In this episode, Jessie Mordine Young speaks with Alejandro de Avila Blomberg, the founding director of the Ethnobotanical Garden and curator at the Oaxaca Textile Museum in Oaxaca, Mexico. They discuss his career in anthropology, the history of cochineal, and the evolution of biodiversity in the region.
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In this episode, Jessie Mordine Young speaks with Alejandro de Avila Blomberg, the founding director of the Ethnobotanical Garden and curator at the Oaxaca Textile Museum in Oaxaca, Mexico. They discuss his career in anthropology, the history of cochineal, and the evolution of biodiversity in the region.
S1E8: Tanya Aguiñiga—Making Metabolizing the Border
Fields of the Future
34 minutes 29 seconds
4 years ago
S1E8: Tanya Aguiñiga—Making Metabolizing the Border
In This Episode
Christina De León speaks to Tanya Aguiñiga about Metabolizing the Border, the performative embodiment of her engagement with the people and the landscape at the borderlands between Mexico and the US. With frank candor, Aguiñiga describes her years on the road and the environment, politics, and trauma that animate her work, as well as the emotional and spiritual difficulty of the performance and its aftermath.
Fields of the Future
In this episode, Jessie Mordine Young speaks with Alejandro de Avila Blomberg, the founding director of the Ethnobotanical Garden and curator at the Oaxaca Textile Museum in Oaxaca, Mexico. They discuss his career in anthropology, the history of cochineal, and the evolution of biodiversity in the region.
