Diana Soria Hernandez - Ashes and Seeds: a commemorative performance
Memory is dispute. It should be obvious once the fake news has become a thing. Truth, as a construction, is rarely on the side of the oppressed. And because of this, we resist. We fight for the truths we still remember, we pass them on and hold on to them dearly, fiercely. We engrave them on our memories.
Ashes and Seeds asks how a specific event has survived and changed in our memories, throughout 11 years of deceit. It asks for the specific memory of those who have experienced the event from far away, through their cellphones and social media.
The performance doesn't intend to provide new information, but rather to be a place for collective naming, threading and recalling accountability. What happens in one place is never an isolated event.
The Ashes and Seeds performance is a memorial of the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students in Iguala, Mexico, on its 11th anniversary.
Photo by Diana Soria Hernandez
