ChristinaMaria Patino Xochitlzihuatl Houle decolonizes the interview itself!
b'Artist, activist and visionary ChristinaMaria Xochitlzihuatl Pati\\xf1o Houle is the co-founder and lead visionary of Las Imaginistas, a socially engaged art collective working to liberate the public imagination.Several of Las Imaginistas\\u2019 projects have centered on Brownsville, TX, including \\u201cTaller de Permiso,\\u201d an arts and economic-justice campaign. Through hands-on art-making workshops and events, \\u201cTaller de Permiso\\u201d harnessed the community\\u2019s collective imagination to parse and reimagine the municipal permitting process, particularly as it affects small businesses operating in communities of color.Another Las Imaginistas project is \\u201cBorders Like Water,\\u201d an ongoing international cross-cultural collaboration between healers, visionaries and thought leaders. \\u201cBorders Like Water\\u201d centers ancestral wisdoms and environmental understanding to answer the question, \\u201cIf borders have been like ice, how can they move like water?\\u201dChristinaMaria is also the Weaver for Voces Unidas, a network focused on immigration and community development issues serving the multi-state Rio Grande Valley.\\xa0In this interview with Pier Carlo Talenti, ChristinaMaria, who is passionate about decolonizing longstanding historical and cultural practices, shares her deep unease with the traditional interview process and its fraught history and power dynamics.\\xa0She then describes how she herself has honed her own listening practice when she visits and learns from Indigenous communities throughout the Americas.https://www.christinapatinohoule.com/https://www.lasimaginistas.com/https://www.giarts.org/blog/christinamaria-patino-xochitlzihuatl-houle/art-money-and-apocalypse-lots-questions-few'