La Escuela de Cultura Popular Revolucionaria Mártires del 68

La Escuela de Cultura Popular Revolucionaria Mártires del 68

La Escuela de Cultura Popular Revolucionaria Mártires del 68
Wirikuta, 2012
Publisher: La Escuela de Cultura Popular Revolucionaria
Mártires del 68
Origin: Mexico City Mexico
Medium: silkscreen
Binding: paper case
Dimensions: 14.75 in W x 21.75 in H x 1.5 in D
Pages: 37
Edition Size: 75
Description:
Wirikuta is a portfolio about the incursion of mining interests into
the sacred Wirikuta lands of the Huichol peoples. First Majestic
Silver has obtained permission from the Mexican government
for its proposed La Luz Silver Project for the extraction of silver
in the Sierra Decatorce. This extraction process transgresses
the laws and covenants that protect the area Wirikuta and the
Wixarika peoples at national and international levels.
The mining site represents a threat to the environment balance
and health of the population in the area, and its greater social
impact is the division of local peoples. Chemical substances
used in the mining process from previous mines are destroying
resources at multiple levels. For example, the mining sites will consume irrational amounts of water in an already arid region. The Escuela joins
people and organizations around the world in trying to raise awareness of this tragedy and catalyze an ethical alternative to mining and thus
desecrating sacred lands and destroying fragile environments.Five elder artists from the Escuala choose 5 artists to participate, then each artist
made a print concerning the current Wirikuta controversy.
The prints are contained in a 22 by 14 3/4 x 1 3/4 inches silkscreened card board box with a Huichol handbeaded inset disk 3 1/4 inch circumfrence.
One DVD with photos of the artwork, the artists and a Wirikuta pilgrimage.
One CD with the 5 Spanish texts and translations of the 5 texts into English and French.
Full contributor list:
Lucía Vidales Argelia Leodegario Elizabeth Mota Rico Elisa Suárez Zavaleta Adriana Hernández Sosa Sarah Tisdall Adolfo Mexiac Aldo
Miguel López Arturo Reyes Mata Mariana Sasso Rojas Eduardo Juárez Fernando Diyarza Ismael Ramírez Cortez Gandhi Noyola Velázquez
Francisco Ulises Plancarte Morales Octavio Jiménez Jorge Pérez Vega Joel Martínez Huerta Leonel Martínez Tenorio Lesly Yobany Mendoza
Mendoza Rómulo Escuerdo Santiago Armengod Román Varela Vázquez Roberto Romero Alguilar Raymundo Luis Garcia Rodríguez Antonio
Valverde Felipe Herneandez Iseo Noyola Isgleas Leopoldo Morales Praxedis Mario Arturo Romero Aguilar Ignacio Betancourt Alberto Hijar
Serrano Alberto Becerril Montekio Jacinto López Villa y familia Mauricio Genet Guzmán Chávez Refugio Solis
Institutional Collectors:
University of Connecticut (UCONN)
Washington University of St. Louis
University of California at Irvine (UCI)
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