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$Announcing Volume 5 of Intervenxions Broadening Through Diffraction: “If you’re looking at the official narratives, you might not know how deeply ingrained punk is in Chicano culture. Or how an immigrant from Brazil has helped reshape the contours of the New York Ballroom scene. Broken up into three sections—Germination, Regional Undergrounds, and Aftereffects—this volume of Intervenxions examines the hidden art scenes and subcultures that are integral to our communities. In many cases, they are either underrecognized by incomplete histories or not deemed important enough to document in the first place.” Intervenxions Vol. 5 is out on 10/03 and will be available for sale online and at La Feria: Print Media Fair. This publication is made possible with support from the Henry Luce Foundation @hlucefdn. Contributors: Emanuel Bravo (@ema_el_astronauta) Xavi Burgos (@DIASPORAPAPI) Dr. Christopher Chávez (@chavey4) C.J. Chueca (@c.j.chueca) Arlene Dávila (@arlenedavila1) Maya Doig-Acuña (@mayitacoquita) John H. Guevara (@johnhguevara) Hilda Lloréns (@dr.hildallorens) Irene Mata (@comeonirenem) Orlando Ochoa, Jr. (@ochoaorlandojr) M. Quechol Nilda Mercedes Peraza Alex Santana (@alexsantanana) Pamela Santana Oliveros (@pamesanoliveros) Yara Simón (@yarasimon) Michael Anthony Turcios Camila Valle (@_grimweeper__) Kiara Cristina Ventura (@kiara_cristina) Pictured on the cover: Eliezer Parrilla Mena, ‘Niña, Arcilla, Marrón, I,’ 1997, Polaroid. Designed by Jessy Castillo (@raramatter, @practicayproceso) Edited by Yara Simón and Alex Santana$

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This series of interviews profiles this year’s archives + artists pairings, which include the National Public Housing Museum’s oral history collection + Dr. ShaDawn Battle; Honey Pot Performance + Siobhan McKissic; and Chuquimarca art library by John H. Guevara + Crystal Vance Guerra + Mariana Mejía.

At the link in bio, Hilesh Patel (@hilesh) speaks with Guevara (@johnhguevara), a Chicago–based artist and director whose project @chuquimarca.artlibrary operates somewhere between art library, conceptual proposal, and garden. Chuquimarca functions as a resource for Chicago’s arts ecosystem, offering access to art books and materials that center non-Western, somatic, and cosmological knowledge systems often absent from art, academic, and conventional library collections and archives. It is as much a critique of the library as a form as it is an attempt to fill gaps in what is accessible, particularly for artists navigating an art world that historically gatekeeps who comes in.

The library’s book collection is housed and publicly browsable at @tala.chicago, an art gallery in Chicago’s West Town. What follows is a conversation that began over coffee with a chance to get to know both the project and the person behind it and continued through a series of email exchanges with Guevara about care, inquiry, and what it means to build a system that works more like a mirror than a monument.

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Images: [1] John H. Guevara sits on a table in the back room at Tala Gallery with books in front of him. He is looking straight at the camera with a smirk on his face. Photo by @kristiekahns. [2] Chuquimarca’s art books on view at Tala Gallery. Centered in the photograph is Frames of Reference: Latin American Art from the Jorge M Pérez Collection, Sovereign Words: Indigenous Art, Curation and Criticism, and Afro-Atlantic Histories. Photo by @prezpipe, courtesy of Tala Gallery. Image: John H. Guevara sits on a table in the back room at Tala Gallery with books in front of him. He is looking straight at the camera with a smirk on his face. Image by Kristie Kahns. Text below reads "Chicago Archives and Artists Project: Interview with John H. Guevara of Chuquimarca by Hilesh Patel. How does your body feel when you are researching? How does one create a library without using western-tools? Chuquimarca proposes using a mirrored approach to book collecting."

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