Photo: Alejandro Ramírez Teresa Borasino
Teresa Borasino is a Peruvian artist and educator based in Amsterdam. Her work balances upon the fertile edges between art and activism — the space between poetics, politics, and radical engagement with social movements. Her practice spans diverse forms, including performance, public interventions, writing, video essays, and artistic gatherings, as well as teaching, cultural production, and group facilitation.
In 2021, Teresa began a long-term artistic research into the Andean Cosmovision and its tapestry of ancestral knowledges and practices. Her current research addresses the interplay between cultural erasure and (lithium) extractivism at Quelccaya glacier in the Southern Andes of Peru. This work was part of the BAK Fellowship for Situated Practice in 2023–2024.
Teresa is founder of the platform Quelccaya and co-convener of Towards Post-Extractive Cultures. She is also a tutor at Planetary Poetics, Sandberg Institute, and together with Shailoh Philips, the co-initiator of Reschooling With. She was co-founder of Fossil Free Culture, an artist collective dedicated to ending oil and gas sponsorship in the arts.
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