Re: [-empyre-] Monika Weiss -- Shrouds, 2012-2013 (as addendum to Lamentation)

2012-10-05 Thread Ana Valdés
Beautiful text, Monika! When I was a child (I was a very precocius reader :) and read history of Rome and Greece. My favorite was the history of Carthage and I was shocked how the city was erased and the Romans threw salt in it to avoid the Carthagineses should build it again. These horrible fate

Re: [-empyre-] Monika Weiss -- Shrouds, 2012-2013 (as addendum to Lamentation)

2012-10-05 Thread Ana Valdés
A group of friends of mine, the architect group Hackitectura, www.hackitectura.net work with maps and try to make a cartography of the memory (or the lack of it) mapping social relations, inmaterial networks, political issues. One of their main pillars is the work with communities wanting to

Re: [-empyre-] Monika Weiss -- Shrouds, 2012-2013 (as addendum to Lamentation)

2012-10-05 Thread Monika Weiss
I would love to get in touch with them, if you think possible. This has been and continues to be my main project (in other cities as well) since last year and it would be interesting to consider a collaboration with them, should they be interested. I feel a deep connection to your writing Ana

Re: [-empyre-] Monika Weiss -- Shrouds, 2012-2013 (as addendum to Lamentation)

2012-10-05 Thread Ana Valdés
Thank you Monika! I feel a deep sympathy with your writing and your work. Mourning and lament make heavy bonds :) I am back in Uruguay after 34 years of exile in Sweden and I meet now many women who has been in jail with me. We feel a deep connection, having shared those terrible years make us