THE SOUNDS THAT WE ARE MISSING. JUNE 6th 1930(UN)SPOKEN TERRITORIES
(Un)Spoken Territories (01): Introductions and Ulises Matamoros
2024
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Performance
Ulises Matamoros Ascención.
Baltic, Centre for Contemporary Art
Newcastle, England.
“They came to inform my grandmother that her brother was dead, he was lying there against that wall (…) the house was burned down—the house where they used to rehearse music—, in that house is where they made their agreements. They say the music was so that those in power wouldn’t hear, so they wouldn’t hear what they were talking about, so that the music would cover their voices. But the others found out—Los Ortega—and they brought the Federation (the army), that’s why there were deaths, that’s why they burned down the committee... That’s where my uncle died.”
Natalia Colmena Reyes
THE SOUNDS THAT WE ARE MISSING. JUNE 6, 1932 is a sound session that, through various testimonies, recovers and recounts the events that occurred on 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 killed its members. This piece focuses on the musicality of the Ngiba language, on its tonal nature, but also on brass band music as a strategy of resistance and secret communication.
"THE SOUNDS THAT WE ARE MISSING. JUNE 6, 1932" was created specifically for the public program titled Stepping Softly on the Earth (Un)Spoken Territories, curated by Eva Posas. This public program opened on December 8, 2023, at Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, England.
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(Un)Spoken Territories (01): Introductions and Ulises Matamoros
Archive Shelf Location7A2 (2023M)
Publication Date08/12/2023
Introductions from Irene Aristizabal and Eva Posas
Ulises Matamoros: 'The Sounds That We Are Missing. June 6, 1932'
Followed by a presentation and Q&A
(Un)Spoken Territories is a two-day event of conversations, film screenings, listening sessions, workshops, and performance to consider connections between land, territory and language with artists, activists and filmmakers from Mexico, Peru, Syria and Morocco. The event is curated by Eva Posas and it is part of the public programme for the group exhibition Stepping Softly on the Earth.
Stepping Softly on the Earth is a research-led exhibition bringing together the work of 20, mostly non-Western and Indigenous, artists. The exhibition invites you to consider human’s relationship to land and territory from a decolonial and anti-colonial perspective.
Ulises Matamoros Ascención is an artist, professor, and independent curator. Matamoros is the creator and coordinator of the project Chasen Thajni: the house of all, a community space of the Ngiba culture, in Puebla, Mexico. He was a founder member of La Pajarera, a space for experimentation, discussion, and contemporary art production (2012–13) and a member of the Italo-Mexican collective Método Salgari (2013–17). In 2023, he was selected for the Program for the Promotion of Cultural Projects and Co-investments from the National Fund for Culture and Arts, Mexico. He was awarded numerous prizes and has participated in over 60 exhibitions in Mexico, Latin America, the US, and Europe.
