Editors, Alexa Horochowski and R Yun Matea
February 24, 2023
For the second edition of Scorched Feet / Pies Quemados, the editors gathered artworks and literature by local and international artists and writers that articulate and ignite the concept ritual witchcraft and healing in times of climate change. They found inspiration from the hex-like actions taken by Ukrainian women against Russian occupiers. February 24, 2023, marks the one-year anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Artists Alexa Horochowski and R Yun Matea founded Scorched Feet / Pies Quemados in 2020 at a time of increasing environmental crises, political turmoil, and social upheaval. Events such as the Covid-19 pandemic, the public murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, and the January 6 storming of the Capitol all point to pressures arising from increasing social inequality around the world. Global disruptions such as “El Estallido” (social explosion) in Chile, and Hong Kong’s anti-extradition protests that preceded the uprising in Minneapolis emphasized the collective destiny shared by humans and non-humans in the Capitalocene–a distinct geological epoch in which the capitalist formula of unbridled accumulation has penetrated into all aspects of the planet’s biophysical environment, to the point where the survival of the capitalist system is an existential threat to the survival of humanity.
The following artist and writers contributed to the second edition of Scorched Feet / Pies Quemados: Sonia Barrett, Vania Caro Melo, Brad Kahlhamer, Caroline Kent, Stevie Ada Klaark, Carolina Opazo Riveros, Lela Pierce, María Rebolleda-Gómez, Sun Yung Shin, Calvin Stalvig, and Corinne Teed.
The following artists contributed to the first edition of Scorched Feet / Pies Quemados: Leslie Fernández Barrera, Tia-Simone Gardner, Joe González, Alexa Horochowski, R Yun Keagy (Matea), and Camila Leiva. Free copies of both issues will be available at the launch and at venues in the Twin Cities (Midway Library, Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Moon Palace Books).
Project support for Scorched Feet / Pies Quemados is provided by the Visual Arts Fund, administered by Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, with generous funding from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, New York.
