Ocotepec Odyssey
2014
Series of videos and vinyl record
Ocotepec Odyssey is a trans-disciplinary research project about radical social experiences challenging the belief in progress in Mexico in the 1960s and 70s. It takes its name from a small town in Morelos, whose indigenous communitarian features inspired Austrian philosopher and maverick Catholic priest Ivan Illich. Illich later founded a center called CIDOC in Cuernavaca: a gathering point for radical intellectuals from around the world, whose practitioners questioned the axioms of modern. Their alternative thought was related to liberation theology.
Ocotepec Odyssey is a trip that goes from popular feminist pedagogical experiences to experimental hallucinogenic group therapy, from psychoanalysis in monasteries to alternatives to schooling. In this non-linear narrative, stories around Illich and CIDOC are fictionalized; a galactic queer axolotl warns us about the counterproductive effects of modernity, and a transgender priest reads a mass and lulls to sleep their fetus-monks.
Musical Production:
MARÍA EMILIA MARTÍNEZ and FEDERICO SCHMUCLER
Music:
MARÍA EMILIA MARTÍNEZ and OSCAR MILLÁN
Special Guest:
INVASORIX
Lyrics: NAOMI RINCÓN-GALLARDO. Except in: “Here no one is illegal” and “The anus unites us”
lyrics:
INVASORIX
"PSICOSÍNTESIS TECNICOLOR"
Lyrics:
ENRIQUE ARRIAGA y NAOMI RINCÓN GALLARDO
Musical Arrangements:
MARÍA EMILIA MARTÍNEZ, JUAN JAIME SANTANA, FEDERICO SCHMUCLER
Beatbox in “The anus unites us”:
ALEXIS SERRA
Vocals:
ENRIQUE ARRIAGA, EDUARDO BERNAL, MÓNICA CASTILLO, BÁRBARA DÍAZ, INVASORIX, LÍA LA NOVIA SIRENA, MARÍA EMILIA MARTÍNEZ, NAOMI RINCÓN GALLARDO, VALERIA ROJAS, JUAN JAIME SANTANA, FEDERICO SCHMUCLER, MARIE STRAUSS
Special guest in “Psicosíntesis Tecnicolor”: BÁRBARA LÁZARA
Cinematography in “Here no one is illegal” and “The anus unites us”:
JASSO
Cinematography and Editing in “Technicolor Psychosyn-thesis”:
MAYRA HUERTA
Invasorix:
DARIA CHERNYSHEVA, WAYSATTA FERNANDEZ, NINA HOECHTL, MAJ BRITT JENSEN, NATALIA MAGDALENO, LIZ MISTERIO, NAOMI RINCÓN GALLARDO and MIRNA ROLDÁN
Non-Actors:
DANIEL AGUILAR, CÉSAR JERÓNIMO GONZÁLEZ, ENRIQUE ARRIAGA, GELEN ALCÁNTARA, MARÍA FERNANDA AYALA, EDUARDO BERNAL, MÓNICA CASTILLO, CARMEN CEBREROS, MARÍA CERDÁ, ALEJANDRA CONTRERAS, HELENA FERNÁNDEZ CAVADA, ESTEBAN KING, LÍA LA NOVIA SIRENA, BEA MARCOS, MARÍA EMILIA MARTÍNEZ, MAURICIO MARCÍN, ANTONIO MONROY, ELISA NAVARRO, MARIE STRAUSS, JOSÉ LUIS VIESCA, FABIOLA TORRES ALZAGA and INVASORIX