Brainstorm # 6 - Angie Lai

In "Ceremony of Memory: The Call and Response", Gonzales lists books, calendar systems, and birthing customs, such as a woman's braid or shawl, as technologies that are resilience practices embedded in IK (73, 85). One main conceptual thread that runs throughout the readings and video is the indigenous view of time and the technologies that accompany it. Time can be thought of as a non-linear entity that has healing properties and link between past, present, and future. As Professor MHP states, "As Chicanafuturism reframes the past through new communication technologies, the potentials of new presents and futures are born" (162). Girl in Coma's use of today's technology, like twitter, reflects this idea, just as the Mesoamerican women from the past did with the use of their technology. Convivencia is represented in the "Clumsy Sky" video through the shots of people coming together to dance. As Professor MHP states, these shots "[imply] that social movement can emerge from communal joy", and that this communal dance represents "a collective and intentional creation of autonomous social space where 'the deliberate act of being with each other, and of being present to each other' takes place" (171). These shots are cut with shots of old pictures, exemplifying cultural convening while also using the past to define the present and future (1:45, 1:50, 2:30).