Tanda 2024-25
Application Open
Deadline: August 25, 2024
Application Form Here
The beloved Tanda research group program is ready for a new batch of future knowledge. With Tanda alumni sharing generous and copious knowledge out in the world, we can’t wait to see what thought-worlds are in store this year—we await the cerebral drama.
Tanda alumni Ruby Que and fern ramoutar are co-facilitating this year!
Important Dates
Application Opens: July 22, 2024
Information Session: August 13, 2024
Deadline: August 25, 2024 (end of day)
Notification: September 6, 2024
What is the Tanda program?
Interweaving the formats of seminars, book clubs, research groups, and tandas, Tanda is a cohort program that aids individuals with their research and practice through self-directed and collective learning. It is a program providing time and space to gather, share, think and exchange conversations, resources, and knowledge.
The program generally works as follows: each accepted participant in the program proposes a topic for the group to research every week. Every week the group will research one topic until all topics have been discussed. In each session, the participants will take turns presenting the research and resources found on the week’s subject. Those resources can be anything in conversation with the assigned topic. The resources can be in the form of images, video clips, PDFs, readings, websites, stories, music, etc. Further context here.
Information Session
Do you have questions about the program? Not sure what to expect? Join us for the information session on Tuesday, August 13, 2024, 6:30pm-7:30pm to learn and ask questions about the Tanda program.
Register for the information session here.
Application Overview
Application is open to artists, curators, writers, researchers, and individuals motivated in self-directed and collective learning. It is open to individuals wanting help researching and thinking through a subject matter or their practice within a public group setting.
Application form here
- Open to artists, curators, writers, researchers, and anyone interested in self-directed and collective learning
- 12 individuals will be accepted
- Applicants outside Chicago are eligible to apply
- 1/3 of non-Chicago-based applicants will be accepted
- Acceptance is based on topic diversity
- Topics that are in relationship to Chuquimarca’s value are preferred but other topics will be considered based on cohort dynamic. Please see previous Tanda topics on our website to gauge the type of topics favored
- Application will be deliberated by Ruby Que, fern ramoutar, and John H. Guevara
Tanda Details
- Virtual program through Zoom (closed caption available)
- 12 cohort members, 6 members per season
- 2 seasons, 8 sessions per season
- 1 session a week for 2 months
- 2 hr sessions
- Sessions will be open to the public
- Sessions will be in Chicago central time
Seasons Dates
Fall 2024 | Co-facilitated by Ruby Que
Start: Week of September 23, 2024
End: Week of November 11, 2024
Spring 2025 | Co-facilitated by fern ramoutar
Start: Week of March 24, 2025
End: Week of May 12, 2025
What to expect and things to consider
- Tandas are roughly a time commitment of 2-4 hours each week throughout the season. This includes the 2 hour scheduled sessions and 1-2 individual research time outside the scheduled session. Expect to research other peoples’ topics weekly.
- Tandas are great for folks not in any educational or professional development program, please consider your capacities and other commitments appropriately.
- Tandas are great for folks who have an upcoming exhibition or project that needs a sound board or feedback.
- Tanda sessions are public and you will facilitate your session. Please take into consideration your capacity to lead and speak on your topic in a public group setting. Co-facilitators are to assist with technical and facilitation help if needed.
For additional details or questions about the Tanda program, please email info@chuquimarca.com
Co-Faciliators
Ruby Que will co-facilitate fall 2024
Ruby Que is an interdisciplinary artist with a focus on site-specific intervention and expanded cinema performance. In their work they open portals and create hauntings. Many projects grapple with absence: the missing person, the deserted homeland, the obsolete media, and the traumatic memory. With video, sculpture and writing, they attempt to give shape to what lies within and beyond the perceived emptiness. Drawing on their lived experience as a queer, itinerant immigrant, they meditate on yearning and find home in transit. They believe in the power of collective myth-making, and engage collaborators and/or viewers as co-conspirators towards liberation.
Que has exhibited and performed at Kavi Gupta, Co-Prosperity Sphere, Elastic Arts, Roman Susan, Comfort Station (Chicago, IL), Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY), Carthage College (Kenosha, WI), SOLOS (Karlsruhe, Germany) amongst other spaces nationally and internationally. They have been awarded residencies at Vermont Studio Center, ACRE, Ellis-Beauregard Foundation, and are currently a HATCH resident at Chicago Artists Coalition. Their work has been featured in The Chicago Reader, Performance Review Journal, and Sixty Inches from Center; Newcity Magazine named them a 2023 Breakout Artist. Que holds an MFA in Film, Video and New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Comparative Literature from Cornell University.
fern ramoutar will co-facilitate spring 2025
fern ramoutar is an artist and a graduate student at the University of Chicago, where she is pursuing a PhD in Economics. She is a Black, queer woman from the Caribbean diaspora, born and raised in Toronto, and currently living in Chicago. Her research investigates the causes and consequences of segregation and racial inequality. Outside of school, fern is invested in supporting local efforts to think and build beyond the existing structures of racial capitalism. She also writes and uses film to explore the various ways that local communities collectively practice freedom. Although these practices are often invisible in the “data” that she studies as an economist, she believes they are essential to understanding the true nature of any neighborhood, city, or region, across space and time.
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