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Clarissa Sligh Transforming Hate: An Artist’s Book

Enrique Chagoya, detail of codex The Misadventures of the Romantic Cannibals 2003 Enrique Chagoya makes codex, manuscripts that immitate the books made by the pre-contact Maya and Aztec, almost all of which were burned, although a few were shipped to Spain as curiosities.

CODEX ESPANGLIENSIS is a collaboration between Guillermo Gómez-Peña, writer/activist, Enrique Chagoya, artist/printmaker, and Felicia Rice, bookmaker/printer.

CODEX ESPANGLIENSIS In this single spread, a type-metal cut by Posada depicts a priest pointing toward the heavens while frightened parishioners gape or turn away in horror. Rather than the metaphysical wrath of the divine, hovering above is some kind of rocket or missile drawn in the style found in recent science fiction comic books. Chagoya’s substitution suggests that real danger lies in a military or technological assault on the lives and liberty of an unsuspecting and innocent population. In the center of the spread an image of Christ praying surrounded by howling coyotes or wolves symbolizes, perhaps, a kind of cultural entrapment or the sufferings encountered in border crossing (coyote is the name given those who are paid to help others to cross the US-Mexican border).

DOC/UNDOC is the sequel • https: //docundoc. com/

A mixed-media production housed in a hi-tech aluminum case, which contains Felicia Rice’s artists’ book DOC/UNDOC of performance texts by artist/writer Guillermo Gómez-Peña and critical commentary by art historian Jennifer González, video by Gómez-Peña and artist Gustavo Vazquez, and sound art by Zachary Watkins

The 2016 Global Wealth Report published by the Credit Suisse Research Institute.

Did you know the median white household has up to fifteen times the net worth of Black and Latinx households in the United States? Generocity. org, Sept. 26, 2017