tricontinentale.net aims to revisit the historical prospect of the Tricontinental Movement created mainly by activists, theorists and artists from the global South as a major references point for non-aligned transnational solidarity projects until today. Constituted as an anti-colonial and non-aligned resistance the Tricontinental Movement from the mid-1960ties onwards had direct effects for the constitution of the New Left and various Third World solidarity initiatives in the Northern hemisphere. By looking back into this contested history tricontinentale.net aims to reflect so called Third World relations and their trajectories. It will follow revolutionary projections as well as concrete solidarity project and lived realities. It asks about solidarity on different levels, from concept, ideology and imagination to organization, exchange, distribution over to political and cultural affinities and concrete personal encounters.

The tricontinentale.net focus is on this transnational and translocal encounters as well as on the role visual artists, writers and filmmakers have played for the constitution of the movement and societal change in search for radical post-colonial aesthetics. With this shift in perspective – looking from the South and East back to the North/West and through the arts and cultural practices back to politics – the project aims to overcome the conceptual frame of continentalism as well as a post-war, post-89 European paradigm of contemporaneity. Instead it will take anti-colonial and non-aligned movements and the decline of the Empires as central reference points to review and imagine worldly relations. With this change in perspective the project asks about trajectories and traces of solidarity practices and Third Worldism and the role of Contemporary art practices for and within this concepts.

tricontinentale.net will thus connect existing as well as projected studies, articles, art and film projects. It aims to discuss, publish and exhibit tricontinental, transidentificatory relations and its encounters by reviewing magazines, artefacts, film works, archives and documents. It will use and propose methods of artistic and scientific research in exchange. tricontinentale.net will involve visual artists as well as cultural and social scientist as authors and in editorial members who already revisit practices of the 1960ties and 1970ties in which ideas of Tricontinentalism were published, performed and negotiated as an alternative pathway to Cold War binarism, Neo-Colonialism and Neo-Imperialism in the era of decolonization. By connecting artistic research projects, film screenings, public viewings, panel discussions the tricontinentale.net aims to publicly present and critically debate internationalist movements before 1989 and after that went beyond common cold-war binaries.