[spectre] New podcast: artist, curator and researcher Sofía Olascoaga gives a critical overview of the activist history of Cuernavaca, from the 50s to the 80s

[Radio Web MACBA]

New podcast: artist, curator and researcher Sofía Olascoaga
<https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sofia-olascoaga-main/capsula> gives an
overview of the activist history of Cuernavaca, a small city, around 80km
south of Mexico City, which from the 1950s to the 1980s attracted several
generations of intellectuals and activists, and reflects on how community
and self-managed spaces can drive social change, while also looking at the
processes of cultural and institutional colonisation by the West in Latin
America.

Link: https://rwm.macba.cat/en/sonia/sofia-olascoaga-main/capsula



*This podcast is part of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative
Europe programme of the European Union.Library music produced by Roc
Jiménez de Cisneros and Stephen Sharp at Ina/GRM (Paris). Interview by Anna
Ramos. Script by Loli Acebal. Produced by Violeta Ospina.*

Cuernavaca is a small city with a temperate climate and exceptional natural
beauty, around 80km south of Mexico City. From the 1950s to the 1980s, it
attracted several generations of intellectuals and activists, becoming a
testing ground for social initiatives that explored new ways of living and
learning.

In 1967, with the support of the bishop Sergio Méndez Arceo, Ivan Illich
and Valentina Borremans founded the Centro Intercultural de Documentación
(CIDOC), an archive and hub for documenting and promoting social change in
Latin America. A little earlier, the Benedictine monk Gregorio Lemercier,
encouraged by Erich Fromm, had started a process of group psychoanalysis at
the Santa María de la Resurrección Monastery, which led to the founding of
the Emaús Psychoanalytic Centre in 1956. And in 1969, the journalist Betsie
Hollants left CIDOC and set up the CIDHAL to study the situation of women
in Latin America.

Sofía Olascoaga (b. 1980, Mexico City) is an artist, curator and
researcher. Growing up in a community founded by her parents and other
families in Cuernavaca has marked her work, leading her to move in the
intersections of contemporary art, education, research, and the creation of
spaces for collective action. Among other projects, in 2011, Sofía
Olascoaga embarked on "Between Utopia and Failure. An affective genealogy",
a collective research process that looks back at this recent history of
Cuernavaca, allowing her to explore how these practices of communal living
resonate in the present and also to understand the experience of her own
childhood.

In this podcast, Sofía Olascoaga gives an overview of the activist history
of Cuernavaca and reflects on how community and self-managed spaces can
drive social change, while also looking at the processes of cultural and
institutional colonisation by the West in Latin America. Olascoaga also
brings to light the historical silencing of the voices of women and
indigenous communities under these kinds of processes.

*Timeline*
*00:00* Personal exploration about growing up in Cuernavaca
*07:17* Some notes on Cuernavaca and its emancipatory initiatives
*12:03* Ivan Illich
*15:53* Western infrastructural colonization in Latin America: catholic
church, schools, hospitals, urbanization
*17:26* CIDOC: an open space for discussion, an intercultural archive,
documenting social changes and alternatives in education
*20:13* Sergio Méndez Arceo, Gregorio Lemercier, Fray Gabriel Chávez de la
Mora, Erich Fromm and the psychoanalytic revolution at the Benedictine
Monastery of Santa María de la Resurrección
*24:51* CIDAL. Betsie Hollands. A feminist study center
*26:48* Dissolution of CIDOC, 1976
*29:39* Illich, Deschooling Society
*34:35* Illich, Medical Nemesis, transports, acceleration, speed, progress
and Modernity.
*38:10* Western colonization: an epistemicide
*40:16* Illich, Tools for Conviviality. Convivial techniques.
*42:09* Illich, learning webs
*45:23* La Comunidad, Cuernavaca

*E/N/J/O/Y*
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