Public Program: The Animist Museum of Lake Texcoco at Muca Roma
The public program of the Animist Museum of Lake Texcoco seeks to understand the problems inherent to Mexico City and its surroundings as a system of structural, historically grounded, interspecies, inter-geographic, and inter-institutional phenomena: an intermingled array of situations which require a congregation of different perspectives to be fully understood. The unequal water distribution policies affecting an entire city; the dispossession caused by an airport; the failed urbanization of its territory; the ecological affectations within apparently isolated environments; the effects of earthquakes; the collapse of buildings are all intertwined: in order to grasp the meaning of one problem, one must firstly examine its part within a large, rapidly changing and complex "totality".
This program has been co-curated by Muca Roma, Ariadna Ramonetti [Islario], and Adriana Salazar.
Cartographies of the lacustrine region
August 30, 6pm: conversations with Emiliano Zolla, Ariadna Ramonetti [Islario], and Adriana Salazar
September 6, 6pm: Conversations with Luis Morett and Patricia Muñoz
September 20, 6pm: "GeoComunes. Collaborative mapping for the defense of common goods." With Adrián Flores and Valeria C. de Pina Ravest
September 21, 12pm: "Parallels between Lake Texcoco and other international conflicted contexts" with Dina Saja from the collective Cunci Cultural Studies (Indonesia)
Geo-biological ecology
Oct 4, 6pm: "I prefer the lake" by Fernando Cordova Tapia (Union of Scientists Committed to Society)
Oct 5, 8am: Visit to the Lake Texcoco Ecological Reserve (this event requires registration)
Oct 11, 6pm: The environmental devastation suffered by ancient Lake Texcoco, a conversation with Juan José Reyes and Miguel Sámano
Oct 18, 6pm: "The importance of birds and the lacustrine ecosystem in Lake Texcoco. What do they think?” by Patricia Escalante
Oct 24, 6pm: Conversations with Atenco’s Front of Peoples in Defense of the Land (FPDT)
Social ecology
Oct 27, 10am: Experimentation workshop: reconfiguring the ancient Valley of Mexico, with Pequeños Misterios and Carlos Gamboa
Nov 8, 6pm: " Material culture from an Anthropological and other perspectives" with Anne Johnson
Nov 15, 6pm: Screening of "The water of the Earth and Sky in the Acolhuacan Septentrional" and "The Absent Hills” with Jorge Martínez, Manuel Moreno and David Robichaux
Political ecology
Nov 29, 6pm: Conversations about the politics of artistic research with David Gutiérrez and Adriana Salazar
December 6, 6pm: Conversations with Julieta Lamberti of the Project Organization, Development, Education and Research (PODER)