The Pedregal de San Ángel Ecological Reserve, UNAM (REPSA), is located south of Mexico City, within Ciudad Universitaria. Because of its location and biodiversity, it is considered an exceptional natural and biocultural heritage, not only within the Mexican context but also in the world. The reserve protects the Pedregal volcanic landscape, in which the area's endemic ecosystem develops freely and where the unique relationship between flora and fauna and the rocky terrain left by the eruption of the Xitle volcano is visible. This tour, led by Dr. Silke Cram, is an opportunity to learn about the ways of life, peculiarities and challenges of this biodiverse microcosm within one of the largest cities in the world.
After the visit, the artist and choreographer Bárbara Foulkes will invite us to take a tour activating all the senses of our body to observe nature from a kinetic and perceptual perspective, redefining our relationship with the landscape, the territory and its stories. We will walk backwards, we will look with our hands, we will taste the sound and we will travel through the lava lands, breathing the humid rock like our tongues.
Biologist and researcher at the Institute of Geography of the UNAM. She has a degree in Biology, a Master of Science from the Faculty of Science of the UNAM and a PhD in Agronomy from the Agricultural University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany. She is currently Executive Secretary of REPSA and Senior Researcher “B”. His research topics are soil conservation and degradation, pollution from mining and oil activities, and he has recently focused his interest on the importance of soils in cities. She has carried out research projects on conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity, and is part of a working group that discusses comprehensive risk assessment models. He has participated in several multidisciplinary projects such as: “Mixteca Alta Geopark”, “Evaluation of ecosystem services in urban soils”. She teaches courses at the postgraduate level on Soil Degradation and Pollution and in the degree in Earth Sciences and Biology: Soil Restoration, Geopedregal Restoration, and Environmental Diagnosis and Risk Assessment.
Instagram: @silkecram
Instagram: @repsa_cu
She is an artist, choreographer and cultural manager. Her work is linked to interdiscipline, developing exhibition and art education works. Within her practice, the body is the starting point for expanded research. She understands choreography as the relationships that are established between bodies and ideas and approaches drawing and writing as an extension of the ephemeral, a way of documenting action and making it material for sensitive study. Her most outstanding pieces are Reef co-authored with Colectivo AM, commissioned by the MUAC; Float, Insist Insist Insist co-authored with Abraham Cruzvillegas; Nine Point Eight co-authored with Nuria Armenta, among others. Published How to stand for 10 hours, with Gato Negro Ediciones 2020. She was a beneficiary artist of EMPAC, Experimental Media and Performing Arts, NY, Tanztage, Berlin and Landeshauptstadt, Munich Kulturreferat, Germany; Tamayo Museum, among others. Heraisaj work has been presented at SAPS, La Tallera, MUAC, Museo Experimental el Eco, The Kitchen Performance Center NY, Redcat, Pacific Standart Time, LA, Teatro Pradillo, Madrid, among other venues. She was selected as Performing Artist of 2019 by the magazine The Tempest. He has lived and worked in Mexico since 2008.
Instagram: @barbarafoulkes_
Arte Abierto inicia su programa de mediación y comunicación educativa 2022 con una conversación entre la investigadora y escritora Irmgard Emmelhainz y Sebastien Noel de Troika, tomando la exposición No Sound of Water como punto de partida. Abordarán los temas presentes en este proyecto, como el Antropoceno, y harán diferentes lecturas y cuestionamientos (Materialist Realism / Philosophy of Matter / Art as Image).
Irmgard Emmelhainz transmitirá en vivo desde No Sound of Water en Arte Abierto.
