Bruh what? This is really what you are gonna highlight in Mexico City? Didn't even mention once that axolotls are in danger of extinction or that their natural habitat was decimated by colonialism. Yeah idk yt lady talking about emboding axolotes who are also in Aztec mythology the god Xolotl (also not mentioned) is not sitting right with me.
Haha I fucking love your comment. I was watching this last night and your comment kept me up thinking till morning. It’s so interesting. This concept of cultural “colonization”. Like I rmbr this song I heard by Bo burnham called “ White woman’s instagram”. The appreciation and empathy and embodiment of a culture totem is such a huge flattery but also it’s like picking up seashells on holiday in Bali or collecting black sands from Hawaii. The appreciation is flattering but also, the thought that they never truly understood the gestalt. It’s a weird thing about diaspora culture, globalization, colonization and finally nationalism vs patriotism. One thing I look up with great interest is the concept of meaning making about death in various cultures. How even though death is universal, each culture’s philosophy is so different. Ngl I feel your sense of perversion seeing an “edgy spiritual white woman” “vibing” with the symbolism and concept of an axolotl. But just like one picks up seashells and finds new meaning uncovering half and partial remains of history, like archaeological anthropologists we try our best to meaning make from the little we stumble upon and grow it no? Even if it becomes a meaning that does not honor the essence of what we know, these “aliens” have somehow piled that Frankensteined amalgamation of their own identity, “white woman diaspora” onto the grave of your ancestry. I used the word grave because, what is actually meaningful about the history of something if it doesn’t change, it has died. If we only honor the sanctity of dead honor and knowledge, without growing on it, then, that’s a grave no? Then all of humanity’s history will just be a tombstone because we don’t want to desecrate the sanctity and dignity of the old. So yes the bastardization of your culture and history feels very appropriated by an icky liberal kinda vibes. But also, maybe let’s give some grace to the tourist picking up seashells by a beach or that white girl who discovered yoga and dream catchers. Cuz in a fucked up way, as you put garlands to honor your ancestors, in her white woman way, she’s printed their faces onto a mug with the words “ remember them” and proceeds to sell them for $19.90 after shipping.
Tantas fallas con este proyecto audiovisual.¿Por qué siempre aferrarse a que si se va a comunicar de algún territorio, lengua originaria, comunidad, especie endémica, géneros, espiritualidad, invitan a una persona, artiste que es extranjerx? Existen muchxs artistas de comunidades originarias, nacidxs en México que son del territorio y con mayor pigmentación en la piel, porque eso es DIVERSIDAD dentro del país. Lo que veo y siento que ha tocado este proyecto son las fibras lesionadas del colonialismo que vivimos, pero que ya nos cansamos de tolerarlo y expresamos nuestras narrativas de persistencia al respeto hacia nuestras raíces diversas en México 🇲🇽🍄
This comes across as an extreme case of self-absorbed navel-gazing.
Bruh what? This is really what you are gonna highlight in Mexico City? Didn't even mention once that axolotls are in danger of extinction or that their natural habitat was decimated by colonialism. Yeah idk yt lady talking about emboding axolotes who are also in Aztec mythology the god Xolotl (also not mentioned) is not sitting right with me.
Haha I fucking love your comment. I was watching this last night and your comment kept me up thinking till morning. It’s so interesting. This concept of cultural “colonization”. Like I rmbr this song I heard by Bo burnham called “ White woman’s instagram”. The appreciation and empathy and embodiment of a culture totem is such a huge flattery but also it’s like picking up seashells on holiday in Bali or collecting black sands from Hawaii. The appreciation is flattering but also, the thought that they never truly understood the gestalt. It’s a weird thing about diaspora culture, globalization, colonization and finally nationalism vs patriotism. One thing I look up with great interest is the concept of meaning making about death in various cultures. How even though death is universal, each culture’s philosophy is so different. Ngl I feel your sense of perversion seeing an “edgy spiritual white woman” “vibing” with the symbolism and concept of an axolotl. But just like one picks up seashells and finds new meaning uncovering half and partial remains of history, like archaeological anthropologists we try our best to meaning make from the little we stumble upon and grow it no? Even if it becomes a meaning that does not honor the essence of what we know, these “aliens” have somehow piled that Frankensteined amalgamation of their own identity, “white woman diaspora” onto the grave of your ancestry. I used the word grave because, what is actually meaningful about the history of something if it doesn’t change, it has died. If we only honor the sanctity of dead honor and knowledge, without growing on it, then, that’s a grave no? Then all of humanity’s history will just be a tombstone because we don’t want to desecrate the sanctity and dignity of the old. So yes the bastardization of your culture and history feels very appropriated by an icky liberal kinda vibes. But also, maybe let’s give some grace to the tourist picking up seashells by a beach or that white girl who discovered yoga and dream catchers. Cuz in a fucked up way, as you put garlands to honor your ancestors, in her white woman way, she’s printed their faces onto a mug with the words “ remember them” and proceeds to sell them for $19.90 after shipping.
Tantas fallas con este proyecto audiovisual.¿Por qué siempre aferrarse a que si se va a comunicar de algún territorio, lengua originaria, comunidad, especie endémica, géneros, espiritualidad, invitan a una persona, artiste que es extranjerx?
Existen muchxs artistas de comunidades originarias, nacidxs en México que son del territorio y con mayor pigmentación en la piel, porque eso es DIVERSIDAD dentro del país.
Lo que veo y siento que ha tocado este proyecto son las fibras lesionadas del colonialismo que vivimos, pero que ya nos cansamos de tolerarlo y expresamos nuestras narrativas de persistencia al respeto hacia nuestras raíces diversas en México 🇲🇽🍄
No sorprende pero si horroriza el nivel de extractivismo de esto.
coo coo in the head
Wut
♥♥♥ Lisette
What is she even saying? #nothingness
Una falta de respeto y completa apropiación de nuestra cultura. COLONIALISMO PURO.
Najatl 🗣
This Is cultural colonialism.
si pero que esta pasando aqui?! wack
Can you explain why ?