Xunaxidó

Wor(l)ds within Wor(l)ds

Digital or visual products (2023)

Authors

Elena Pérez Guembe Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment

E. Pérez Guembe Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment

Research Group

Situated Architecture (Architecture and the Built Environment) (TU Delft)

Identity Earthquake Indigenous women accounts Zapotec artisans Architectural crisis Patrimony loss

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Published Date

2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Department

Architecture

Research Group

Situated Architecture

Abstract

This documentary narrates through Zapotec women voices the entanglement of language, culture, myths, beliefs, natural catastrophes and the quotidian experience of these women in their communities. A material I worked with to create an installational work in a Zapotec community of black clay women artisans from Oaxaca, Mexico. It is the continuation of “Oaxaca. Earth moves”, a project which explores the earthquake suffered in Mexico in September of 2017, through my work with black clay in the house-workshop of a Zapotec woman who hosted me during several periods of time.