09.10.2017 - 18.12.2017
Co-edited by Pilar Tompkins Rivas
Smuggling is a counter-hegemonic practice of dissent and subversion often used in the artistic, social or economic fields to move information, objects, and bodies through oppressive boundaries. Indeed, the systems that direct us all seem stiff but hide cracks, which offer the possibility of subverting their structures by disguising subjectivities, and making use of the tensions between legality and illegality, visibility and invisibility, to disrupt values and limits.
A fayuquero, in Mexican colloquial Spanish, is a person “who is dedicated to selling the merchandise acquired through smuggling.” While the free market, with NAFTA-type or the Pacific Alliance regulations, recommends the effective and fluid circulation of objects and goods, its vision limited by capitalism, does not contemplate the plurality found in the diversity of human beings to also include marginalized bodies, identities, and ideas. The real fayuca to be threaded to the mainstream in our time, beyond screens and microwaves, would not be the progressive ideals that have drowned in the slow shipwreck of the modern left? Or also, those initiatives that challenge the hegemonic order?
In this issue of Terremoto, we will talk about the ability of the art to move away from secrecy to openly criticize the reality, a dangerous right that has been conquered throughout history. We will recognize the ambiguity of the relationship we have with the systems of power that make us visible (at their convenience), that provide us with the resources to operate, or on the contrary, try to disappear us, both in relation to the institution and the market. We will honestly assess our aspirations of independence from the economic to the conceptual and ethical, considering dissent, disguise, and trap as possible and perhaps still desirable resources.
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2017
"Butchalis de Panochtitlan". Photo by Héctor Silva. Image courtesy of Raquel Gutiérrez
10 2017
09.10.2017
Issue 10: Fayuquerxs
Sam Durant, Rafa Esparza, Sandra de la Loza, Iván Argote, Pilar Tompkins Rivas
Pilar Tompkins Rivas reflects on the importance of questioning historical narratives and the infrastructure that sustains them in light of the recent events in the United States around the protest and removal of confederate monuments.
10 2017
16.10.2017
Issue 10: Fayuquerxs
Nadinne Canto Novoa
Nadinne Canto Novoa analyzes the student movement in Chile, looking at the collective performance actions that characterized their protests in the context of Debord’s society of the spectacle.
10 2017
23.10.2017
Issue 10: Fayuquerxs
Guadalupe Rosales, Laura Aguilar, Raquel Gutiérrez, Carribean Fragoza
Desde una reflexión sobre la importancia de espacios seguros para la resistencia y disidencia, Carribean Fragoza escribe sobre la comunidad lésbica chicanx queer en Los Ángeles.
10 2017
30.10.2017
Issue 10: Fayuquerxs
Daniel Joseph Martínez, Matthew Stromberg
A conversation between Matthew Stromberg and Daniel Joseph Martinez about the multiplicity of art and its ability to overturn specific contexts.
10 2017
06.11.2017
Issue 10: Fayuquerxs
Lucas Rehnman, André Sztutman
50 years after the Tropicália movement that reshaped the culture of Brazil, André Sztutman and Lucas Rehnman contextualize the movement and reflect on its impact to sketch out the tropicalist legacy today.
10 2017
13.11.2017
Issue 10: Fayuquerxs
Entre
Members of the space Entre in Uruguay present reflections about the left, art, science and militancy in a neoliberal context to incite a dialogue that contemplates the counterhegemonic critical action.
10 2017
20.11.2017
Issue 10: Fayuquerxs
Rolando López, Edgar Alejandro Hernández
Edgar Hernández escribe sobre el Museo Guggenheim Aguascalientes, proyecto del artista Rolando López que rescata críticamente la huella imperialista y explotadora de la familia Guggenheim en México.
10 2017
27.11.2017
Issue 10: Fayuquerxs
Nao Bustamante, Jimena Sarno, Juan Capistrán, Sandra de la Loza, Daniela Lieja Quintanar
Daniela Lieja Quintanar conducts four short interviews that address the reforming quality of art from the practice of four artists from Los Angeles.
10 2017
04.12.2017
Issue 10: Fayuquerxs
Virginia Lázaro Villa
From a foucauldian gaze, Virginia Lázaro analyses the work of Fritzia Irízar and Mario de Vega to address hegemonic control from its abstraction in the image and financial speculation era.
10 2017
11.12.2017
Issue 10: Fayuquerxs
Carmen Argote, Victor Albarracín Llanos
The artist Carmen Argote talks with curator Víctor Albarracín about her family history located between Los Angeles and Guadalajara, and how her notion of home informed by her mestizo identity has influenced her artistic work.
10 2017
18.12.2017
Issue 10: Fayuquerxs
Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba
From the privatization of banking in Mexico, the Fobaproa, and art as an independent territory, Daniel Aguilar Ruvalcaba prepares a plan to be able to pay the debt of his father with BBVA Bancomer grant.
