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Who Can Erase The Traces?

Regina José Galindo

Regina José Galindo

Visual Artist, Poet and Performer (Guatemala) 
Copyright: Victor Pérez
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Guatemala City, Guatemala

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Who Can Erase The Traces? is a long walk from Guatemala’s Constitutional Court to the National Palace, leaving footsteps in human blood to honor armed conflict victims and protest Efraín Ríos Montt’s presidential candidacy.

Who Can Erase The Traces? is a long walk from the Constitutional Court to the National Palace of Guatemala: leaving a trail of footsteps made with human blood. I memory of the victims of armed conflict in Guatemala and in rejection of the presidential candidacy of the military, genocidal and former coup supporter Efrain Rios Montt.

Credits

Photography: Victor Pérez

Vídeo: Damilo Montenegro

APA style reference

Galindo, R. (2003). Who Can Erase The Traces?. walk · listen · create. https://walklistencreate.org/walkingpiece/who-can-erase-the-traces/
Submitted by: Dani Spadotto

driftsinging

Drawing with (vocal) sound in response to place while passing through place. Driftsinging borrows from the Situationist Drift, and Baudelaire’s flâneur. Driftsinging also relates to the process of ‘sounding,’ the sonic measuring of distance and depth that locates position in place and ‘echo location’, the examination of place through sonic reflection and refraction, resonance and echo.

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