Schedule

Artists & Collaborators

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.