Movement of the Liberation of the Coca Plant
Amy Franceschini + Wilson Diaz installation March 18 – April 25
Taking inspiration from George Orwell’s fairy story, Animal Farm, we have been developing a “fairy story” through an email exchange since September of this year. 1 Our collaborative story uses the Three Blind Mice tale as a departure point to address the various political, social and economic powers at play around the conservation and perpetuity of the coca plant. We will continue this exchange between January 09-May 09. Born from this story will be a series of printed matter, a musical score, drawings and sculptures.
1 “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly, against totalitarianism… Animal Farm was the first book in which I tried, with full consciousness of what I was doing, to fuse political purpose and artistic purpose into one whole” In his criticisms of some of his contemporaries, a recurrent theme was their failure to protest against the world they live in.
-George Orwell and C.M. Woodhouse, Introduction, Animal Farm