de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas
[from the underwater mountains fire makes islands]
Reader Volume Two

February 2024, Spanish & English, 6 x 9 in, 180 pages, b&w + 15 inserts, color, spiral-bound, softcover
Design: Sming Sming Books
Co-published with KADIST! 

de montañas submarinas el fuego hace islas [from the underwater mountains fire makes islands] Reader Volume Two is a bilingual English and Spanish reader, edited by curator Yina Jiménez Suriel, and co-published by KADIST and Sming Sming Books, with the support of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, University of California, Berkeley. de montañas explores the concept of freedom through sensory experiences, alternate and altered realities, and interspecies relationships between human and non-human entities, using the island as a important reference point for imagination beyond the world in which we live. With texts by Dénètem Touam Bona, Félix Servio Ducoudray, Yina Jiménez Suriel, Ailton Krenak, Marilia Lourerio, José Maceda, Ariana Nuala, Suely Rolnik, and Jo-ey Tang, de montañas includes a constellation of voices that address the interconnection between the geological, perceptual, temporal, sonic, poetic, social and political forces. 

Félix Servio Ducoudray (1924-1989) was a Dominican writer, journalist, and politician.
Yina Jiménez Suriel is a curator and researcher based in Santiago, Dominican Republic.
Ailton Krenak is a Brazilian writer, journalist, philosopher, and Indigenous Peoples Movement leader.
Marilia Loureiro is a Brazilian curator and researcher.
José Maceda (1917-2004) was a Filipino ethnomusicologist and composer.
Ariana Nuala is a Brazilian curator and scholar.
Suely Rolnik is a Brazilian psychoanalyst, art and cultural critic, professor and curator.
Jo-ey Tang is Director of KADIST San Francisco.
Dénètem Touam Bona is a writer, curator, and philosopher, who lives between Réunion and France.