“Pangea Underground” will be an online, interactive e-anthology with words, pictures, videos, songs, and other mediums. In an attempt to answer the question, “What does the Underground say now, today?”, the anthology will include artists from different media and outlets.

Before the continental drift, the earth’s tectonic plates were huddled together in what was known as “Pangea”; it is, geographically, the world before separation — and so represents a deep and vast connection beyond borders. It also signifies a leap and connection in time; a yearning, even, between the past and present.

“Pangea” — the land before borders — goes by many names: Aztlan, the Mountain Top, the Promised Land.

The Underground is many things, too; but usually indicates a movement toward something from displacement. The word is most commonly associated with Harriet Tubman’s Underground Railroad — the passage from the South to the North. There are also, more modernly, Undergrounds between the Mexican and United Statesian borders. The Underground is also the passage one takes, moving from home to somewhere more promising — if even sometimes not by choice.

The Underground also refers to an artistic capital, that does not quite have a central geography. Both of these Undergrounds used song as resistance and existence. The Underground is the invisible capital. The Underground is where artists come together — within themselves and others — to sing, dance, walk, write, and draw.

over 25 artists have already agreed to contribute and represent: videography, graffiti, poetry, spoken word, muralists, beat boys, DJs, rap, community activists and organizers, singers, and dancers.

Malik Crumpler – Oakland, NYC, Paris | rap, poetry, video, manifesto

Andrew J Padilla – Spanish Harlem’s El Barrio | film, manifesto, photo

Gibrán Papaloyaotl Güido – San Diego | poetry

Jordan Kurzyniec – Tx | song and poetry video

Lorena Armstrong-Duarte – El Salvador, Mpls | spoken word and poetry video

DJ Poon, Lawrence L. Poon – SF, NYC | DJ/beats

Gabriela Hernandez – New Mexico | drawings, murals

Wang Ping – Red Chinese Sea, NYC, The Cities | poetry

Daniel Ismael Aguilar – Chicago | manifesto

Seven Kings – NYC| video, ball room

Rodrigo Sanchez-Chavarria – Mpls | spoken word and poetry video

Soul What Cru – NYC | B-Boys

Quique Gutierrez – Tx | video

Cabo Blanco (Henry Cardenas) – Brooklyn | DJ/beats

Michael Mlekoday – Mpls | poetry

Emanuel Xavier – Brooklyn | poetry

Rigoberto Lara Guzmán – Cali, NYC | mural, video

Jonathan Jaimes – Funky Town, Tx | drawing, graffiti, image

Shonto Begay – Diné Nation| painting, poetry

Bao Phi – Minneapolis | spoken word and poetry video

Shana L. Redmond – Cali, NYC | “Anthem” author, manifesto

Dread Star (Kwame Phillips) – DJ/beats

Josmar Trujillo – NYC | manifesto

Arnoldo Hurtado – Tx | drawing

Sonia Gutiérrez – Cali | poetry

André Do Brasil – NYC, Brasil | dance, video, image

Charlie Vazquez – the Bronx | poetry, writing

Max Petrone – Italy | drawing, visual art, graffiti