Rexiste

Self-portrait

Ciento treinta y dos veces nacimos latiendo en colectivo. Fuimos fuego que arde de alegría, llama que alumbra su oscuridad. Nos vimos a los ojos y supimos que nuestro amor es nuestra rebeldía.

¿Qué es la libertad? preguntaron las capuchas. Y la respuesta fue pregunta de vuelta, preguntarnos a nos-otrxs-mismxs.

Libertad de sernos sin pedir permiso, esperanza que se siembra, que se cuida y se crece, código abierto, experimento, momento recreativo, movimiento, memoria y movimiento, intervención, contagio, transgresión, autocrítica, de-ese-arte libre, idea sin dueño, sin copyright, replicable, reapropiable, insurrecta utopía:

Existo porque resisto.

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Rexiste es un proyecto colectivo que se sustenta con los ánimos y los recursos que sus integrantes pueden aportar, si te interesa puedes apoyarnos compartiéndonos en facebook, en twitter, comprándonos un print o una playera, haciendo donaciones en especie, prestando tu pared para hacer una pinta o si se te ocurre alguna otra manera escríbenos: contacto@rexiste.org (972BCE0E puedes enviarnos correos encriptados)

(http://rexiste.org/rexistemx)

Description

Rexiste is a self-supporting collective defending freedom of expression and resistance through urban art interventions in the public space —graffiti, stencil, murals, etc.— . The project is built and maintained with the collaboration of its members, voluntary donations in money or working materials and the sale of printed artworks. Their work responds to political and social problems, using images and words as tools for public denunciation of crime, injustice, corruption, repression and other abuses committed by the state.

Graffiti events have been organised in different places, such as the Zócalo of Mexico City, Reforma Avenue, Ciudad Universitaria, the Cineteca Nacional and various strategic points of visibility of the city. Such is the case of the intervention "Fuiste tú, Duarte" [It was you, Duarte] in the mexico city neighbour of Narvarte, where five people were murdered, including the photojournalist Rubén Espinosa and the activist Nadia Vera. The project "¿Dónde voto para que se vayan?" [Where can I vote to oust them?] was a huge banner made as a statement in front of the National Electoral Institute on the midterm election day, in July of 2015, as a challenge to the Mexican electoral system. Several interventions have been made in order to call for clarification and to demand the apparition of the 43 missing students in Ayotzinapa in 2014. Some of these interventions, comprised of video, stencils, murals, posters, or confetti, were part of the marches, public demonstrations and protests. Rexiste painted the word "Mentira" [Bullshit] in large dimensions at the Cineteca Nacional, facing the screening of "The night of Iguala", a movie produced by TV Azteca that ostensibly manipulated the information regarding the events of Ayotzinapa.

Video and image files of their interventions are available for free download in their website. As part of their experiments, the Rexiste collective is developing the project "Droncita", a drone that will be used to make programmed graffitis in the city. One of its goals is to serve as a replicable tool, so they are working on the possibility of sharing the instructions of its construction and programming.

Links

URL: http://rexiste.org/

Wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://rexiste.org/