The Sounds that we are missing. June 6, 1932. Stepping Softly on the Earth. (Un)Spoken Territories. 1.ª ed. Newcastle: Ediciones Chasen Thajni y BALTIC Centre For Contemporary Art

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2023

 

Print edition

 

Project supported by: MeetFactory Prague, MUAC-UNAM Artistic Projects Support Fund, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, and the Honorable Municipality of Santa Inés Ahuatempan.

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• Booklet

 

Santa Inés Ahuatempan, Puebla, Mexico
Prague, Czech Republic
Newcastle, England

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Ulises Matamoros Ascención
Authorship and design

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Lenka Holíková
Editorial supervision

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Chasen Thajni Editions
First edition, 100 copies

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“THE SOUNDS THAT WE ARE MISSING. JUNE 6, 1932” is a booklet created specifically to accompany the sound and performance piece “Los sonidos que nos faltan. 6 de junio de 1932”.

Through various testimonies, images, and documents, it recounts and reconstructs the events of June 6, 1932, in the neighborhood of San Antonio Tierra Colorada (Santa Inés Ahuatempan, Mexico), when a group of soldiers attacked the Ngiba committee and murdered its members. The texts in the booklet alternate between English and Ngiba, as a strategy of resistance and secret communication.

“THE SOUNDS THAT WE ARE MISSING. JUNE 6, 1932” was created specifically for the public program Stepping Softly on the Earth (Un)Spoken Territories, curated by Eva Posas. The program opened on December 8, 2023, at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, England.