Spaces of State Power

Question 1

What three violent events occured in the Plaza de las Tres Culturas/Tlatelolco? How are these events memorialized?

Answer 1

The Conquest of the Aztec. The Students Massacre. Earthquake.

Question 2

What were the demands of the 1968 student movement in Mexico ?

Answer 2

Less police violence, wanted someone to be held accountable, wanted freedom

Question 3

How does Poniatowska’s Massacre in Mexico portray the violence of 1968?

Answer 3

Pictures, pieces of interviews, trying to portray the emotional truth of what happened

Question 4

Explain the tendency throughout Mexico’s history to demolish and rebuilt architecture What does this communicate?

Answer 4

Mexico is recreating their own national identity.

Question 5

What did Mario Pani construct, and what were his goals (and the goals of modernist architecture)?

Answer 5

Wants to do something different. Incorporates ruins and embraces the shared cultures. PR stunt. Incorporated the church, ruins, and modern architect. Embracing it in order to get the new housing complex
Modernist architect- rational, orderly
You can’t ignore the history

Question 6

In the absence of state responses to the Tlatelolco massacre, what role did artistic and literary responses play?

Answer 6

State did not acknowledge that anything happened. No exact number of killings. Shared what happened through art and music. Played role to inform to others what happened and serve as a way to cope