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Vis. [un]necessary force_3
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Credits: Luz Maria Sanchez
Credits: Luz Maria Sanchez
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Credits: Luz Maria Sanchez
Credits: Luz Maria Sanchez
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Credits: Luz Maria Sanchez
Credits: Luz Maria Sanchez
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Credits: Luz Maria Sanchez
Credits: Luz Maria Sanchez
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Credits: Luz Maria Sanchez
Credits: Luz Maria Sanchez
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Credits: Fernando Gonzalez Buenrostro
Credits: Fernando Gonzalez Buenrostro
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Credits: Fernando Gonzalez Buenrostro
Credits: Fernando Gonzalez Buenrostro
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Credits: Luz Maria Sanchez
Credits: Luz Maria Sanchez
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Credits: Fernando Gonzalez Buenrostro
Credits: Fernando Gonzalez Buenrostro
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Credits: Fernando Gonzalez Buenrostro
Credits: Fernando Gonzalez Buenrostro
Vis. [un]necessary force_3 or under its acronym V.[u]nf_3, addresses one of the most alarming issues in Mexico: the abduction of young individuals, mostly male, ages 18 to 30, often with the complicity of police/military forces. In 2019 numbers escalated to +60,000 forced-disappearance registered cases. Due to the lack of action of the local/federal authorities, citizens have been organising themselves to perform independent investigations and on-site searches for their abducted family members. Threatened by cartels and police/military forces alike, these citizens are the only ones who--organised in small groups--are looking for forced-disappearance victims nation-wide.
V.[u]nf_3 is an artistic-social project developed for communities that search for their family members, victims of forced-disappearance. It consists of a collaborative and participatory audio-visual cyber-cartography for mobile systems and a data-visualisation website. And materialises as a tool + online- space created for documenting expeditions of individuals--embedded in close- knitted communities--looking for clandestine graves. The app registers text, audio, video, and geo-locates data. The website is the archive--visualising and systematising data recorded: private histories that together construct the chronicles of the whole community.
V. [u]nf_3 is a tool explicitly designed for Mexican trackers of clandestine graves. The preliminary functional model, was made after the activities of Las Rastreadoras de El Fuerte (The Trackers from El Fuerte), a community-- consisting predominantly of women--that has been searching for graves around the city of Los Mochis, in the northern state of Sinaloa since 2014 under the
guidance of Mirna Medina.
V. [u]nf_3 allows for reinforcing citizen-empowerment through the building of an individual + collective data-cartography; strengthening the community through the shared experience of reviewing and analysing outcomes from data- recollection; breaking the digital exclusion through learning-while-using the app + website; experiencing a bespoke social software made for the specificity of their search practices; creating an expedition-archive through this user- generated content + metadata tool; building resistance against oblivion and neglect while constructing a digital-memorial that will honor their loved ones when registering their stories.
Links: www.vis-unnecessaryforce.org
V.[u]nf_3 is an artistic-social project developed for communities that search for their family members, victims of forced-disappearance. It consists of a collaborative and participatory audio-visual cyber-cartography for mobile systems and a data-visualisation website. And materialises as a tool + online- space created for documenting expeditions of individuals--embedded in close- knitted communities--looking for clandestine graves. The app registers text, audio, video, and geo-locates data. The website is the archive--visualising and systematising data recorded: private histories that together construct the chronicles of the whole community.
V. [u]nf_3 is a tool explicitly designed for Mexican trackers of clandestine graves. The preliminary functional model, was made after the activities of Las Rastreadoras de El Fuerte (The Trackers from El Fuerte), a community-- consisting predominantly of women--that has been searching for graves around the city of Los Mochis, in the northern state of Sinaloa since 2014 under the
guidance of Mirna Medina.
V. [u]nf_3 allows for reinforcing citizen-empowerment through the building of an individual + collective data-cartography; strengthening the community through the shared experience of reviewing and analysing outcomes from data- recollection; breaking the digital exclusion through learning-while-using the app + website; experiencing a bespoke social software made for the specificity of their search practices; creating an expedition-archive through this user- generated content + metadata tool; building resistance against oblivion and neglect while constructing a digital-memorial that will honor their loved ones when registering their stories.
Links: www.vis-unnecessaryforce.org
With support from: Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte (SNCA)/ Secretaria de Cultura Mexico, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Romain Ré molosc.com
V.[u]nf_3 started off as Luz Maria Sanchez's research-creation project developed at Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, and was supported with a grant from the National System of Art Creators. The project was sparked off by the question: How do civilians survive amongst extreme violence performed by legit and non-legit groups of power in Mexico? Its results have been on exhibition at MUAC (Mexico City), WRO Biennale/WRO Art Center (Wroclaw), and ZKM|Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe). V. [u]nf_3's core team include Luz Maria Sanchez (author), Romain Re (general digital developer/programmer), Ana Paula Sanchez-Cardona (production assistant), Jorge Velez (mobile-app programmer), Josue Martinez Alcantara/Fernando Gonzalez Buenrostro (on-site documentation). Advisors for V. [u]nf_3 are Carolina Robledo (GIASF), Daniela Rea, Jacobo Dayan, and Salvador Maldonado Aranda.