About 5 blocks from where I am living in San Cristobal De Las Casas is the workshop (taller in spanish) of a wonderful collective of Mayan artists who publish, write, illustrate and bind their own books, including making the paper they print on out of local and recycled materials. I visited the workshop today,...
This week the AFI (Archivo Fotografico Indigena) came back from a 3 week summer vacation and they have hit the ground running making final preparations for a project they are participating in commissioned by Museo de Mujeres Artistas Méxicanas about diverse experiences of migracion. 5 women associated with AFI have been invited to develop...
Images in this post thanks to Indigenous Video Makers of the Southern Frontera Project CIESAS Sureste IN the town of San Cristobal de las Casas there is an astounding wealth of activities that are combining practices of collaborative ethnography (that is people documenting their own cultures and community, rather that this work being done...
This week, at the invitation of Doris Difarnecio, Director of the Centro Hemisférico/FOMMA in San Cristobal, I visited FOMMA and was introduced to a truly fascinating organization and set of projects. In a previous post I mentioned the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics, which is based at NYU and has partnered with FOMMA...