Requiem for a Lost Land / Requiem para una tierra perdida

The
bilingual title makes reference to the bi-national reality of the “war on
drugs.” Requiem… is an attempt, from the performance art space, to open
with a coroner’s knife the very same discourse of death broadcast by those in
power under the guise of “national security”. Inside its rotten entrails, we
re-discover the daily suffering of the common citizen, the one most affected by
a vicious and pathological decision of the state that has nothing to do with
his or her well-being, and much to do with some of the darker designs of power
that the country has seen in its history.

Concept / Performance: Violeta Luna; Original music: David Molina.

Organisation: City of Women; In collaboration with: Škuc Gallery.