ALÁN PELÁEZ LÓPEZ

ALÁN PELÁEZ LÓPEZ

Historia Futura / Future History,  2021. Text commissioned for MSRU. Installation as dual-language white vinyl text directly on grey gallery wall, with Spanish text left and English text right facing each other. 

For [move_semantics], Alán Peláez López offers this new text document of an imagined future history, written for Rules of Unfolding in Spanish and English. Peláez López envisions the creation stories of a world without borders: perhaps these words themselves hold within their lines the “[q]uiet, quiet tunes with instructions of how to offer and accept care. Full text

The artist and poet invites you join them in thinking through futures together that “don’t revolve around violence and land-based catastrophe,” collectively “Writing Alternative Futures & Refusing Apocalypse,” the focus of “The World Won’t End,” their online workshop offered on 4/18.