NOTAS DEL BARRIO
NUESTRO LUGAR - MIS PALABRAS
un diccionario local La Merced,
Casa Vecina, Casa Talavera,
Mexico City 2010 - 2012
48 pages
1. edition 1000 copies
text, poem, drawing, photo
Distributed in the local cafés, shops, hair dresser,
libraries, cultural institutions and handed out La Merced
PRESENTATION OF THE DICTIONARY
This dictionary is based on the understanding that words can stimulate, words can affect power structures, words can be misunderstood, words can be misinterpreted, a word is a word, words create actions, words must be trusted, words create images, words make limitations, words can manipulate, words create attitudes and opinions, words have power, words can change the world.
The DICTIONARY - Notas del Barrio is created on the principle of an open structure, research, collaboration and participation.
A number of people living, working and passing by in the neighbourhood La Merced, Centro Historico Mexico D.F have contributed in selecting the 101 words, described and re-defined the words. Words that seems important in the political and social everyday life as it appears right now on this location.
The (re)-definitions are all based on individual interpretations and opinions collected by taped oral interviews and workshops made in the area.