I broke the box where I was suposed to fit in
Living Map of La Antigua, Veracruz
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...
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