THE EARTH, THE FIRE, THE WATER AND THE WINDS: FOR A MUSEUM OF ERRANTRY WITH ÉDOUARD GLISSANT

Publisher: Instituto Tomie Ohtake
Co-publisher: Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA)
Organized by: Ana Roman, Paulo Miyada
Editorial supervision: Ana Roman, Divina Prado, Felipe Carnevalli
Texts: Ana Roman, Catalina Bergues, Cecília Vilela, Édouard Glissant, Patrick Chamoiseau, Paulo Miyada, Sabrina Fontenele
Graphic design: Catê Bloise, Paula Lobato, Tie Ito, Vitor Cesar
Editing:  Ana Elisa Camasmie, Divina Prado, Fabiana Pino, Felipe Carnevalli, Rachel Valinsky
Translation: Ana Roman, Ivan Rocha, John Norman, Sebastião Nascimento
Dimensions: 18 x 24 cm
Number of pages: 240
Year: 2025
ISBN: 978-65-89342-59-5
Synopsis: Featuring selected concepts from L’Abécédaire d’Édouard Glissant, the 2008 filmed dialogue with Patrick Chamoiseau that reflects on ideas such as Archipelago, Creolization, and Errantry, this publication offers a contemporary view on the implications of Glissant’s thinking in the fields of art, museology, philosophy and poetry. A central feature is the selection of pages from Glissant’s Notebook of a Journey on the Nile (1988), a poetic-philosophical travelogue composed during a felucca trip through Egypt. Sketches, marginalia, and lyrical fragments reveal Glissant’s meditations on multiplicity and the impossibility of a single origin. Edited by Ana Roman and Paulo Miyada, the book is conceived as a polyphonic extension of the exhibition The Earth, the Fire, the Water and the Winds: For a Museum of Errantry with Édouard Glissant (Instituto Tomie Ohtake, 2025 / CARA, NY, 2026), including reflections from partner institutions, detailed entries on the participating artists, curatorial essays, archival fragments, and visual documents to expand the curatorial project into a layered terrain of language, landscape, and errantry.

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