Plot Dialogues is an ongoing harvest born out of a research project initiated during an MA at the Center for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths. This archive is a mixture of found content, books, laws, articles, recipes, field work drawings and video stills of several ejidos* predominantly in Chiapas, Mexico. The research material lives inside a cultivation plot where items can be in dialogue with one another. Here structures of land governance, communal land holding, cultivation and local stories can co-exist in an alternate digital world outside their agrarian contexts. Plot Dialogues aims to hold and showcase the inseparable relationship of social and biological life. This continuous biological-social commoning are the details that work to shelter knowledge. The multi-scalar dialogue from soil to the hands of the woman who tends her traspatio,* complicates reducibility and instead argues that scenes of everydayness help form political opposition.

*communal land holding *cultivation area next to the home

Research and design by Andrea Macias-Yañez