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PARALLEL LANDSCAPES

VISITS AROUND EL PREDREGAL

PEDREGAL DE SAN ÁNGEL ECOLOGICAL RESERVE (REPSA)

With Dr Silke Cram and Bárbara Foulkes

Visit two of Paisajes Paralelos is in the Pedregal de San Ángel Ecological Reserve, UNAM (REPSA), located south of Mexico City, within Ciudad Universitaria. Due to its location and its biodiversity, it is considered an exceptional natural and biocultural heritage, not only within the Mexican context but in the world. The reserve protects the volcanic landscape of El Pedregal, in which the endemic ecosystem of the area develops freely and where the unique relationship between flora and fauna and the rocky terrain left behind 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, particularities and challenges of this biodiverse microcosm within one of the largest cities in the world.

After the visit, 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 cross the lands of lava, breathing the wet scree like our tongues.

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DR SILKE CRAM
She is a biologist and researcher at the UNAM Institute of Geography. She has a degree in Biology, a Master of Science from the UNAM Faculty of Sciences and a PhD in Agronomy from the Hohenheim Agricultural University, Stuttgart, Germany. She is currently Executive Secretary of REPSA and Titular “B” researcher. Her research topics are soil conservation and degradation, pollution from mining and oil activities, and she has recently focused her interest on the importance of soils in cities. She has carried out research projects on conservation and sustainable management of biodiversity, and she is part of a working group that discusses comprehensive risk assessment models. She has participated in several multidisciplinary projects such as: “Geopark Mixteca Alta”, “Evaluation of ecosystem services of urban soils”. She teaches graduate level courses on Soil Degradation and Contamination and undergraduate courses in Earth Sciences and Biology: Soil Restoration, Geoscree Restoration, and Environmental Diagnosis and Risk Assessment.

www.repsa.unam.mx/
IG @repsa_cu

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BÁRBARA FOULKES (City of Buenos Aires, 1982)
She is an artist, choreographer and cultural manager. Her work is linked to interdisciplinary, developing exhibition works and art education. Within her practice, the body is the starting point of an expanded investigation. She understands choreography as the relationships established between bodies and ideas and approaches drawing and writing as an extension of the ephemeral, a way of documenting action and turning it into sensitive study material. Her most outstanding pieces are Arrecife co-authored with Colectivo AM, commissioned by MUAC; Fleet, Insist Insist Insist co-authored with Abraham Cruzvillegas; Nine point Eight co-authored with Nuria Armenta, among others. She published Cómo estar 10 horas de pie, with Gato Negro Ediciones 2020. She was a beneficiary artist from EMPAC, Experimental Media and Performing Arts, NY, Tanztage Berlin and Landeshauptstadt Munich Kulturreferat, Germany; Tamayo Museum, among others. Her 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 a 2019 Performing Artist by La Tempestad magazine. She lives and works in Mexico since 2008.

IG @barbarafoulkes_

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PARALLEL LANDSCAPES

VISITS AROUND EL PREDREGAL

ECOLOGIC SPACE OF THE ANAHUACALLI MUSEUM

Guided by the Anahuacalli Museum team.
+ An exercise in experimental drawing by Escrituras vegetales.

To kick off the Parallel Landscapes program, the first visit will be a tour of the Ecologic Space of the Anahuacalli Museum, which is one of the treasures that the Museum houses. In this there are almost 20,000 m2 of endemic vegetation, several water wells, and a sea of volcanic stone from the eruption of the Xitle volcano. This tour helps to understand how the original architecture, projected by Diego Rivera, combines landscape with functionalist architecture and aspects of pre-Hispanic cosmogony; while the architectural expansion serves as a contemporary reinterpretation of the existing buildings and dialogues with the volcanic environment in a game with the rugged topography.

After  the visit trough the Ecologic Space of the Anahuacalli Museum, Escrituras vegetales will share Nos habita un mundo vegetal que habitamos, an activity to reflect on the blurred limits of the notion of interior-exterior, and environment-contour, by which architecture has molded us. A collective drawing will be created on the windows and mirrors of the Anahuacalli workshop, taking into account the landscapes that are reflected and intertwined, playing with the borders of the environments that surround us and that shape the Museum in relation to the plant world.

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Museo Anahuacalli
Projected between 1942-1957 and inaugurated in 1967, the Anahuacalli Museum is a house for pre-Hispanic art, designed by the Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Within his search to create a “City of Arts”, he projected the Anahuacalli as a great stage for the development of various artistic expressions in an atmosphere whose architecture represented the search for the Mexican essence.

http://museoanahuacalli.org.mx/
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IG  Anahuacalli Museum workshops @talleres_anahuacalli