Multifest 2019 - UDLA PRESENTATION
Dolores Cacuango
She was born in the latifundium of San Pablo Urcu, near Cayambe, at
Pichincha province, in Ecuador in 1881, her parents were peons or as
they were called by then “Gañanes indians”.
She was raised in a rural part in a very poor hut belonging to her
parents and she never went to school. She never learned to read or
write, but she had something in her that was different than the
others, because she decided to teach others to overcome ignorance
itself.
She learned Spanish in Quito when she worked as a housekeeper when
she was young.
Rosa Elena Tránsito Amaguaña Alba
She was an Ecuadorian indigenous leader. She was born on September
10th of 1909, in Pesillo, at Pichincha Province, next to the Cayambe
volcano.
We acknowledge her integrity and passion, perseverance, braveness
and her dedication to defend Kichwa culture.
Manuela León
She was born in Punín, Riobamba, Ecuador, 1844, She was a
brave woman who took part as leader of the communities and the
indigenous people.
She was proclaimed in 2010 as a hero by the Ecuadorian government.
Baltasara and Manuela Chivisa
They were defenders of their community and Puruhá nationality
without any doubt, even with their lives.
History tried to erase them, we know very little about what happened
during that “erase” part, however the tales took them
back to our memory when they were prey of the Spanish colonist.
Baltazara and Manuela were condemned to the hung as a result of
their participation in Guano against the census. Baltazara was
executed and brutally quartered in the public square of Riobamba, on
the contrary, Manuela was punished with 200 lashes and 4 years of
forced labor.
Lorenza Avemanay
(1753-1803). She was born in the bowels of Chimborazo volcano. She was a strong, rebellious, indomitable and wise woman who was feared and respected by all because of her tireless fight to obtain freedom. She was a woman who healed her people when Mestizo's medicines were not even close to arrive to indigenous people. She died in the most humiliating way, tortured and dragged but she fought till the end. She never gave up and she shouted "freedom" until the last minute of her life.
The appropiate DOING
The glowing sun, the breeze, the singing of the birds, the look of
the stars when the night falls, the cold and rain water which
trespass the pores to drill the bones, that´s the
countryside; land of million women – invisible to many,
inexistent for others – had left and will leave even their
own life with the objective that the food arrives to our home,
building a metamorphosis with the color of their hands with the
color of the earth. Throughout the last 3 centuries, had been
feminine characters that with their braveness, dedication and
constancy of the defense of Kichwa culture and Ecuadorian people,
had transcend in all this time, leaving by their side their
comfortability and their cultural condition relegated as a woman
to defend the rights of their people.
Nevertheless, the fragile collective and shot-term memory that we
have, it has been wanted to erase the history of the habitants in
here. The relentless regret of that dangerous game between silence
and acceptance, silence that mutate in the tissues, in the oral
memory which belongs to our grandparents and yet, has not been
written, but from that silence, we have learned. That memory,
which is an allied and accomplice with the nature in searching
harmony, not for reaffirm out theories, but to find and re-find
ourselves and our past, it is necessary write that from our
endeavor.
This is the land of the perpendicular sun, the land of the corn,
where all the grains join together and form the corncob; where the
mountains build the best postcards of our memories and
remembrance, where the smell of the wood-burning stoves
consolidate our human beings; is the land of the condor, the bear,
the puma, the jaguar, the serpent, the wolf, that care our seeds
and the paramour; the land where we would want to be to no return
and collapse in a game of worlds and collaterally in a God´s
eclipse.
!We want that the memory and life of these women live in us!
Multifest 2021 – Virtual Memory in a 360 gallery
In 2021, a virtual gallery was developed to immerse the viewer in a totally new experience with these animated paintings.
Interview in Mundo Diners magazine on February 2022
Throughout this report, the Project Virtual Memory is highlighted, showing a little bit of the development as well as the story involved behind this project, this gallery was created to be seen with an Oculus Quest 2, both the interview and the report are in Spanish. PDF Here
TEAM
Juan Diego Andrango – Lead Professor
Eliana Barrios – Lead Professor – English translation
/ French translation - Web Page
Eduardo Valenzuela – Professor – Pictures for
exposition
Auki Jetacama - Kichwa translation
Paola Valladares – French translation
Karina Monteros – Kichwa voice
Melany Orellana – English voice
Doménica Cano - Audiovisual Producer – French
voice
Pamela Villareal – Spanish voice
Alex Estrella – Ilustrator -
https://alexestrellaart.wixsite.com/portafolio
Daniel Guevara – Ilustrator and conceptual artist -
https://www.facebook.com/DanielGuevaraEc/?referrer=whatsapp
Wilson Vera – Visual artist–
www.Instagram.com/wilo_vera
Xavier Peñaherrera – Interactive Design –
www.Instagram.com/ola.graphics
Antonella Donoso – Visual Artist – Instagram/@bunny.design430
Angel Jumbo – Interactive Artist – Instagram/@aldaz6 – Linkedin/
angeljumbo
3D Stage – Unity Assets
Soundtrack – Lucho Quintanilla – MUNAYKI: Into the
Heart of the Universe https://luchoquintanilla1.bandcamp.com/
CONTACT US
juan.andrango@udla.edu.ec
eliana.barrios@udla.edu.ec
