynamics between West/East and North/South, as well as between Anglophone academic spheres and indigenous perspectives. We envision the outcome to be a rich variety of perspectives from scholars worldwide, including those from Kyrgyzstan, Siberia, Palestine, the Philippines, Hawaii, Germany, Mexico, Greece, Mozambique, Poland, Fiji, Serbia, China, Nigeria, Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Guatemala, Colombia, as well as those with multilingual and multi-local lives and identities spanning New Zealand, the UK, Singapore, the USA, Canada, South Africa, Germany, and Australia. The exhibition is complemented by To Be—Named, an online web platform expanding on perspectives from previous international exhibitions (https://to-be-named.org), an edited volume, and finally, the physical exhibition.