Living Thought Conversations
Aldo Ramos: On Rooted Thought
Wednesday, 3 December 2025, 6-8 pm
The National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Sala Acvariu
Monetăriei Str. 3, Bucharest
The program Cultivators of Life, organized by tranzit.ro/Bucharest, continues the series of conversations in Living Thought, presenting Aldo Ramos (Mexic/Olanda).
The conversations in Living Thought aim to introduce contemporary scholars and artists who are working in the emerging field of knowledge and practices relating to land, to indigenous/ancestral knowledges and eco-social realities, and who are proposing not only reviews of the problems, but visionary alternative paths. Continuing of the ongoing work of the Experimental Station for Research on Art and Life, the intellectual conversations in Living Thought are imagined as tools of conviviality aiming to spark the radical imagination needed to change our relations to culture, to re-orient our sense of the world, and to regain an ethical life outside the ongoing war on life.
Aldo Ramos: On Rooted Thought
The current existential and planetary crisis underscores the need to envision other ways of understanding what goes on in the world and the need to relate differently to Earth and the other. Aldo Ramos questions in his work, in conversation with indigenous thought: If our thoughts are threads on a larger weaving, a fabric that shapes our reality, then what is the fabric our thoughts are woven into? How can we root our thoughts in the fabric that sustains life and us?
The talk will be followed by a conversation with Ovidiu Țichindeleanu.
𝐀𝐥𝐝𝐨 𝐑𝐚𝐦𝐨𝐬 (b. 1986, Mexico) uses art as a platform to promote pluriversal rather than universal knowledge. His practice is a service, a retribution to Earth that is shaped by the experience of listening and encourages relational ways of being with the Earth as re-existence. His practice is directed towards social healing by facilitating spaces for the practice of ancestral knowledges. In his practice, relationality is more important than the work itself. Aldo has established a connection through his practice with other people who aspire to construct alternatives to the current system. He also co-founded Pluriversity Umunukunu (Pluriversity Weavers), together with the Iku (Arhuaco), who are considered living seeds of hope in other possible worlds. Aldo is a co-founder of the Weaving Realities collective, with which he organizes performances and workshops by thinking-feeling with living Earth. He currently lives and works in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The event is part of the program Cultivators of Life, a multianual project organized by tranzit.ro/Bucharest Association and co-financed by The Administration of the National Cultural Fund. The program continues and supports the activities started in 2021 at the Experimental Research Station for Research on Art and Life in Siliștea Snagovului, focused on conserving biodiversity, testing ecological prototypes, and rethinking the relationship between soils, materials and artistic production. Curated by Adelina Luft, the program proposes the study and formulation of a new lexicon and practices related to an emerging relationship between indigenous/ancestral knowledge, land cultivation and natural sciences, realized through a series of artistic residencies, open events in gardens around Bucharest, applied workshops, conferences with indigenous thinkers and a final group in 2026 at MODEM – Center for Modern and Contemporary Art in Debrecen.
The program does not necessarily represent the official position of the Administration of the National Cultural Fund. AFCN shall not be held liable for the program's content or any use to which the program outcome might be put. These are the sole responsibility of the beneficiary of the funding.
