Sowing Moisture

Sowing Moisture arises from a collaboration between Ruta del Castor, Carolina Caycedo, organizations, educational institutions, community members of Xochimilco, artists, activists, farmers and students in order to collectively reflect upon the relationship that we have with water as a binding body that weaves cultures and ecosystems.

As part of the project Sowing Moisture, an audiovisual screening open to the public will be presented at the Museo Tamayo auditorium. It will be followed by a conversation between researcher Deborah Martin and activist Sofía Enciso from the Un Salto de Vida collective about the role of cinema and visual culture within the processes of territorial defense and possible imaginary scenarios. The documentary Resurrección by Eugenio Polgovsky places us in what was once the Mexican Niagara, while the short film Nueva Argirópolis by Lucrecia Martel dismantles the historical constructions of national identity and the formation of possible territories.

Thanks to the support of The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, East Los Angeles College, Vincent Price Art Museum, Museo Tamayo, Tecnológico de Monterrey,Tequila 1800, Rosadito, Proyectos Publicos and Goldsmiths University of London. Sowing Moisture is organized in association with Situamos la vida en el centro, an exhibition, publication, and educational platform focused on art and environmental justice. The project is presented as part of PST ART: Art and Science Collide, an initiative of the Getty.

— Ruta del Castor

Participants: Adriana Cadena, Alejandra Venegas, Alessandro Valeri, Ana Claudia Oviedo Valdivia, Anaid Garcia, Andrea De la Torre, Armando Tovar Garza, Biól. Artuto Vergara, Carolina Caycedo, Cuemanco Biological and Aquaculture Research Center, Kitchen Colaboratory, Almarcigo Collective, Amasijo Collective, Deborah Martin, Diana Chagala Paz, Diana Guzmán García, Dr. José Antonio Ocampo Cervantes, East Los Angeles College, Enrique Mendoza, Erandi Jiménez Jacques, Esteban Silva, Fernanda Angulo, Florencia Guillen, Gobbi Lynn, Humedalia, Jehan Roberson, Jimmy Saldivar, Jonathan Frankel, Joseph Valencia, Juan Manuel Jordán Calderón, Julia Ponce de León, Keny García Cabrera, Laura Camila Rojas Claros, Lupita Hernández Hernández, María Alejandra Rubiano Becerra, María Elena de la Torre Escoto, Mariana Martinez, María Tovar, Mariela Barcenas, Martina Manterola, Martín Cabrera Lechuga, Matthew Vera, Mauricio de la Puente, Mir Rodriguez Lombardo, Monserrat Macías, Mtro. Gilberto Binnqüist, Paula Daniela Rojas Claros, Ramiro Chaves, Ruta del Castor, Sari Denisse, Seres de Río, Sophie Seita, Sofía Casarin, Sofía Bastidas, Sofía Enciso, Steven Wong, Tecnológico de Monterrey, The Hildegard von Bingen Society, Tona Kinich, UAM Xochimilco, Un Salto de Vida, Victoria Perrie, Vincent Price Art Museum, Yajaira Vilchis-Alvarez, Yamir Guerra, Yara Ailine Hernández Rojas.