ARTE Y TURISMO SERIES

"Cannibals have always been others. This is a common and widespread prejudice throughout the world. It is a way of attributing to the stranger the negative mark of an extreme otherness that allows us to delimit the borders of our own identity. The term cannibal It was born linked to the conquest of America, the cultural confrontation, the imperial war and plunder. For centuries, Europe used it as an instrument of legitimization of imperialism and colonialism. However, during the last decades of the last century, with global tourism. and the devaluation of the exotic, we witness the displacement of the figure of the cannibal from the edges of our world towards the center, from our external space to our internal space. José Díaz Cuyás

"The Viennese Actionist artist, Otto Muehl, founded a commune in 1970 with the intention of fusing art and life. The project had an exceptional development, it had more than five hundred members, becoming one of the largest countercultural communities in Europe. of the 20th century. At the beginning of the 1980s, the group lightened its social-revolutionary ideology and went from an economy based on rural collectivism to turning to financial speculation investments. The discipline of scheduled work ended up putting high profitability in contradiction. the hedonistic and collectivist principles that had been the foundation of the commune". Ralph Kistler