Almanacs serve as an entry point to imagine geography through situated relations and knowledges. Blending weather forecasts, planetary routes, agricultural advice, and popular wisdom, they operate as alternative maps — weaving time, attention, and experience into a collective intelligence that spans generations. As porous archives of diversity and multiplicity, they resonate with the notion of the ecotone: transition zones between ecosystems where different forms of life intersect, adapt, and coexist. At different scales — cultural and ecological — both almanacs and ecotones are places of contact and intersection, where multiple ways of knowing and living converge.

Ecótono, a video essay by Enar de Dios Rodríguez, extends this reflection. Like an almanac, it becomes a repository of migrations, observations, and narratives.

Works on display

Almanacs: Knowledges in motion (various editions, 1990-2023)
Selection of agricultural and popular almanacs from the Azores and other geographies. Including information from weather forecasts and farming advice to home recipes and popular beliefs linked to the stars, these objects reveal knowledge rooted in a relationship with the territory, the cycles of nature, and popular ways of living and interpreting the world.

Enar de Dios Rodríguez
Ecotone (2022)
An essay on borderlands and the practices of control imposed on spaces to preserve their separation. Structured as a series of fields arranged by scale — from vast natural landscapes to intimate bodily spaces — Ecotone critiques contemporary forms of capitalism, including surveillance capitalism and biocapitalism. Through a wide range of visual materials, the work seeks to activate potential relationalities while revealing how economic, political, historical, and environmental forces intersect.