2023-08-15 13:22:46
SUDAKASA
Mary Good*
On these hot days, where a shelter is essential for rest, enjoyment and even for creative processes, we approach Sudakasa with pride and special interest, contributing to the dissemination of such a wonderful project. Personally, I think of Rancho Rata, here in the south, wishing that one day both projects, both houses, could interact.
But first of all, what is Sudakasa?
It is “a space of experience for writing and art in community. A house without a master. An approach to literature from life and its inhabitants, living creatures, plants and animals and everything that moves and migrates. An improper room in the open air. A tribute to the yachaywasi, the Andean school of ancestral knowledge. We are bodies from the mountains, the coast, the jungle and the southern south. We occupy a school house and residence of subtle knowledge and lateral visions of the world. Sudakasa is a rural fantasy. A commitment to language as a farming practice. A piece of territory that they owed us. The gold returned in the diaspora. A territory over which the writers run like processionary caterpillars, advancing slowly, together and dangerously. We reappropriated the insult against the people of the south and made it our home.
Sudakasa is located “somewhere in La Mancha. We have found a piece of land in Castilla, the nerve center of the old colonial power. We are in Illana (“little Peru”), Guadalajara province, Alcarria region, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, but in reality we inhabit a liminal space between north and south, body in the north, soul in the south. On the banks of the Tagus River».
Who make up Sudakasa?
Migrant writers, editors and artists from Abyayala/Latin America based in Madrid-Castilla La Mancha, Spain. We have gathered around a hundred-year-old tree, a house with a fire and an agricultural shed to share our writings and knowledge with everyone. We want to be self-employed, regularize ourselves, help each other and have fun”.
We mention Gabriela Wiener, María Fernanda Ampuero, Claudia Ulloa, Claudia Apablaza, La Limonera, Andrea Aldana, Jaime Rodríguez Z., Francisco Jurado Chueca and Jorge Nuñéz Riquelme as part of the team.
Project logo. Credits: Sudakasa website.
For more information: www.sudakasa.com
*Article made from extracts from the project website.
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