ACTIVIDAD: Sonido: Grabación de mensajes con altavoces/ megáfonos utilizados en manifestaciones/plantones. Aparecen en el arte digital.

Recording of significant messages from demonstrations to be used in the digital art. Translations below.

Grabación con megáfonos/Recording with megaphones

Las mujeres no parimos ni forjamos hijos e hijas para la guerra. Women do not give birth or shape sons and daughters for war.

El cuerpo de las mujeres no es botín de guerra. Women’s bodies are not the spoils of war.

Ni guerra que nos destruya, ni paz que nos oprima. No war that destroys us; no peace that oppresses us.

Ni la guerra ni el hambre han destruido nuestra dignidad. Neither war nor hunger have destroyed our dignity.

Mis derechos no se negocian. My rights are not negotiable.

Mi cuerpo primer territorio de paz. My body; the first territory of peace.

Justicia. Justice.

Para la vida todo, para la muerte nada. For life, everything; for death, nothing.

Una vida sin violencia y en paz, es un derecho fundamental de las mujeres. A life without violence and in peace, is a fundamental women’s right.

Las mujeres estamos rompiendo el silencio. Women are breaking the silence.

Mientras que una mujer sea victimizada y violentada, como mujer siento lo que se le hace. While a woman is victimized and raped, as a woman I feel what she experiences.

Nada sobre nosotras sin nosotras. Nothing about us, without us.

Las mujeres son sujetas políticas con derechos. Women are political subjects with rights.

Este cuerpo es mío, no se viola no se mata. This body is mine: it is not be raped or killed.

Dejar vivir a las niñas y niños en paz. Let girls and boys live in peace.

Hallar nuevas palabras, crear nuevos métodos. Find new words, create new ways.

Un mundo libre de miedos y de violencias. A world free of fear and violence.

Sin la voz de las mujeres, la verdad es incompleta. Without women’s voices, the truth is incomplete.

Que defender los derechos y la dignidad no signifique la muerte. Defending your rights and dignity, should not mean death.

Las mujeres como sujeto colectivo de construcción de paz. Women as collective subjects of peace building.

Las mujeres queremos ser pactantes, no pactadas. Women want to take part in agreements., not have decisions made for us.

Recorrer los relatos en los cuerpos, voces, testimonios y exigencias de las mujeres. Experience women’s stories through their bodies, voices, testimonies and their needs.

No fuiste la única, a mí también me pasó. You were not the only one, it happened to me too.

Las mujeres protagonistas de la reconstrucción social y política de Colombia. Women: protagonists of Colombia’s  social and political reconstruction.

Conocer la verdad es mi derecho. Knowing the truth is my right.

RELATOS a través de OBJETOS / Storytelling through objects (extractos/excerpts)

La audio documentación de estos relatos se puede explorar también a través de la pieza interactiva. These audio extracts, gathered from the women’s stories through an object, can also be explored in the digital art.

Enlace a transcripciones en español. Click to link to translation of excerpts into English (in new tab).

Re-victimized, Women, Black, kicked us from our territories, access to work, displaced, without husbands, give birth to children, look after the family, ancestors transmit customs, subjugation, violence, not doing with the body what I do not want, to remain silent is to accept, invite other women to speak, discrimination, proud to be black, resilience, change for family and communities, thanks to the peaceful route, identity, culture, resistance, I am not ashamed of my hair, nor my culture.
Her childhood, village, father, land, fishing, without land, without fish,  without food, girl labour exploitation
Improve, mouse, computer, possibility, horror movie, die or move on, help, Ruta Pacifica de las Mujeres, two children, violence, raped, minor treatment, kidnapping, mute, displacement, victimised by the state, raped by surrogate father, technologist.
Meaning of the bandana, resilience, recognition as black women-women who were slaves-women’s social struggles-subdued-braids mean the way to freedom, slavery-temptation for slavers-conflict-black women subjected in the midst of conflict.
Two displacements, they took my two children, false positive, first cousin, killed and covered with branches, I was proud of my children, the army killed two of them, one feel is not entitled to anything, sadness, rage, justice is not done, some do anything to win medals, money and holidays.
Muertes, persecución, familia, injusticia, mendigar, miedo, dolor, asesinato,  seguir luchando, ley
 
Deaths, persecution, family, injustice, begging, fear, pain, murder, keep on fighting, law
Newspaper’s clippings- fighting for my son- threats- I never kept quiet -public exposure- order to exhume the body- when he was killed he was 25 years old
Victim, working for other women- sharing-it wasn’t until I felt I was a victim, that I was able to transform my life and that of others.
Guerrilla, guerrillas, paramilitary, the slaughter, we bought fish in bulk, left the farm, left the cattle, overcoming fear, demonstrations.

Missing son, suspicion, doubt the body handed to me was that of my son- son thrown into a pasture land.
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