Más allá del fin Nº 3 1 Editorial by Carla Macchiavello Weaving Hands ders within. Asking you to join forces with me as and Camila Marambio co-editor was a natural extension of my admiration 85 ÆS JÁLA-KAWÉSQAR KUTEKÉ ČE of your many skills. I always wanted to be paired Appropriate Beginning = ‘My Ancestor and Me’ with you on assignments when we were classmates by Patricia Messier Loncuante in the Bachelor of Aesthetics at university. Your bril- 3 Juan Dávila interviewed by 88 Retracing the History of Tasmanian liant mind, your commitment to reading, your strict Carla Macchiavello and Camila Marambio Aboriginal Shell Necklaces by Lola Greeno discipline, your shy smile, your strong will, and your 90 Vínculos tejidos entre sur–sur, Woven creative theorising still today make you my favourite Reflexive Anthropology south–south links by Josefina de la Maza study partner. But, the birth of CM2 (Carla Macchi- avello and Camila Marambio) was also a continua- 7 For a Cultural Future: Francis Jupurrurla Medium Specificity and Translation tion of the Ensayos methodology. Years after we makes TV at Yuendumu by Eric Michaels both finished our Masters in New York City and had 13 Noreshi Towai by Juan Downey 90 Paratactic Notes on the Living Poetry grown somewhat estranged from each other you ap- 15 The Belly of the Beast: Eric Michaels and of the Valparaíso School by María Berríos proached me wanting to know more about Ensayos; the Anthropology of Visual Communication 95 The Sub Scene, Post-Cinema, and as an offshoot of your Ph.D. you were thinking of by Jay Ruby Global Media Flows by Tessa Dwyer writing a book on performative artistic practices and Ramon Lobato and wanted to focus on Ensayos as one of your case Deep Time 99 Why This Happy Rage?: Tamil Pathways studies. Our first extended interview for the purpose Across the South by Kevin Murray of your book took place in Santiago, Chile. We sat at 20 Verso l'infinito by Lucy Bleach Emporio La Rosa in Lastarria and you asked me 22 Archipelagic Wanderings in Trowunna Curriculum and Climate such thoughtful questions that I was able to fully by Denise Milstein flesh out the oddball tactics of Ensayos, one of 29 Images of the Invisible by Catalina Valdés 101 Fishy Beginnings by Astrida Neimanis which, I said, ‘was that to fully comprehend 104 Los Nudos Vuelven a la Mar: Ensayos you have to form a part of it. You have to Haunting Film Coastal Curriculum and Intergenerational feel responsibility towards Tierra del Fuego. It is an Embodied Learning by Sarita Gálvez activist pre-formance, a being in tune with the ails 31 An Archive for the Future, Seeing through 109 On Fishy Knowings and North/South and wants of an archipelago so vast that it over- Occupation by Macarena Gómez-Barris Wanderings by Iris Duhn whelms the human capacity to cope with it.’ That is 37 Aperture, Apparition, Apparatus: why in our first issue of Más allá del fin you came An Incantation for Ghostly Machines Questioning Reflexivity to write an essay about your one-day visit by Tessa Laird to Karokynka (the main isle of the archipelago). 42 Is What We See “Normal”? by Carolina Saquel 110 Oda a Ivette/Ode to Ivette by Camila Marambio This foreigner perspective contrasted with the 117 Brief Notes About Dust, Twirls, and news reported by those of us that had been experi- Poetic Instauration Some Horses by Carla María Macchiavello encing Karokynka’s vastness for four years. 121 Ensayos Methodologies by Helen Hughes The reader can access that first issues online via 44 The Blow by Greg Lehman www.ensayostierradelfuego.net. 44 ‘Instauring’ Aboriginal Art P.S. The second issue was the consolidation of the by Stephen Muecke and Melinda Hinkson periodicity of Más allá del fin. A year after the first 49 Coda: Instauring Artful Anthropology 122 Utility, Uselessness, and Speculative Study: issue, #2 was purposefully constructed in an undis- by Lisa Stefanoff On Ensayos by Carlos Garrido Castellano ciplined way (which makes me smile now that we 123 Useless by Christy Gast are parasitising Discipline). The Bruce High Quali- Ethics of Place ty Foundation University in New York City was the stage for our experimental feminist poethical eco- 49 The Subantarctic Imagination activist second issue. We had set our sight on each Versus the Southern Mindset Editorial article for that issue functioning as a sort of script by Joaquín Bascopé for a performance to be undertaken by the reader. In 53 Understanding Human Agency in Terms Carla Macchiavello and doing that I’m not sure that we knew that we were of Place: A Proposed Aboriginal Research Camila Marambio sacrificing that issue to our learning, and hopefully Methodology by Mary Graham that of our university students. As sacrifices go, 57 Resisting Genocide by Hema’ny Molina Dear Carla, however, the maturity of the contents was at peak, partly because in 2015 Ensayos’s inquiries were Funga For the sake of the reader I’m going to practice my fuelled by the Paris COP, by our residency at the memory and try and recount how this third issue of Institute for Art and Olfaction, by the inclusion of 59 Searching for Slime Moulds in Más allá del fin came about. First, an invitation. In- outstanding new research collaborators (Bruno Northern Tasmania by Sarah Lloyd vitations are usually at the start of all (love) affairs. Latour, Denise Milstein, Carolina Saquel, and 68 A WhatsApp Conversation between We got asked out by Helen Hughes. Más allá del fin, Cecilia Vicuña). Though you were no longer living Giuliana Furci and Nico Arze a lightweight periodical that reports on the findings in Bogotá at that time we kept our Colombian de- 70 Reimagining Fungi—A Foray in the of the nomadic collective research Ensayos. With an signers, but printed in New York City where you had Mycobiome by Alison Pouliot inaugural issue in French, Spanish, and English, de- relocated to. Mostly plotted from a great distance, signed and printed in Bogotá, Colombia, Más allá this issue nevertheless gave us a chance to spend Travellers del finwas first published by the Kadist Art Founda- time in each other’s hometowns. We physically tion on the occasion of the exhibition Beyond The compaginated the second issue on Long Island, but 75 ‘Helpless’ in Tierra del Fuego: End in May 2014. You lived in Bogotá then, and I first brooded over our discontents with the climate Baldwin Spencer’s Last Journey was in residence at Kadist in Paris so from a dis- crisis on the shores of Chile’s fifth region, in Papu- by John Kean tance we envisioned a newspaper containing arti- do, and we did this in the company of the Norwe- 81 Sur by Ursula K. Le Guin cles, adver tisements, and corres pondence that could gian artist/curator Karolin Tampere. The migration 84 Expedition, Exploitation, and Museum give readers in France a sense of Tierra del Fuego, of our thinking, of our waste, of our responsibility Collections by Bec Carland the archipelago that Ensayos wonders about/wan- was at the heart of that issue, also available online. Más allá del fin No. 3 1 Editorial It strikes me now that distance is the stamp of academic qué placer Más allá del fin. As the name suggests we commune urban que me pongas a with what is ‘Beyond the End’, meaning that which is lettered pensar out of our sight, and issue #3 is no different. Full of point of view, en todas estas tunnels and cavities that conjoin Chile and Australia, cosas. issue #3 of Más allá del fin is the honeycomb issue. or are we giving up power providing material Dear Carla, Dear Camila, to others I received your fragmented text and began instantly I was also home away from home, at The Clark In­ which they might find useful to follow your proposition of self-reflexivity and stitute, and certainly estranged from myself, when I to build you know where it took me? Back to the relation- began to work on the third issue of Más allá del fin, their own ships that engendered every invitation to each au- writing the questions for Juan Dávila. futures? (as Muecke says) thor. There is not one author in this issue to which I We were then still deciding on collaborators for don’t feel immense affinity towards, there is no one the issue. You had proposed a triadic, triangular, ¿estamos colaborando con otros text that doesn’t form part of a constellation of third way kind of method for this collaboration, so are we collaborating with others voices that are forever ringing in my ears. When I that two texts from each side of the Atlantic, from o se trata aun simplemente de tune into ‘my own’ thoughts I hear a conversation different coasts, would share this space, this sea of or is this still simply about going on between Patricia Messier and Lola Greeno printed matter, and converse from their localities, seleccionar, añadir, incluir? (having spent time in both their homes—in Punta from their differences, from their unknown com­ selecting, adding, including? Arenas and Launceston respectively—I even hear monalities. A third text would enter this conver­ the reverb on their words bouncing off the walls), I sation, not as a bridge or meta­commentary, but quizás la pregunta es preguntarnos hear calls by Giuliana Furci and Nico Arze, from a poetic response based on shared concerns and pas­ maybe the question is to ask ourselves the forests of Southern Chile, to Sarah Lloyd, in the sions.