wednesday december 13
all day
5:30 pm
thursday december 14
9 am
10 am
11 am
1 pm
2 pm
3 pm
4 pm
6 pm
friday december 15
9:30 am
10:30 am
11 am
1 pm
2 pm
4 pm
5:30
saturday december 16
9 am
10.30 am
11 am
1:30 pm
4 pm
7.30 pm
sunday december 17
10 am
BIENVENIDA
Arrival, settle in
Welcome / drinks & botanas on the terrace
Introductions / overview of the week
Welcome dinner from Aurelia Arroyo Nieto
WEAVING / PAST & PRESENT
Breakfast at Pocoapoco
Leave for Teotitlán del Valle
Visit to a farm cultivating natural dyes
Pedal loom demonstration at Taller El Huizache
Lunch by Doña Rosa
Return to city
Artist talk and weaving practice with Adriana Monterrubio and Lucía Novoa Gil
Drinks / wind down at Pocoapoco
WATER & AGROECOLOGICAL PRACTICES
Breakfast at Pocoapoco
Leave for Tlalixtac de Cabrera
Arrive at Terreno Familiar
Conversation and farming practice with Miguel Cinta Robles
Lunch from the garden
Return to the city
Walk down the aqueduct
Discussion about the water situation in Oaxaca
Studio visit with Edith Morales
Conversation about urban agriculture and Milpa system
CLAY & SCULPTURAL PRACTICES
Breakfast at Pocoapoco
Leave for Santa María Atzompa
Arrive at the taller of Francisca Ocampo
Comal-making demonstration
Visit the workshop of Adrian Martínez
Return to the city
Lunch open
Earth pigments workshop with Dell Alvarado
Final conversation and production of plastiglomerates with Julio Barrita
Drinks & closing celebration
CLAUSURA
Closing breakfast & review
Departure
Julio Barrita lives and works in Oaxaca. He has exhibited individually and collectively in México, Brazil, Guatemala, Chile, Spain, and the USA. He has been FONCA (National Fund for Culture and the Arts) scholar under the young artist category in the years 2014, 2016 and 2019. In 2015, he published the book Mirada al Valle (A view to the Valley), followed by Notas atemporales in 2019. His work reflects on the relations between the objects and the images in installations, sculpture, and photography. Collecting, drifting, transformation, and intervention are some of the strategies that are used to enter a relationship with the world through personal reflections.
Miguel Cinta Robles (Margarita) lives between Oaxaca and Mexico City. They studied at the National University of Arts in Buenos Aires and studied visual arts at ENPEG Esmeralda. Their interests focus on building strategies and models that make it possible to create spaces for socialization and learning outside of academic circuits. They are the curator and founder of Margarita, a research space in Oaxaca de Juárez focused on the fusion of technologies such as sculpture and agroecology. They also manage "Domingo de cerro" a project dedicated to generating walks, workshops and activations in the mountains of Oaxaca and other states of the republic. These walks seek to integrate the fields of biology, ecology and the arts with the political contexts of the territories. Currently, they collaborate in the reforestation and eco-construction project "Terreno Familiar" where they are dedicated to planting, building with earth and researching eco-technologies and ways to achieve food sovereignty and live in interdependence with the earth.
Terreno Familiar In February 2019, the Cinta Robles family was able to purchase two lots of 800m2 in the community of Tlalixtac de Cabrera, Oaxaca. The idea was to sell one and with that sale build a house on the other. That didn’t happen, and in its place a planting area was born, an experimental garden project and space for community learning called Aula Viva that is still under construction. After the orchard was founded, we began to take workshops, consult and ally ourselves with other collectives and individuals who also practice permaculture in the Oaxaca Valley. Terreno Familiar is a family nucleus of work and friends <3 from different contexts. United for love for the land, planting and new ways of consuming and protecting food.
Edith Morales The work of Edith Morales uses systematization and data collection to question the system, memory, and un-locatable evidence — confronting the economic policies of capitalism and the violence implicit in them. It questions fiscal architecture, regulations, disappearances and the invisibility of the individual before the system, giving new meaning to the symbols used by the state, the diversion of power, food sovereignty, the territory and biodiversity of native corn species and the dangers they face in the face of dismantling and extractivism policies.