‘Ukari Wa’utsika’ (Women’s Stories)

By Susie Vickery, Jennie Gamlin and the Indigenous community of Tuapurie, Mexico
The short animated film ‘Ukari Wa’utsika’ is a collaboration between textile artist Susie Vickery, EIA team member Jennie Gamlin and the Indigenous community of Tuapurie, Mexico. It tells the story of how Wixárika women’s lives changed forever as they came into contact with Spanish missionaries, travellers, anthropologists and the Mexican state and is illustrated with yarn paintings, animated embroidery figures, historical documents and photographs. The film is narrated in Wixárika language with soundtracks by Wixárika musicians.

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Susie Vickery is an internationally known textile artist who has worked for more than 20 years on theatre and film animations, exhibited her work globally and collaborated with academics, NGOs and artists. This collaboration with Jennie Gamlin builds on their previous work with Indigenous Wixárika communities in Mexico on gender and maternal health. Jennie Gamlin of the UCL based EIA team, has worked with Wixárika communities since 2009 and co-produced this film with Public Engagement funding from the Wellcome Trust to accompany the research project ‘Gender, Health and the afterlife of colonialism. Engaging new problematisations to improve maternal and infant survival’. Susie and Jennie worked closely with members of the Wixárika community of Tuapurie who produced the yarn paintings, narrated the story in Wixárika and provided the musical sound track.

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