Femicide Machine and The Iguana 43
‘Borderization’, a Mexico where, ‘ … everything is becoming a border, a twilight zone in which anything can happen. A border that, in spite of the best efforts of civil society and institutions to find a dignified and viable means of coexistence, spreads like a scourge of crime, impunity, the loss of respect for life, the disappearance of persons as an industry of extermination… Empires — like nation-states — become decadent when they become unable to guarantee the integrity of their sovereignty and their territory. In recent years — due to ancestral inequality, the disaster of the globalised economy, the fall of the authoritarian presidency, the slow institution of a new political system of the drug trafficking boom, police and judicial corruption and the migration of workers — Mexico’s borders have suffered from a series of perverse effects that tie together a multi-faceted erosion of everything from the national contract to public security.’
Richard Marshall on Sergio González RodrÃguez‘s The Iguala 43 and The Femicide Machine.
Transcendentally Bad
I want to split focus. I want to do something badly. I want to do something badly and well at the same time. I want to transcend spectrums of judgement by doing something blissfully awful, transcendentally bad. I want to associate and read the collage of truth in a coffee soaked newspaper. I don’t want people to like it. I don’t care if they like it. Maybe I do if I want them not to like it. It’s not always about liking.
Starting a new interview series, States of Anxiety, Jana Astanov interviews Alex Romania.