Visible Storytelling: Tequiografías with Daniel Godínez Nivón
Daniel Godínez Nivón is in conversation with Visible curator Carolina Lio about the Tequiografías, alternative educational tools realised in collaboration with indigenous communities in Mexico City.
Tequiografías respond to the conventional ‘Monografías escolares’ (school monographs): illustrated tables summarising information on historical events, figures and geographies addressed to school pupils.
While monografías are mass-produced and present ethnic groups in a stereotypical way, tequiografías offer insights into the lifestyle and culture of indigenous communities. Tequiografías were developed by Godínez Nivón and the Assembly of Indigenous Migrants through a practice named ‘tequila’: a community-based collaborative system of organisation consisting of unpaid and mandatory work for communal benefit.
The project investigates the ‘tequio’ collaboration on transmitting knowledge and defining identity, and introduces an alternative Indigenous perspective in the Mexican educational system.
Visible Storytelling is a project by Visible (Cittadellarte - Fondazione Pistoletto and Fondazione Zegna) curated by Carolina Lio. It aims to narrate some of the stories behind the projects in the Visible Archive, a platform that researches, produces and connects long-term socially engaged art projects, working with artists dealing with the urgencies of our times.
Visible Storytelling's videos are produced by Looking Forward. Looking Forward also curated the social media campaign associated with the project on Visible Instagram.