FIRST
MEETING OF THE PEOPLES OF COLLECTIVE AND COMMUNITY MURALISM IN HONDURAS "IDENTITY, STRUGGLE AND
DIVERSE COSMOVISIONS"
... Since earlier
times to the colonisation and Western Univision of European origins, in our
Abya Ayala (an indigenous and ancestral name that means "Land of Abundant
fruits", of the continent now known as America) there have been cultural,
political and spiritual exchanges and encounters between the diverse peoples of
our continent, where the various comprehensive worldviews of our peoples were
brought together. More than 500 years of colonization and ancestral resistance
ancestral continue.
At present throughout
Abya Ayala, there is an outbreak and spread of collective art, ancient integral
rituals that deepen and exalt our identities, emancipation, sovereignty and
spirituality, and that since recently have been integrated.
Honduras, bridge in
the heart of America, a country submerged, always on the upward spiral and
alienating systematic violence, which currently occupies with alarming figures
first place as the most violent country in the world. From Honduras have
emerged in recent years from so much blood, violence, repression, predation and
exclusion ... artistic seeds that teem all around the country and that make
necessary and urgent the systematising, organising and integration of these
collective artistic demonstrations, within our strategies of resistance and
emancipation. Creating spaces of support and artistic struggle in zones that
are yet more serious and vulnerable to land conflicts, to the violation of
human rights, and to predation. To have more senses and sensibilities that
perceive, denounce, make visible and fight against impunity, violence,
repression and terrorism promoted by the state and media power groups. Although
all Honduras is kidnapped and immersed
in this historic pseudoreality of colonisation, we are always with soul, spirit
and reason, resisting since our ancestors, because our memory is organic and
forever present.
The proposal will be
held crosswise in Honduras, beginning near the Gulf of Fonseca and ending on
the Atlantic coast, The purpose of our proposal is: Realise the itinerant
“Primer Encuentro Campamento de Muralismo y Arte Colectivo” - the “First
Meeting Camp of Collective Muralism and
Arts”, to be held for 50 days, from April 9th to May 27th,
2016, in 6 areas of Honduras systematically, seven days in each zone, starting
in Pespire, Choluteca; Cantarranas, Francisco Morazan.; Tegucigalpa, Francisco
Morazán; San Marcos de Santa Barbara; Rio Blanco, COPINH, Intibucá; and Sambo
Creak, Garifuna community, La Ceiba. These are some areas recovered or in
struggle that are being constantly threatened by conflicts of invasion,
usurpation and evictions promoted by national landlords and foreign corporations,
in collusion with the entire political, military, judiciary and media apparatus
of the Honduran state. This is aggravated through the installation that
promotes the ZEDEs, better known as "Model Cities", large scale
industrial sites, with their own financial rules and policies, and consortia
that want to continue destroying our Mother Earth, privatizing rivers, building
dams on sacred sites for our ancestral peoples, displacing indigenous
communities, destroying our ecosystem poisoned with deadly chemicals to develop
its criminal mining in our soils,. They violate and injure human rights,
sovereignty and the environment, and in other communities, with a historical
and strategic significance, for our artistic awareness raising work.
Invited national and
international artists, will be able to
come when they have the possibility, either to just one site or to all,
according to their availability, as it is clear that the conditions in each
area will be different, of which we will inform them a month before the
meeting. Each Muralist will join the collective community that is organized
once the event has started in each space.
GENERAL OBJECTIVE
Create art spaces in
Honduras of expression, identity, consciousness, collective and community work,
among the various peoples, through the realisation of the “Primer Encuentro de
los Pueblos de Muralismo Colectivo y Comunitario en Honduras” - the “First
Meeting of the People of Collective and Community Muralism in Honduras”.
SPECIFIC OBJECTIVES
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Realise a convocation and
invitation to diverse people, artists, muralists, collectives and interested
people, in particular from Latin America and from other parts of the world, to
participate in the FIRST MEETING OF THE PEOPLE OF COLLECTIVE AND COMMUNITY
MURALISM IN HONDURAS, which reflects our diverse identities and integrates in
voices of diverse colours our identity and ancestral resistance struggles for
emancipation.
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Develop
during the months of April and May 2016, in six communities in Honduras, with
different issues in one single context, from the south to the north of the
country, divided into seven days, five collective community murals in each
community, measuring from 5 x 2 meters at least to 10 x 4 meters at most, in
acrylic and with collective and community processes.
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Share and
integrate our diverse forms and methods of struggle as native peoples in
resistance, through collective and community art. In favour of our different
cosmovisions, identity, integral struggles and against the systematic attacks
on our communities and the land, by colonial, criminal and media groups.
CONDITIONS AND
METHODOLOGY
·
To create
a general steering group, with representatives from all the communities
involved and international partners. Who
will be corresonded with regarding the management and financing of materials
and transport internal in Honduras. November 2015
·
Some
members of the coordinating team will be responsible in their communities, who
will organise the groups of facilitators in each community, manage with the
general population, community institutions, food, lodging, internal transport,
walls, and the conditions required for the event. November-December 2015
·
The
coordination meetings will be conducted through the network or in person,
depending on the availability of the coordinators members. January 2016
·
Creation
of groups of facilitators in each community to manage the walls, creating the
conditions for the development of the murals. Lodging, meals and internal
transportation in the community as well as promotion in communities. January
2016
·
Realisation
of the proposal and scheduling/ calendar creation for the event. Enero 2016
·
Making,
promotion and invitation to the event, through all the available means of
promotion, to the participating artists, who will manage the return ticket from their country to Honduras and vice
versa. January 2016
·
The work
realised with the invited artists integrated in the different communities.
April-May 2016
·
The funds
that will be generated and are required for the event, we will administer
through a solidarity organisation, that could be COPINH, OFRANEH, COFADEH, or
any available organisation. January-May 2016
·
The
Individual directly responsible for the project will be the Muralist Javier
Edgardo Espinal Aguilar. All the process of execution of the project will be
done collectively, with the communities and artists – (including with Javier
Espinal as artist).
·
A general
inauguration event will be realised, and another of closing of the event, both
at general level for the event, and
specifically in each community, with invited popular artists. April-May 2016
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All the
process of each mural, will be realised in a collective way, integrating one or
several artists with the participating groups from the communities.
·
The murals
will be created in acryllic, in walls of prepared spaces, that will measure
from 10 x 2 metres to 5 x 2 metres.
·
The themes
will be picked in a collective manner in each community, according to the theme
of the Muralist Encounter, as much as the complete realisation of the process.
·
The
process will last 7 days in each community, allowing 3 days between each
community, for the transfer and conditioning of the participating team.
·
The social
and environmental impact will be perceived and measured permanently, as the
murals will stay publically visible in strategic places in the communities and
there will be photographic and video monitoring/ following of the community
participation process.
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Images of
the finished wall and collective development processes will be used to serve
various forms of broadcasting through printed and visual campaigns, to support
the communities struggles, to raise awareness of different sectors, villages
and cities at the national and International level.
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A blog
will be created with all the previous information (the call out, registration,
logistics, etc.) during and after the meeting.
