we walked and walked until we found the abandoned monster
Juraguá, the path of blue waters
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Juragua... is a socio-artistic project which involves a group of people living in a community in Cienfuegos, Cuba, and works on an environmental issue in that area of the country.
This project proposes to get closer to this place, called CEN (Nuclear City). It was built in 1982, close to the facilities of the Electro Nuclear Power Plant of Juraguá, with the intention of being the home for the engineers and other workers for the future plant.
This project wants to raise awareness about the ecological damage for the blue lakes around the city, the forest and the soils, and the environmental impact for the community in case the dumpster is finally built.
The whole construction was interrupted during the early 90s, and the place became a sort of capsule of time, still and slow. Today it confronts many socio-economic issues, due to its isolation, and environmental ones, due to the possible construction of a hazardous waste dumpster. This information is not very clear to the inhabitants, though.
It’s an invitation to trace together a path of (re) knowledge and (re) reading of the place. To think about its past, about the social utopia that created it, and the current relations of the inhabitants with its present and, above all, with its future and the preservation of the environment.
Project website: here
CREDITS
Coordination/direction
Karina Pino Gallardo
Alessandra Santiesteban
Atilio Caballero
Experts of life/ performers
Atilio Caballero
Arianna Cepero
Fabricio Caballero
Natalia Caballero
Jose Gabriel Limonta
Gabriel Alejandro Limonta Diaz
Taimi Blanco
Aleksander Naranjo
Daniel Anton Morera
Facilitators/mediators
Luis Ángel Rodríguez (Biologist/environmentalist)
Abel Domínguez (Local historian)
Aleksander Naranjo (Electrical Engineer)
Collaboration
Teatro de La Fortaleza, Cienfuegos, Cuba
Documentation
Daniel Antón Morera
Karina Pino
Grethel Malú Román Urquiola
Funding
Project awarded by Prince Claus Foundation and Goethe Institut- Call for Cultural and Artistic Responses to Environmental Change 2020.
