Name: Entre la Coca: Unrooted Forests: Ecology, Memory, and Reciprocity
Start: 2025-12-12T16:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-12T18:00:00-05:00
Location: Snug Harbor Cultural Center and Botanical Garden

Entre la Coca: Unrooted Forests: Ecology, Memory, and Reciprocity

Exhibiting artist Tatiana Arocha and curator Juliana Steiner will share an intimate conversation and exhibition walk-through of Entre la Coca y el Oro. Over a cup of coca tea, Arocha and Steiner will revisit the ideas that gave shape to the curatorial essay "Unrooted Forests: Ecology, Memory, and Reciprocity in Tatiana Arocha’s Practice," reflecting on both artistic and curatorial perspectives.
Together, they will explore the exhibition’s central threads—ecology, displacement, reciprocity, and care—while walking through its installations and discussing how ancestral knowledge and extractive economies intersect in Arocha’s work. The evening offers a space to pause, listen, and think with the coca plant.
Please note that this event will be conducted primarily in Spanish, with English translation provided.
WHEN: December 12 | 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
WHERE: Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Building C, Main Hall Gallery at Snug Harbor (View site map and directions: https://snug-harbor.org/visit/directions/)
ADMISSION: $5 | Student/Senior: $4 (Gallery admission included)
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Acompaña a la artista Tatiana Arocha y a la curadora Juliana Steiner en una conversación íntima y en un recorrido por la exposición Entre la Coca y el Oro. Mientras comparten una taza de té de coca, Arocha y Steiner retomarán las ideas que dieron forma al texto curatorial “Bosques sin raíces: ecología, memoria y reciprocidad en la práctica de Tatiana Arocha”, reflexionando desde las perspectivas de la artista y de la curadora.
Juntas explorarán los hilos centrales de la exposición —ecología, desplazamiento, reciprocidad y cuidado— mientras recorren sus instalaciones y dialogan sobre cómo el conocimiento ancestral y las economías extractivas se entrelazan en la obra de Arocha. La velada invita a detenerse, escuchar y pensar junto a la planta de coca: un ser que, como recuerda la artista, “conecta mundos; nos hace hablar y nos habla”.
Entre la Coca y el Oro is an exhibition by Tatiana Arocha that weaves art and community together to reclaim the narrative surrounding the coca plant. The exhibition explores coca’s cultural, spiritual, social, and ecological significance while pushing back against colonial and extractivist perspectives. Arocha's work foregrounds ancestral knowledge, environmental justice, and Indigenous resistance, offering a space for collective reflection, education, and artistic exploration.
Exhibition on view: October 12, 2025 – January 11, 2026
Gallery Hours: Friday – Saturday: 12:00 PM – 7:00 PM | Sunday: 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art – Main Hall Gallery in Building C, Snug Harbor, 1000 Richmond Terrace, Staten Island, NY 10301
Entre la Coca y el Oro is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, with additional funding provided by the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts with the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, the Puffin Foundation, New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with the support of the Mayor and the City Council, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Consulado de Colombia en Nueva York, Casas De Colombia Nueva York and Colombia Nos Une.