{"id":71,"date":"2018-01-09T19:23:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-09T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/?p=71"},"modified":"2025-10-01T15:44:40","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:44:40","slug":"juarez-sound-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Juarez Sound System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-152\" src=\"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000603-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000603-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000603.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ENGLISH BELOW<\/p>\n<p>El \u00e1rea de libre comercio entre las fronteras de M\u00e9xico y Estados Unidos ha creado una enorme franja difusa de l\u00edmites borrosos, al menos en una de las direcciones del flujo. Esta vibraci\u00f3n en el dibujo de la frontera genera un estado de confusi\u00f3n permanente que anima la impunidad y la convierte en una densa sombra que impide conocer en detalle que es lo que ocurre. Sin embargo, los conflictos latentes en estas sociedades emergen en forma de cad\u00e1veres y redibujan dram\u00e1ticamente esta frontera a pesar de los esfuerzos desde muchos \u00e1mbitos por restarle visibilidad. La propuesta de construir un muro de hormig\u00f3n en la frontera USA-Mexicana no se concibe s\u00f3lo como un modo de evitar la permeabilidad de la frontera para aumentar el control sobre los flujos migratorios, sino que pretende ocultar a la vista que es lo que ocurre al otro lado \u2013baste recordar la actuaci\u00f3n de una parte de la sociedad de la ciudad de El Paso, donando materiales de pintura para \u201dembellecer\u201d un \u00e1rea de Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez que consideraban tan deteriorada que afectaba, y afeaba, su visi\u00f3n.<\/p>\n<p>Ciudad Juarez ha sido durante d\u00e9cadas un conocido destino de un determinado tipo de ocio nocturno desde el otro lado de la frontera, en busca de unas libertades prohibidas all\u00e1 y sobrepasadas ac\u00e1, es hoy tristemente famosa por los inexplicables, brutales y aun no resueltos feminicidios ocurridos en los \u00faltimos 10 a\u00f1os. Ciudad Juares \/ El Paso, es la mayor frontera terrestre de los USA, por trafico de mercanc\u00edas y personas. El Proyecto Juarez, organizado por Palacio Negro y comisariado por Mariana David, puso en marcha una propuesta en la que invitaba a una serie de artistas a reflexionar e intervenir en este contexto. En esta pieza se pone en relaci\u00f3n im\u00e1genes de un recorrido por la misma frontera, desde el lado mexicano -lo que se ve al fondo es El Paso- con una serie de grabaciones de audio realizadas en diferentes conciertos momentos antes de comenzar a sonar la m\u00fasica.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">C\u00e1mara: Alejandra Alos<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-151\" src=\"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000586.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000586.jpg 540w, http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000586-300x156.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-150\" src=\"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000566.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000566.jpg 540w, http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000566-300x163.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-149\" src=\"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000342.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000342.jpg 540w, http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000342-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-146\" src=\"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000285.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000285.jpg 540w, http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000285-300x194.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 491px) 100vw, 491px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-145\" src=\"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000284.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"307\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000284.jpg 540w, http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000284-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-147\" src=\"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000286.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000286.jpg 540w, http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000286-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-144\" src=\"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000283.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000283.jpg 540w, http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/P1000283-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>ENGLISH TEXT<\/p>\n<p>The free trade area between the borders of Mexico and the United States has created a huge blurred strip of indistinct boundaries, at least in one direction of the flow. This vibration in the drawing of the border generates a state of permanent confusion that encourages impunity and turns it into a dense shadow that prevents us from understanding in detail what is happening. However, the latent conflicts in these societies emerge in the form of corpses and dramatically redefine this border despite efforts from many quarters to make it less visible dramatically redefine this border. The proposal to build a concrete wall on the US-Mexican border is not only conceived as a way to prevent the permeability of the border in order to increase control over migratory flows, but also aims to hide from view what is happening on the other side \u2013 suffice it to recall the actions of a section of society in the city of El Paso, donating paint to \u201cbeautify\u201d an area of Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez that they considered so deteriorated that it impaired and spoiled their view.<\/p>\n<p>Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez has for decades been a well-known destination for a certain kind of nightlife from the other side of the border, in search of freedoms banned on one side and taken to excess on the other. Today, it is sadly infamous for the inexplicable, brutal, and still unresolved femicides that have taken place during the past decade. Ciudad Ju\u00e1rez\/El Paso is the largest land border crossing of the USA in terms of the traffic of goods and people. The Ju\u00e1rez Project, organized by Palacio Negro and curated by Mariana David, initiated a project in which a group of artists were invited to reflect on and intervene in this context. This piece connects images of a journey along the border itself, from the Mexican side \u2014with El Paso visible in the background\u2014 with a series of audio recordings made at different concerts just before the music started.<\/p>\n<p>Camera: Alejandra Alos<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Juarez Sound System\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/255717832?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ENGLISH BELOW El \u00e1rea de libre comercio entre las fronteras de M\u00e9xico y Estados Unidos ha creado una enorme franja difusa de l\u00edmites borrosos, al menos en una de las direcciones del flujo. Esta vibraci\u00f3n en el dibujo de la frontera genera un estado de confusi\u00f3n permanente que anima la impunidad y la convierte en [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,4,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":744,"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions\/744"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ramon-mateos.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}