Psicogeografía

This tracklist (in Spanish) is the product of my workshop "Living Map", organized during the artistic residency in La Antigua, Veracruz, Mexico, in April 2015 . It´s actually a collective work, a geographical representation of the town, based on the stories and the memories  their inhabitants.  La Antigua has a lot of centenary and legendary narrations. The turistic guides like to recount tales of Cortés and his first stay there as conquistador on solid ground. But I wanted to give some attention to the present and the actual reality of the people living there: They´ve had in fact survived a hurricane, poverty, destruction. I worked with the some adults and adolescents of the town. Most of them were the women. And they made it work. We went down through the dusty streets under the midday sun, we stopped in every place where a memory was recalled.  Every one of those places redeemed a life struggle, a victory over oblivion.  I recorded...

Going over a gravel road in Albania, I finally found the beginning of the Drina River. This is the frame that I lost when I pressed the trigger of the camera, a hidden memory that the negative film now returns Taking a picture is closing your eyes according to a plan, and waiting for the dark box to bring up what was missing. ...Of what reminds me that devotion? Berlin, September 2013 Sorteando un camino de ripios en Albania, por fin pude ver la naciente del río Drina.  Éste es el fotograma que perdí cuando apreté el gatillo de la cámara, un recuerdo perdido que ahora me devuelve el negativo del film.  Hacer una foto es cerrar los ojos de acuerdo a un plan, y esperar que la caja oscura concrete lo que falta. ¿A qué me recuerda esa devoción?   Berlín, septiembre de 2013