RRS: Around Tropical Turns, Ways of Netting & Technologies of Relation Online Lecture

RRS: Around Tropical Turns, Ways of Netting & Technologies of Relation
with Juan Pablo García Sossa and Neema Githere
6 – 8pm Tuesday 20th May 2025
Online Lecture (Zoom)
Free but ticketed – Book via Eventbrite

Join us online for an artist talk and discussion with Juan Pablo García Sossa and Neema Githere, as part of the Race, Rights & Sovereignty programme.

When receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature, Gabriel García Márquez spoke of The Solitude of Latin America—a reflection on how our realities often defy belief. But this solitude isn’t just Latin America’s; it echoes across Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and the Pacific. Perhaps it’s not solitude, but dislocation. Globalism flattens context, promising sameness everywhere—yet erasing rootedness. So, how do we relocate, reconnect, and see through, not just be seen? The Tropics, long exploited and exoticised, need redefining through endotic perspectives: not as objects of gaze, but as lenses to see from. This is not just about recognition, but recognition. Embracing a Tropical Belt invites us to move beyond binaries—towards pluriversal, more-than-binary ways of being and computing.

Juan Pablo García Sossa is a designer, researcher, and expansive media artist. Juan / jpgs’ artistic research practice explores the shaping of cultures, realities, and worlds through the remix and re·appropriation of technologies from a Tropikós perspective (understanding the Tropics as both a region and a mindset). jpgs’ practice is deeply committed to pluriversing technologies towards techno·diversities and more-than-binary perma·computing.

Neema Githere is a writer, artist, and guerrilla theorist. Neema’s curatorial and research practice examines the digital diaspora and networked repair through cyber-cartography, with a focus on Afropresentism – an inquiry into how descendents of exile can invoke somatic attunement amidst systematised algorithmic displacement. Her work routes decanonising digital methodologies, collective archiving, and reindigenisation through participatory and socially engaged formats.

This event is part of the Race, Rights & Sovereignty ‘What Will Be the Cure?’ strand. ‘What Will Be the Cure?’ is a programme strand geared towards artists and practitioners who wish to collectivise, experiment, and conspire towards transformative change. Race, Rights and Sovereignty is a programme supported by GSA Students Association in partnership with GSA Exhibitions.