Planetarische Bauern

The multidisciplinary collaborative practice of New York- an Berlin-based artist duo Enzo Camacho (born 1985 in Manila, Philippines) and Ami Lien (born 1987 in Dallas, USA) revolves around questions of power, property and ownership at the root of the racial capitalist system. From a small community parcel in downtown Manhattan to the vast sugarcane fields of Negros, an island in the Philippines, they examine how hegemonic power asserts itself under and over land. They also reflect on the place and responsibility of artistic labour in the constellation of resistance. Their presentation in Planetary Peasants includes their recent film Langit Lupa (2023) alongside earlier and newly commissioned handmade paper works incorporating organic plant matter. Langit Lupa, the result of long-term research into the sugar plantation system of Negros, is an experimental documentary that centres around the story and impact of the 1985 Escalante Massacre, in which government paramilitary forces opened fire on a peaceful protest rally largely consisting of sugar workers.