Diana Soria Hernandez - Ashes and Seeds: a commemorative performance
The Ashes and Seeds performance commemorates the disappearance of 43 Ayotzinapa students in Iguala, Mexico, on the 11th anniversary of the event.
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 the event has survived and changed in our memories over 11 years of betrayal. It interrogates the specific memories of those who experienced the event from afar, through their mobile phones 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.
Photo by Diana Soria Hernandez
