Conjuros de agua
By: coordinado por : Adriana Salazar Vélez
Contributors: Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Pitzilein Books; Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Ciudad de México; Chicago, Ill
Language: spa
ISBN-13: 9786079860288
Subjects: Artists' books; Specimens; Water use; History; Water-supply
Description: Adriana Salazar Vélez coordinates a book that interrogates the origin of water, the care we give it, the waste, its scarcity, Through concepts such as civilization,  growth,  development,  modernization and other derivations, a flat city was forcefully fitted on a basin whose waters always converge in lakes. The lake waters were valued through a series of adjectives that were not their own: excessive, overflowing, residual, therefore, imposing ways of control over which in itself resisted to being controlled. "The lexical practices shaping water management in Mexico City seems like spells sticking like molecules, to capture and turn them into objects. We citizens of this metropolis see the liquid gush out of our faucets -sometimes scare, sometimes plentifully- but often ignore the paths and detours of the stream emerging from the pipe." --Conjuros del agua, Page 4.
Notes: "The texts included in this book were originally a series of conferences that took place in April 2019 at El Rule Technology Lab (Centro Cultural El Rule, Mexico City). The conferences were transcribed by Lina Monero, Leticia Cordero, and Carolina Silva. They were subsequently edited for publication. We thank the authors Genaro Amaro Altamirano, Mariana Balderas, Consuelo Bonfil, Marcelo Canteiro, Dean Chahim, Fernando Córdova, Ramón Domínguez, Oscar Escolero, Carlos Gamboa, David Gutiérrez, Diana Jiménez, Brenda Anayatzin Ortiz, Irene Pisanty, Ariadna Ramonetti, Sandra Rozenthal, and Carolina Lilibeth Silva. We thank the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts for its support in the project execution." --Slipcase.

Postcards and sheets inserted two in each book.

Issued in slipcase.

Cover title.

Includes bibliographical references.

In Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Conjuros de agua = Water spells / introducción y epílogo por Adriana Salazar Vélez; title: Historias del agua = Water histories; title: (Des)abastecimiento = Supply and scarcity; title: Defensa comunitaria del agua = A communal defense of water; title: Restauraciones ecosistémicas = Eco-systemic restorations; title: Drenajes, salidas e inundaciones = Sewage, outlets, and floods; title: Afectaciones en otras regiones = Efects in other regions.