{"id":68,"date":"2019-08-15T21:48:23","date_gmt":"2019-08-15T19:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2019-12-13T12:06:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-13T11:06:48","slug":"maria-rosa-palacioss-dangerous-journey-and-the-railway-workers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/maria-rosa-palacioss-dangerous-journey-and-the-railway-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mar\u00eda Rosa Palacios\u2019s Dangerous Journey and The Railway Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><main class=\"tp_body fade-in main-cuerpo\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"container-img\">\n<div class=\"img_x50 salto_img\">\n<div class=\"imgx100\"><img class=\"lazyload lazy-image img_proyecto img_1\" data-sizes=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/08\/09karinaaguilera-300x200.jpg\" 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Ecuador<\/div>\n<p class=\"tp_descripcion pb-20\"><i>Mar\u00eda Rosa Palacios\u2019s Dangerous Journey<\/i> is a multimedia project that involves performance, video, and visual art. It establishes parallels between the journey that a black teenaged girl undertakes through the highlands of Ecuador and the journey made by indigenous and Jamaican workers who built the zigzagging tracks of the Trans-Andean Railway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tp_descripcion pb-20\">Mar\u00eda Rosa Palacios was my great-grandmother, an Afro-Ecuadorian descendant of enslaved Africans who, in 1905, at the age of fifteen, migrated from her native village in the Valle del Chota to the city of Guayaquil. She faced the considerable challenges of traveling a long way through a rugged landscape in order to go work for a wealthy family. More than a hundred years later, I collected all the information I could about her journey and her experiences, in order to recreate her difficult endeavor. This takes the form of a video that is a hybrid between documentary and fiction, involving performance and improvisation and featuring interviews conducted with historians and relatives, as well as research about means of transportation in the early twentieth century. In addition to being a tribute to Mar\u00eda Rosa, this project expresses concerns that arise when dealing with issues of race and social class.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tp_descripcion pb-20\"><i>The Railway Workers<\/i> series consists of photomontages based on the official history of the construction of Ecuador\u2019s railways from 1890 to 1908. The process begins with then-president Eloy Alfaro\u2019s visionary idea of connecting Ecuador\u2019s incredibly varied topography, creating a route between the country\u2019s coast and highlands to improve communications and trade between the two regions. At the end of the nineteenth century, Alfaro hired a team of American engineers to overcome the problems of building in mountainous areas, such as the one known as the Nariz del diablo (Devil\u2019s Nose). The railway was built by a workforce of indigenous people and Jamaican migrants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tp_descripcion pb-20\">This project links official history \u2015represented in archival images\u2015 to recent photographs of the cordillera, where workers seem to have been sculpted into the landscape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tp_descripcion pb-30\">This is a first approach leading to a series of projects focusing on the figure of Mar\u00eda Rosa. In them, I hope to examine more closely the cultural transformations of the period and the implications of the Liberal Revolution of 1895, as well as the arrival of modernity and the new relationships it proposed, in contrast with the intertwined aspirations and frustrations exemplified by people\u2019s private lives at the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tp_descripcion pb-80 derecha\">Karina Skvirsky<\/p>\n<div class=\"tp_menu titulo_descr pb-10\">KARINA AGUILERA SKVIRSKY<\/div>\n<div class=\"tp_body pb-30\">(b. 1969) Rhode Island, United States\/ Guayaquil, Ecuador, and New York, United States<\/div>\n<p class=\"tp_descripcion pb-80\">Through photography, video art, and performance, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky examines the way the image operates in art and the communications media, while at the same time exploring Latin American memory and culture, with a focus on the banal, everyday aspects of inhabited spaces. She received a grant from the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture in 2018 and a Fulbright-Garc\u00eda Robles Scholarship in 2015. Her work can be found in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City. Aguilera Skvirsky is represented by Ponce + Robles Gallery. She received a Creative Capital Award in 2019 for her project <i>How to build a wall and other ruins<\/i>. She is currently adjunct professor of art at Lafayette College in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":24,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-proyecto-en.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026,"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions\/1026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/africamericanos.vistprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}