Ecos de la chicha
Multi sensorial culinary and sonic art experience
45 Salón Nacional de artistas
Bogotá – Oct 2019
Group of collaborators: Elena Villamil (cooking and testimony), María Buenaventura (cooking), Yudy Esmeralda Ramirez (singing and market shouting) and workshop participants (Camilo Quiroga, Cristina Consuegra, Laura Escobar, Victoria Portela, Luza Quiceno Quiroga, Sabina Gámez and Camilo Leyva)
Chicha is a fermented drink of ancestral origins, made with maize , which has different variations throughout Latin America. In 1948, the Colombian government banned chicha under the lobby and pressure of banker Julio Mario Santo Domingo and his brewing company Bavaria. As part of this campaign against Chicha, the government released a racist and classist advertisement campaign which attacked citizens from rural and unprivileged areas, and from indigenous descent.
In Colombia, Chicha is considered a cultural and aesthetic element of resistance in connection with ancestral indigenous knowledge and with the contention against colonial Spanish forces and hegemonic and detrimental economic practices that have affected underprivileged communities. Furthermore, maize, like its derivate, Chicha, is a symbol of resistance not only because of its organic resiliency against climate conditions and insects, but also because it relates to an element of cultural resistance in historical political process like the Mexican revolution or the fight against transgenic crops across the continent as is noted in the research of excellent contemporary researchers like Gilberto Giménez, Jorge A. Gonzáles and Catherine Héau.
LISTEN TO THE SOUNDS OF CHICHA BREWING
https://davidvelez.bandcamp.com/album/preparando-chicha
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