Requiem for a Lost Land / Requiem para una tierra perdida at National Hispanic Cultural Center

Requiem for a Lost Land / Requiem para una tierra perdida. The bilingual title makes reference to the bi-national reality of the “war against drugs.” Requiem is an attempt, from the space of performance art, to open with the coroner’s knife the very same discourse of death broadcasted by those in power under the guise of “national security.” Inside its rotten entrails, we re-discover the daily suffering of the common citizen, the most affected by a vicious and pathological decision of the state that has nothing to do with his or her wellbeing, and much to do with some of the darker designs of power that the country has seen in its history.