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20 Episodes 2013 - 2013
Episode 1
Leonardo and Igor Nieto Joly tell their life stories through their art. Leonardo is composing a suite for zither - instrument he picked up in a boarding school in India - consisting of five movements where each represents a stage in a human life. Meanwhile, Igor photographs the essence of the places where they've been from India to the Mexican Caribbean where they currently reside.
Episode 2
By some calculations, glaciers in Mexico have only ten years of existence left. Tania Ximena Ruiz Santos climbs the Iztaccihuatl to measure and photograph the ice formations at its summit. She then reproduces them as faithfully as possible in ceramic. The idea is to make an installation - a kind of a mausoleum - of formations that have ceased to exist.
Episode 3
"Ciudad Neza" is one of Mexico City's most peculiar neighborhoods. That is where Fershow Escárcega is from and where most of his photo shoots take place.
Episode 4
Tania Bohórquez's father is also her mother's uncle. Incest has always been a part of her life and her art. Her most recent project "Genealogical glances" is a series of portraits of families that have incestuous blood ties.
Episode 5
Luis Enrique García Reyes' father was a truck driver until his death. Now Luis Enrique travels along photographing not only the profession, but the interaction amongst men as well.
Episode 6
Ivan Puig and Andrés Padilla Domene built the SEFT-1 to travel along the abandoned railroads of the country.
Episode 7
Through her photographs, Claudia Hans shows children's conceptions of death, God and family.
Episode 8
Nuria Montiel constructed a mobile printing press to record people's words during demonstrations. Now she is directing a play that evokes with shadows, the gestures of a revolution.
Episode 9
Samara Guzmán Fernández collects the official identifications of strangers. She then draws their portrait based on the photo that appears on the ID and sends it to the address there specified.
Episode 10
In northern Mexico violence has become all too common. José Jiménez Ortiz analyzes the effect of fear and the questions that arise after the death of a loved one due to organized crime.
Episode 11
Leika Mochán music interacts with its surroundings. She composes songs that use atmospheric sounds and she takes her music to the streets on her pimped bike.
Episode 12
Fabiola Torres-Alzaga's art challenges reality using optical illusions and the tricks of traditional magic.
Episode 13
Ruvalcaba & Partners is a company that buys ideas for art pieces. Its founder, Daniel Ruvalcaba, is currently working with housewives in order to form an art collection inspired on domestic work.
Episode 14
Esthel Vera Vogrig designed an interface that detects movement and assigns a note to each one. This way, by dancing one creates music - and with a choreography one composes a song-.
Episode 15
Marcos Castro does interventions in buildings about to be demolished. His work then becomes archaeological ruins.
Episode 16
Gabriel Briones designed a special kind of guitar with eleven strings in order to introduce this instrument in his salsa compositions. Now, he's composing the first ever opera in the salsa genre.
Episode 17
Richard Viqueira introduces elements of performance, action movies or video games in his plays.
Episode 18
Renato Garza Cervera's pieces touch sensitive subjects such as religion and politics. They do so with a sense of humor that doesn't undermine the seriousness of the message.
Episode 19
Angelina Suyul writes poetry, María Arias makes documentary films. The work of both artists serves as a glimpse of the tzotzil language and culture.
Episode 20
Diego Vázquez, choreographer, and Erick Meyenberg, multi-disciplinary artist, revise their projects in the meetings of the FONCA grant for young Mexican artists.