How Long to Read Strange Teaching Mexico City

How Long Does it Take to Read Strange Teaching Mexico City?

It takes the average reader and 35 minutes to read Strange Teaching Mexico City by Rainer Ganahl

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Description

In 1968, Mexico City hosted the Olympic games, which have been very important for the rapid urbanization of the city. However the Olympics also served as a stage for the protests of student movements in Mexico and elsewhere. Leading up to the games, which were a symbol of peace, the Mexican government massacred between 300 and 400 students, who were indiscriminately mowed down by government forces, during the protest for social justice. Political tensions arose due to massive expenses for the games and the profound resistance on the side of the government to improve the situation for labourers and farmers. Far over a thousand people were arrested and countless people injured. To this day, the Mexican government still refuses to acknowledge any kind of blame, hence why there is an insufficient clarity and even less well conducted research on this very matter. The games are also being remembered for the US athletes John Carlos and Tommie Smith, who greeted their Olympic medals with the Black Power Salute, a raised fist and a lowered head.Mexico City also hosted an ambitious international art exhibit, with the telling name "Route of friendship", consisting exclusively of large concrete sculptures that where supposed to be coloured and placed along a new highway rout leading out of the then smaller city. Today, many of these sculptures are still in place, but have been drowned out by the bustling city. Even though they are nowadays generally overlooked, these sculptures are still protruding from the ground, asking to be recognised as a symbol for hope and International friendships.Hegel's idea of historical repetition as a farce has been proven right yet again and is repeating itself 50 years later. Racial tensions are yet again running on high in the USA and are being addressed with the graceful resistance of the Black Power Symbols at sports events. Donald Trump, who is easily the most divisive president of the USA in many decades, is in the business of constructing a ,,big, beautiful wall with Mexico". Furthermore, he has implemented the exit from international trading deals, which include Mexico and the rest of the world, in order to benefit his ,,America First" logic. As a new instalment of my ongoing ,,Strange teaching" project, I will ask various students to take up the original idea of the ,,route of friendship" and place works made of concrete along a route yet to be determined. With no production budget and no permits, artists and students alike are asked to install works clandestinely along a route of friendship. The works should also be made of concrete, but have to remain unidentifiable, stealthy, absorbed by it's regular surrounding, thereby avoiding a removal and sanction. It's the art of each participant to find a way to insert him- or herself into a public space throughout Mexico City. The artist run space, Ladron (Thief), who are our generous host for the duration of this process, will show models, drawings and documents of the process and the final works. Additionally they will also organise some tours to the actual works in place. At Ladron, we will try to host lectures and improvised classes, according to the logic of Strange teaching. Given the international scope of the original project, I will try to invite students from various countries and art academies to join and rework the very idea of a series of Friendship sculptures, in a time of open chauvinist hostilities, new political formations of fascisms and a rejection of globalist views of an open world. The 1968 selection of participating countries appears random with Germany, Britain, the Netherlands and any Nordic Countries missing. From Central and South America, only Uruguay and Mexico participated, with the host country executing even two projects. Hence, our group consisting of semi-randomly put together internationals will not attempt to regroup along national lines, but rather along conceptual and artistic once.

How long is Strange Teaching Mexico City?

Strange Teaching Mexico City by Rainer Ganahl is 35 pages long, and a total of 8,925 words.

This makes it 12% the length of the average book. It also has 11% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Strange Teaching Mexico City Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes and 48 minutes to read Strange Teaching Mexico City aloud.

What Reading Level is Strange Teaching Mexico City?

Strange Teaching Mexico City is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

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