Third International Conference on Communication & Media Studies

Abstract

Chontalli is an expanded studio in which people from distant territories collaborate through an online platform where students develop exercises or projects that require remote collaboration. My intention is to create a contemporary trajectory-landscape among sites that have similarities to rethink concepts such as identity, belonging, territory, mobility and residency. The online site provides visual arts students in Morelos a scene for creative collaboration extending beyond contiguous Mexico City. Expanding the universe of universities that cooperate, making possible the intersection of geographic, online, academic and personal spaces that depart from a common historic event is the goal of this online studio. Bilateral agreement Hiroshima-Morelos is the resulting art project of the first productive cycle of the studio which included participants studying at Hiroshima City University, Morelos Center for Arts University, and University of Hawaii. In this study, I analyze this art project, the collaborative process it involved, and its relation to the concentration camp for Mexican residents of Japanese origin or ancestry that was located in Morelos between 1942-45.