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Cruz Alejandra Lucas: Tutunakú Poet
Genre: Art Radio, Electroacoustic music, Radio Documentary
Duration: 15 min
This sound work is part of Learning to Listen: Sound Creation and Indigenous Poetry a creative research project that in its second stage from 2019 to 2020, resulted in the creation of 3 sound works of 20 minutes each, which have been presented on thirteen platforms of nine countries:
Canada, The Hague, Spain, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Peru, and Mexico.
This sound work was created in collaboration with the Totonac poet Cruz Alejandra Lucas who is originally from Tuxtla, Zapotitlán de Méndez (Puebla, Mexico), and whose native language is Totonac. She is a poet and a recipient of a grant from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts, where she is working on a poetry collection titled “Las memorias del cántaro” (The Memories of the Pitcher), which is divided into four sections: 1) El nido para el agua (The Nest for Water); 2) Los amores de luna (Luno's Loves); 3) El chical de la abuela (Grandmother's Chical); and 4) Retorno del hermano (Brother's Return). Cruz Alejandra Lucas holds a degree in Language and Culture from the Intercultural University of the State of Puebla (UIEP). She has volunteered as a teacher at the Kgoyum Center for Higher Indigenous Studies in Huehuetla (Puebla), teaching Totonac Indigenous Language and Creative Writing Workshop, among other subjects, to young Totonac and Nahua people. Her poems focus primarily on the daily lives of indigenous women in their own communities, which of course includes the issue of violence in indigenous communities.

Featuring:

Zael Ortega

Zael Ortega is a philosopher and sound artist with 25 years of professional background in sound art and radio art. He graduated from the College of Philosophy, specializing in aesthetics and philosophy of art, at the Autonomous University of Puebla (Mexico). Since 2000, his work has focused on the field of creative research, which refers to transdisciplinary research through sound creation. This research brings together, on the one hand, the fields of philosophical, anthropological, and sociological inquiry; and on the other hand, the fields of electroacoustic music, radio art, and sound documentary. All of this forms the basis for the construction of a Political Ethics of Listening, a method that he proposed in 2010 and from which his entire concept of sound and radio art stems. His sound works have been presented in fifteen countries worldwide and have received national and international recognition. His radio works have received four awards from the International Radio Biennial (Mexico) and Radio UNAM (Mexico), and have been broadcast on more than fifty radio stations (FM/Web) around the world specializing in electroacoustic music, sound art, and radio art. His sound and radio work has received grants on two occasions from the National Fund for Culture and the Arts, the Ministry of Culture of the Government of Mexico, the National Center for the Arts (CENART), the Ministry of Culture of the State of Puebla, the Municipal Institute of Art and Culture of Puebla (IMACP), among other institutions. He is also the author and producer along with Anayuri Güemes of Electroacoustic Arts: the first and only radio project in Puebla (Mexico) completely dedicated to experimental sound and radio creation, which is currently 25 years since its inception and 20 years on the air at
Radio Universidad Autónoma de Puebla (Mexico).