“These SD cards with 2,5 GB of audio-visual material were made in a very limited edition of 25, each with unique artwork made in collaboration with the Tijuana-born multimedia artist Luis Alonso Sánchez but related in a way you can see here. Next to 2 powerful technoid tracks (Represión and ECOCIDIO feat. VRTX) the cards contain field recordings (.wav), photographs (.jpg) and videos (.mpg) from two protest manifestations. The first is the “Battle of San Lazaro” in December 2012. People opposing the incoming president Enrique Peña Nieto, took to the streets in Mexico City to express their resistance to the return of the Institutional Revolutionary Party of Mexico, the same political party that was in power when the Zapatistas emerged from the jungle in 1994. The second was in September 2016, when protestors called for the resignation of the same president after he met with then Presidential Candidate Donald Trump.

With this material Horta Valenzuela not only opens up to you the perspective from inside critical and activist communities in Mexico, but also impresses with two wonderful compositions incorporating sounds from these historical events…” 

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