Ceremony, Vigil

¡LOS QUE MUEREN POR LA VIDA, NO PUEDEN LLAMARSE MUERTOS THOSE WHO DIE FOR LIFE, ARE NOT DEAD! is a vigil and “pagamento” ceremony hosted by VLC 2020–2022 Borderlands Fellow Carolina Caycedo in the context of her installation Genealogy of Struggle*, in El Museo del Barrio’s Estamos Bien – La Trienal 20/21. The culminating event of the museum’s acclaimed triennial, this intimate vigil is a public invitation to honor murdered environmentalists around the world. 

The public is invited to join a special lighting ceremony at sunset, with testimonies from the frontlines of environmental justice and live musical performance commissioned for the occasion, and to contribute a “pagamento” (or payback in the form of a compostable item) to the altar as a gesture of reciprocity towards our common planet house. The pagamento is an Indigenous ecologic fundamental protocol that maintains the flow and balance of life cycles on earth.

The collective pagamento built during the vigil will be used to nurture the soil where a memorial tree will be planted in New York City at a later date. We welcome any natural elements such as soil, water, seed, compost, clay, flowers, herbs, fruits, minerals, stones, wood, fibers, or anything hand-made with these components (please avoid animal, chemical, and plastic materials).

Participants:
Those registered and 
Tania Aparicio, VLC Graduate Student Fellow, PhD candidate, The New School
Carolina Caycedo, artist, 2020–2022 VLC Borderlands Fellow
Daphne Faulkner Valiente, percussion (bombo andino, kenari shaker)
Rick Faulkner, composer
Susanna Temkin, Curator, El Museo del Barrio
Jessica Valiente, flutes (quena, pinkillo)
Cecilia Vicuña, artist

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