Domestic Product (2013)
Photo by Manolo Lugo, 2013.
Domestic Product is a transdisciplinary research-creation project that investigates my family’s time spent living in Guatemala in the 1980s and 90s during the country’s internal armed conflict, and explores convergences of expatriate, settler, and Indigenous Maya cultures of the Lake Atitlán region. The first in a trilogy of works about memory, politics, and embodiment in contemporary Guatemala, Domestic Product used my father’s 35mm slides taken in 1986 - 1991, Super 8 film that I shot upon returning to Santiago Atitlan for the first time in 20 years, live narration, and sound collage in a live multi-projector performance and a film-based gallery installation.
All photos by Manolo Lugo, 2013.