ANA ALENSO

What the mine gives, the mine takes proposes an exploratory journey, at the same time speculative and documentary, through the current conditions of the Venezuelan Amazon. From the roots of the dense Amazon jungle, approaching us to the indigenous cosmogonies and their ways of coexisting with the gold and diamond mines, to the tensions between the different armed groups that control the region, the trajectories of smuggling and drug trafficking, the extraction technologies and the socio-environmental consequences of years of exploitation and dispossession. Through a dialogue between art, research, science, poetry, painting, activism and architecture, a conglomerate of testimonies and ideas is woven that proposes a broad and heterogeneous vision of the ecocide that is happening right before our eyes.

The project includes contributions from the activist group SOSOrinoco, filmmaker Alexandra Henao, Pemón Kukuy, poet Santiago Acosta, researcher Alessandra Caputo Jaffe, urban architect Ricardo Avella and artists Ana Alenso, Luis Arroyo, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Esperanza Mayobre, Marcos Montiel Soto, Lucia Pizzani and Christian Vink. The book is edited by Ana Alenso, designed by Estudio Santiago Da Silva and  published by Bom Dia Books. 

INDEX

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Note of the Editor

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Santiago Acosta

Quiksilver Jungle

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Lucia Pizzani

Todopoderosa (Almighty)

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Kukuy

We are Gold and Diamond Dust 

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Alexandra Henao

Poisoned Kuyujani

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Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe

Urihi therimi thepe re peri ai wei (the live out there in the jungle)

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SOS Orinoco

Apoipó Campo Alegre

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Ana Alenso

What the Mine Gives, the Mine Takes

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Esperanza Mayobre

Drawings of the Master and the Slave

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Ricardo Avella 

The Paradox of Plenty: its consequences and perils for the future of the Venezuelan Amazon

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Christian Vinck

Unofficial History of Latin American Aviation.

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Luis Arroyo

A Suit for Two Bodies (Preparation of the Public Theater)

The Separation or Lineage of the Crystalline

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ACL/SPV

Mining Camp

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Alessandra Caputo Jaffe

Orinoco, Tainted Paradise

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Marco Montiel-Soto

Postcards from Venezuela

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Contributions