Ariel Arango PradaLaura Langa Martínez

BLOOD AND EARTH, Indigenous Resistance in the North of Cauca

Ariel Arango Prada, Laura Langa Martínez

BLOOD AND EARTH, Indigenous Resistance in the North of Cauca

Date

2024, 2025

Edition Size

10

Media

Embroidery, Film, Inkjet, Letterpress, Monotype, Offset print, Photography

Binding

Hand-sewn

Dimensions

8 × 6 × 1.5 in

Location

Cauca, Colombia

$ 1,350.00

Unavailable


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Brown University, John Hay Library

Hessel Museum of Art

Lehman College

Swarthmore College

This box-book-film portrays the resistance of the Nasa indigenous people of Northern Cauca in Colombia during the process of the “Liberation of Mother Earth”, a process of recovery of ancestral territories that are in the hands of sugar mills and major ethanol producers in Latin America. It also shows the struggle of the Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca, a pioneer in Latin America as an indigenous organizational process, its process of autonomy and the defense of the special indigenous jurisdiction, social and community mobilization, as well as the conservation of various manifestations of their ancestral culture. A document of memory and a reflection on state violence against the indigenous peoples of Colombia during the peace process with the FARC guerrillas, signed in 2016.

Inside there are: the 43 minute documentary in HD on usb flash drive held with an 8mm bullet and a QR link for online viewing, a book with the film script, another book about the production process of the documentary and the social life it has had, another book about the historical context of the process of “the liberation of mother earth”, 12 photographs on postcard size, an artistic poster, the posters of the film, all in English and with educational license.

The handmade box is printed on rustic fabric with coca leaf and mango monotypes and closes with a coconut fiber button. Paper ecological made of sugar cane, corn and cocoa fiber, rustic “mother jungle” fabric, Ilford photographic paper.