La utopía de la mariposa / TIERRA

Lukas Avendaño

Avendaño’s career has been described in many ways: artivism, militant disobedience, sexual dissidence, rurality, Indianness, ugliness, illiteracy, street theater, happening, sketch, monologue, lectern theater, witticisms, improvisations, obscenities, vulgarities, lewdness, bad taste, pornography, Art Nako, and/or forced disappearance. For him, these ways of being labeled only reveal a hegemonic narrative: patriarchal, heterosexual, Christian, which is constructed from what Avendaño calls “the thesis with a flaw of origin,” hence he inhabits his very existence as a story of the collateral damage of this “flaw of origin.”

Miguel J. Crespo

Journalist and photographer. He studied photography at the FARO de Oriente and is a graduate of the Carlos Septién García School of Journalism. He has published in media such as Aristegui Noticias, Yaconic, Animal Político, and Fusión. He won first place of the German Journalism Prize Walter Reuters 2018 for the documentary “Dicen de mí: la historia del Mijis”, published in Fusión.

Fana Adjani

She directed the short film TIERRA, which has been selected for various film festivals such as the Fairy Tales Queer Film Festival in Calgary, Canada, where it won the Programmer’s Choice Award for Best Short Film, also at Guanajuato International Film Festival 2022, MICGénero 2022, and most recently at the Seattle Queer Film Festival and the prestigious Outfest Fusion QTBIPOC Film Festival 2023 in Los Angeles, California, also in Los Angeles, the short film was featured in an exclusive screening for the GAVLAK Gallery of Contemporary Art; and in 2023 TIERRA was included in the film archive of the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA, for preservation. Rolling Stone magazine (USA) commented that TIERRA was “wonderfully directed.”

She has had exhibitions as an artist in museums such as the Museo Universitario del Chopo (UNAM) where she served as the general coordinator of the TIERRA Cycle in 2022, and presented her work/installation SE ENCUENTRAN, SE ACOMPAÑAN with the support of the Nelson Mandela Department and the Botanical Garden of the Biology Institute of UNAM. Her work has also been featured in the MUAC (University Museum of Contemporary Art-UNAM) and in spaces such as the National Palace of Fine Arts. Her audiovisual work WHOLE BODY was presented at the Overkill Festival in the Netherlands and later a ForbesLife Exclusive. In 2018 she served as part of the Danza UNAM Advisory Council directed by Evoé Sotelo.