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OAXACA: AQUÍ NO PASA NADA/ OAXACA: NOTHING IS GOING ON HERE
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If you haven't had the occasion to see this show yet, do your best to make it before it closes. The ongoing video documenting the recent history and suppression of the popular uprising in Oaxaca is remarkable, and should be seen by all.
Exhibition Dates: October 13 - November 3, 2007
WHERE: Galeria de la Raza|Studio 24 2857 24th St. @ Bryant
Gallery Hours: Wed. - Sat. 12 - 6 p.m
A group of contemporary Oaxacan artists just opened the show “Nothing is going on here!” at Galeria de la Raza. The show includes photography, video and audio art, painting, and a digital mural and is truly fantastico. As you know, Oaxaca has been the political stage of a major uprising by the teacher’s union, which the government has systematically repressed since July 2006. We hope you can be with us at Galeria to honor the incredible work that oaxacan artists are creating in multiple media as a response to the crisis. We are enclosing information about the final event, a talk with the artists taking place this upcoming wednesday(below).
Saludos, Gómez-Peña and Carolina Ponce de Leon.
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OAXACA: AQUÍ NO PASA NADA/[OAXACA: NOTHING IS GOING ON HERE]
Contemporary artists living and working in Oaxaca respond to the social-political conflict that erupted in Oaxaca in June 2006.
WHAT: OAXACA: AQUÍ NO PASA NADA is an exhibition and public billboard that responds to the social-political conflict that erupted in Oaxaca between 2006 and 2007, featuring photography, visual art, videos, and a sound installation by artists living and working in Oaxaca, Mexico.
OAXACA: AQUÍ NO PASA NADA/
I checked out this amazing exhibit today. I only had about 20 minutes but I stood there watching videos for 2 hours anyway. It just so happens that I was in Oaxaca in 2006 while the teachers’ strike was going on. I flew home just a couple of days before the army came in with their helicopters, guns, tear gas and grenades…
This exhibit is a rare opportunity to hear the story from the very voices the government tried to silence. It’s an inspiration.
A new documentary about the uprising, “Un Poquito de Tanta Verdad” (A Little Bit of So Much Truth), is showing at La Pena Cultural Center: 3105 Shattuck Ave., Berkeley on Nov. 1st at 7pm
[Posted by Hollie Hardy]