Following an incident that occurred in Cañada Real in 2007, where one of its most tense moments was experienced during a series of mass demolitions and episodes of police violence against its inhabitants, which resulted in a pitched battle, one of the museum's works was articulated; “Intifada Cañada,” which bears the same name that the press used to define that event.
During the creation process, the women of the Asociación Tabadol, during their walks around Cañada, carried out a collection of stones. In parallel, a series of phrases were selected that had previously emerged in the workshops developed with them, the memory activation workshops.
Once the stones and phrases were chosen, we went out to Cañada itself to invite its inhabitants to participate in a collective dynamic, writing on the stones some phrase whose main objective was to encourage expressions that appealed to the anger against evictions, power supply cuts, and institutional exclusion.
This way of working emerged from the messages written on bombs in war contexts. The stone, however, has historically been used as a weapon by those who have no weapons, and it is re-signified here as a support for words and memory. By writing on them, their function is inverted, and they become objects of resistance, carriers of a discourse that speaks of the structural violence in which they live.
Subsequently, and internally with those stones, the final version of the work “Intifada Cañada” was created, which, in addition to the exhibition of the stones, consists of a video and some posters.
