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kika.echeverria@gmail.com
Composed by Alejandra Ríos Ruiz
Curated by Kika Echeverría
No se va a caer, lo vamos a tirar is a spatial sound piece composed by Alejandra Ríos Ruiz. It deals with the protests that took place on 8 March 2024 in CDMX and the metal wall that was built around the protesters. From there, the artist has created a dreamy soundscape that engages with feminist struggles.
The piece was released on 10 December 2024 at MONOM, Berlin.
“(...) the listener helps to co-perform the piece, disrupting the temporality and signature of the story itself. In other words, the narrative not only explodes, but leaves remaining traces to be uncovered and unfollowed; and these fragmentary traces speak in tongues, sounds, and bodily endurances.”
Sandra Ruiz & Hypatia Vourlomis,
Formless Formation. Vignettes for the End of this World
A metal wall has been built to contain a slippery, noisy tide. Body against body, woman to woman, clamouring for justice. The tide rises, spilling over imposed boundaries. The barrier falters: it is not longer strong enough. This furious, fed-up tide demands to be heard.
We turnit on its head. We strike it; we interrogate the barrier imposed upon us. We give it sound, subverting its repressive intent. We make it resonate. We stand firm before it, resisting.
The tide transforms into a chorus, a collective resonance taking shape. Our voices become suspended particles in the air, leaving fragmentary traces of grief and rage. Together, we sing in a polyrhyhmic melody, weaving s hared fabric that endures. Though our narratives are diverse, they root themselves in a common ground. Our voices and bodies join to compose one of many songs of the oppressed. As an amorphous social body whose tremors reverberate beyond the boundaries imposed on us, we are sitll noise to traditional structures. Wrapped in anger, aching to be expressed, we embra this formless liminal space.
Amid the many struggles, there lies an untamed creative potential, eager to claim its place in the sonid sprectrum, leaving echoes of its existence. Resonating in our hearts, it builds belonging. We hold each other against the unbalanced power structures, protesting in ways that intrude upon daily life and public discourses, challenging authority. It bursts beyond, subverting the roles imposed upon us and our bodies’ performativity. We reclaim public spaces proving the possibility of becoming other realities. We make the public space one where magic exists.
In Mexico, state agents built a wall in El Zócalo to stifle demonstrations on 8 March 2024, International Women’s Day. In trying to contain us, they unknowingly made us stronger.
Kika Echeverría