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	<title>Side by Side &#187; Chiapas</title>
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		<title>Pinhole photography from Chiapas</title>
		<link>http://www.sidebyside.net.au/2010/05/01/pinhole-photography-from-chiapas</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 08:20:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out recent work from 3 Indigenous women photographers who have been participating in a pinhole photography workshop with Rachel Sokal, new employee of AFI/CPP&#8230;. click here to see a taster of an upcoming pinhole exhibition they are putting together. Those of you who have looked at recent Side by Side online gallery exhibitions of Indigenous photography from Chiapas will recognise the names of some of the participants (click here to go to the gallery and have a look at works from Juana López López and Antonia Girón Intzín). If you are interested in the process of this kind of workshop you can check out pinhole workshop facilitator and photographer Rachel Sokals blog on the unfolding workshop process&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Exhibition from Refugia Guzmán Pérez, Ch&#8217;ol photographer from Chiapas Mexico</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 00:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[From the Rural Community to the City - Refugia Guzman Pérez]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Participatory Visual Research]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Side by Side Gallery is proud to present the online exhibition &#8220;From the Rural Community to the City- The Chol ethnic group in Chiapas, Mexico&#8221; -photographic works by Refugia Guzmán Pérez, a Ch&#8217;ol photographer from the Chiapas Photography Project (CPP) and the Archivo Fotográfico Indígena (AFI) – Chiapas, Mexico. Read an introduction to the exhibition by CPP/AFI founder and director Carlota Duarte below, and visit Side by Side Gallery – Refugia Guzmán Pérez to view the online exhibition (or follow links to Project Galleries on the Side By Side blog). It pleases all of us involved in the Chiapas Photography Project to share this unique work in process by Refugia Guzmán Pérez. Refugia conceived of this personal photo project as a way to link the past and present of her family and her Chol community. Since 1997, Refugia has been photographing her family in rural Salto de Agua and urban San Cristóbal de Las Casas. She supplements her vision of her family’s life with the old photographs she was able to collect from family members. Indigenous people in Chiapas rarely have photos from earlier generations, making Refugia’s project a distinct contribution to indigenous art and history. While the project speaks of Refugia’s family’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exhibition from the Chiapas Photography Project &amp; Archivo Fotográfico Indígena</title>
		<link>http://www.sidebyside.net.au/2009/12/07/ccpexpo</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 20:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maya</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chiapas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chiapas Indigenous Photography Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chiapas Photography Project & Archivo Fotográfico Indígena]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chiapas Photography Project; Archivo Fotográfico Indígena; Museo de Mujeres]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Side by Side Gallery is proud to present an exhibition from the Chiapas Photography Project (CPP) and the Archivo Fotográfico Indígena (AFI) &#8211; Chiapas, Mexico. Visit Side by Side Gallery &#8211; CPP/AFI exhibition to view the online exhibition (or follow links to Project Galleries on the Side By Side blog). Side by Side Project Galleries feature works made in collaborative art and ethnography projects around the world. These are projects that work with individuals and communities to tell stories – of their lives, places, histories and cultures – using creative tools, such as photography, film, creative writing, visual arts… The aim of the gallery is to showcase works to a wider audience, to support artists and practitioners to share their practices, and to inspire ongoing collaborative and creative practice locally and internationally. If you would like to exhibit work in this gallery, or to find out more information about featured projects or the Side by Side Blog (Practices in Collaborative Ethnography through Art) and gallery contact Maya Haviland.]]></description>
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		<title>Mundanzas: Migraciones Múltiples</title>
		<link>http://www.sidebyside.net.au/2009/11/13/mundanzas</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Archivo Fotografico Indigena]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chiapas Indigenous Photography Project]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[online exhibition; Museo de Mujeres; Chiapas Photography Project; Archivo Fotográfico Indígena]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The photographic exhibition Mundanzas: Migraciones Múltiples, which includes work from 4 photographers associated with AFI/CPP in Chiapas Mexico is opening in Mexico City this week and then in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico on the 21st of November 2009. Selected materials from the exhibition and catalogue can be seen online through the Museo de Mujeres. Check out in particular the work of CPP/AFI photographers Juana López López, Antonia Giron Intzin, Refugia Guzman Pérez and Pasquala Hernádez - Click here to go to the online exhibition.]]></description>
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		<title>More info about the Chiapas Photography Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 21:42:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maya</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Chiapas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This information is provided to augment the launch of an online exhibition of works from the Chiapas Photography Project and the Archivo Fotográfico Indígena in the Side by Side gallery. Click here to go to the exhibition. Since 1992, the Chiapas Photography Project (CPP) has provided indigenous Maya peoples in Chiapas, Mexico with the opportunity to use photography for their own creative ends. As a result of CPP’s collaboration with indigenous photographers and with support from the Ford Foundation, the Archivo Fotográfico Indígena (AFI) was started in 1996. It consists of photographs and multi-lingual texts by more than 200 men and women photographers from ten ethnic groups and is located at an academic research center in San Cristóbal de Las Casas. In 2002 the photographers formed an independent association, Lok’tamayach Fotógrafos Mayas de Chiapas, to teach photography and promote the work of the photographers. CPP has produced exhibitions, books and publications, and Mirror to Our World, a limited-edition high-quality portfolio of twelve black &#38; white images, numbered and signed by the photographers and boxed in a hand-woven textile slipcase from Chiapas. u To obtain more information about CPP, volunteer opportunities, and how to support CPP activities and the CPP endowment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Women&#8217;s stories in women&#8217;s words (and pictures&#8230;)</title>
		<link>http://www.sidebyside.net.au/2009/09/08/womens-stories-in-womens-voices</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 21:08:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[book-making]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Derby]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jalaris]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melel Xojobal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neighborhood Story Project]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mexico]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Singing Out]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2008 I collaborated with Rachel Breunlin from the Neighborhood Story Project (based in New Orleans, Louisiana USA) and Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation (based in Derby, Western Australia) on a collaborative writing and photography project which resulted in the book Singing Out &#8211; Aboriginal Ladies Stories of the North West Kimberley. The project aimed at documenting and sharing the diverse stories of Aboriginal women’s experiences of education and learning using writing, interviewing and photography, and forms part of the community-based research on issues for Indigenous kids and families in Derby on which Jalaris and I have been collaborating for many years. Click here to read more about Singing Out, including links to a podcast of readings from the book launch and some pages from the book&#8230; You can also go here, to Side by Side Community Project Consulting website to read more generally about what Jalaris Aboriginal Corporation is up to&#8230; We are all pretty proud of Singing Out &#8211; its a great read and a beautiful object, and we think (not wanting to be too modest!) that its a good contribution to literature in and about the Kimberley region of Australia, as well as a document of womens stories that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taller de Leñateros</title>
		<link>http://www.sidebyside.net.au/2009/08/19/taller-de-lenateros</link>
		<comments>http://www.sidebyside.net.au/2009/08/19/taller-de-lenateros#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:51:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[book-making]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, arriving in the drizzling rain into a warm house in which about 20 people work making paper, handstiching books, screen and wood block printing posters, postcards, and the pages of the various books they publish. I watched sheets of paper being made from the outside fibers of banana trees and dyed a deep black, and 1000 copies of a single page from a book being carefully hand printed with silk screens. I am hoping to commission two book-like-things for a video installation I am working on, so with any luck will get to spend some more time in the beautiful workshop over coming weeks. Apart from the undeniable beauty and aesthetic satisfaction of the books and papers they produce (I am a sucker for handmade paper), this group is another flourishing example of a project that integrates collaborative art practices and cultural documentation here in Chiapas. They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Digital photography &amp; representing migration with AFI photographers</title>
		<link>http://www.sidebyside.net.au/2009/08/19/digital-photography-workshops-afi</link>
		<comments>http://www.sidebyside.net.au/2009/08/19/digital-photography-workshops-afi#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 20:13:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Archivo Fotografico Indigena]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chiapas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Photography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self representation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[museo de mujeres artistas mexicanas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[what Maya is doing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 new photographic work responding to the theme of migration as they experience it in their lives and communities. The curator of this exhibition will visit San Cristobal next week to begin the process of curating works made by the AFI photographers. When I arrived in Chiapas several of the women had already made a body of work for this project, but several others were having difficulty making the images they wanted on the film cameras AFI has.  AFI and the Chiapas Indigenous Photography Project have, to date, mainly used film in their work, although they do have a box of old digital cameras that they have acquired over the years. Looking at these cameras (see below) was a sobering reminder of how rapidly digital technology becomes obsolete &#8211; some of these cameras were 1.2 megapixels, and none were over 3.2 megapixels&#8230; I sadly had to inform [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intro to participatory video making in and around San Cristobal De Las Casas</title>
		<link>http://www.sidebyside.net.au/2009/08/07/intro-pvm-in-scdlc</link>
		<comments>http://www.sidebyside.net.au/2009/08/07/intro-pvm-in-scdlc#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:58:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chiapas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chiapas Media Project /Promedios]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Indigenous Video Makers of the Southern Frontera Project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Video]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 by cultural ‘outsiders’) with collaborative arts practices. This rich activity seems to be the result of a combination of Chiapas’ long term history of anthropological and archaeological research; changes in contemporary and particularly Mexican social science and humanities practices towards collaborative models; a lively arts community; and altered Indigenous politics in Mexico following the Zapatista uprising in 1994. Participatory video making in particular has seen a boom of activity in Chiapas since the emergence of modern day Zapatismo, which utilises digital media networks to gain and maintain support for the movement and also has made explicit calls for Indigenous controlled media systems in Mexico. In contrast to Australia, which has had various forms of government-sponsored Indigenous-controlled media since the 1980’s, such networks are newer in Mexico, and were mostly seeded by NGO&#8217;s. (Students of Communications I have met here in Mexico inform me of a lively [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FOMMA &#8211; collaborative women&#8217;s theatre</title>
		<link>http://www.sidebyside.net.au/2009/08/07/fomma-collaborative-theatre</link>
		<comments>http://www.sidebyside.net.au/2009/08/07/fomma-collaborative-theatre#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 00:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Maya</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chiapas]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 (Fortaleza del las Mujeres Mayas de los Altos) to found their first Latin American centre in San Cristobal De Las Casas, Chiapas, Mexico. In 1994 Petrona de la Cruz and Isabel Juárez Espinosa founded FOMMA – which aims to support and stengthen Mayan women of the highlands of Chiapas. Both women had been writers with Sna Tzi’bojom (The House of the Writer) (see a previous post for a few links to things about Sna Tzi&#8217;bojom) and had written a number of successful plays about Indigenous womens lives in the highlands of Chiapas.  If you read spanish check out their biographies on the FOMMA webpage. FOMMA does a variety of community development and support projects, including supporting literacy and education of women in 2 local Indigenous languages (Tzotzil &#38; Tzeltal), providing training and enterprise development, such as running a bakery, a clothing and textiles workshop,  providing childcare and [...]]]></description>
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