Walk through Tlatelolco
Guide: Crater Invertido
June 16, 2017
“We will walk to scrutinize the different layers of the city, we will arrive as far as our historical memory gives us the opportunity to observe. We will cross Colonia Santa María la Ribera, like a snake that glides over the remaining ruins of a series of crashes: an earthquake opened the way. We will tread ancient stones and modern stones and a modern tunnel will join for a certain time two spaces now dislocated. Suddenly, the fight for decent housing is intertwined with an Olmec head inside a door held in the illusion of almost invisible grutescos. We will establish an oral route from the Ribera de San Cosme to Tlatelolco, crossing Nonoalco as an anachronistic passage of a modernity surpassed by its fastest double: the neoliberal. Inside the tunnel, cavity of memory, we will walk on a skin of disjointed information going through all the cracks and fissures that the real city is leaving in its path. As a guide we will use publications that will be spinning the stories and as a counterpoint we will address the Nazi History in Mexico What is the Nazi history of Mexico? “
Cráter Invertido
ABOUT THE RAMBLE INTERLUDES. The Ramble Interludes cycle proposes a series of walks; each one will depart from a space that have a special connection with art and the city and will focus on a specific urban context, a certain neighborhood. Representatives of ten different spaces will guide subjective visits to the urban surroundings the building belongs to; they will point out spontaneous situations that have sparked their interest or anonymous architectural landmarks. This series of encounters thus sets out to investigate the relation between the architecture of the city and its users through case studies where different communities and collectives are connected with their districts thanks to cultural programmes.
