CAPAS RESEARCH PROJECT - Federico Cuatlacuatl Nahualismos, Futurisms & Transborder Embodiments
During my time in this fellowship, I will amplify ancestral knowledge and Nahua cosmologies from central Mexico—ritual practices connected to our land that have resisted and survived colonial power systems. I will be working closely with my community's histories and experiences of being forced to self-displace to the U.S.A., expanding on Transborder Embodiments as survival tactics to build resiliency and thrive under apocalyptic conditions of forced mass migrations and colonial power structures. Speculative Nahua futurisms will be a particular focus in my artistic productions, addressing resistance under oppressive conditions in order to build alternative realities, other worlds, and a futurity through non-Western notions of spatialities and temporalities.