Tzimtzuntzan, el lugar de los
colibríes -- otra vez / Tzintzuntzan, place of the
hummingbords -- again, Museo de
Arte Contemporáneo-Alfredo Zalce. Edited and
designed by Brenda J. Brown. Published by ESTAMPAS,
distributed beyond Mexico by University Press of Florida.
Bilingual (Spanish and English). 128 pages. Documenta of
project and exhibited works with eight essays: INAH
archaeologists Jasinto Robles-Camacho and Arturo
Oliveros-Morales discuss the Tzintzuntzan site in terms of its
archeological significance; Rodrigo Sigal, director, Centro
Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras (CMMAS)
writes about the persistent efforts necessary to realize an
artistic vision; Brenda Brown and Roberto-Lindig-Cisneros,
co-chairs of the Tzintzuntzan Hummingbird Habitat Working
Group, conceptually and temporally
anchor the project in this reproduction of
their 2011 project proposal; ecologist Susan Galatowitsch
(University of Minnesota) puts the Tzintzuntzan project into a
global perspective, highlighting its unique natural and
cultural connections and their significance given the
importance given to cultural services in ecological
restoration by the United Nations Millennium Ecosystem
Assessment; restoration ecologist Roberto Lindig-Cisneros
and ornithologist Jorge Schondube (both of Centro de
Investigaciones en Ecosistemas [CIECO] at the Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México [UNAM]) discuss their
considerations of birds and plants in recreating habitat;
ecologists Consuelo Bonfil (UNAM), Daniela
Fernández y Fernández (Director, Botanical
Garden, Taxco, Guerrero), Mario González-Espinosa (El
Colegio de la Frontiera Sur), survey past and present Mexican
ecological restoration and ongoing related research; Brenda J.
Brown gives an account of the project's inception and the
evolution of the exhibited work; art historian Andrea Silva
Cadena (Universidad de Michoacana de San Nicolás)
considers the exhibition in the light of the Plancarte Codex, a
pictographic, post-Hispanic document by indigenous people
recounting a mythological journey through ancient
Purépecha territory; composer Richard Festinger (San
Francisco State University) discusses Brenda Brown's work with
landscapes as/of sound, particularly works he has experienced
and on which he has collaborated; architect Robert B. Riley,
(Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign) interviews Brenda Brown about the
Tzintzuntzan project and her work over the past 30 years.
