JUST ADDED: CONJUNTO LOS NACOS

I'm pleased to announce that Coagula Curatorial and Narcolandia 2012 have signed the final contracts to fly-in Conjunto Los Nacos for the SEPTEMBER 15th opening. They will be performing a short set at the gallery as part of their Viajes de las Americas Tour.

People get ready

This Sunday August 12th, the Mexican/American Peace Caravan will be entering San Diego from Tijuana go here http://forusa.org/blogs/john-lindsay-poland/peace-caravan-gaining-momentum/10740 to find out more or to get involved. People are trying to make real and meaningful changes where they can...

Cool news. The fine folks at Coagula Curatorial have extended our run at the gallery. Narcolandia will now be up from September 5th - 22nd with a SABADO GIGANTE OPENING on SEPTEMBER 15TH. We will be having special performances, dj's and sopresas that we will be announcing in the coming weeks. Thanks Mat. We will try and make it Coagulossal.

Above is a sample of the work in the show by John Minor. Narcolandia features Los Angeles and San Francisco artists doing their thing on Narco culture, narco corridos and the whole Narcolandia that we find ourselves brushing up against in the news or in real life.

A Meditation...

Rebecca Solnit's apology to Mexico is a meditation on the drug war. It tries to look for the root of the problems, to examine the causes rather than the symptoms and to explain the U.S.' insatiable appetite for every manner of mind altering substances.  It doesn't offer solutions, it doesn't have "the answer" and in that sense it parallels this thing we call Narcolandia.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rebecca-solnit/apologies-to-mexico_b_1661723.html

Real Drug Runners

The bad economy combined with amazing abilities means that Tarahumara Indians are being used to carry drugs across the border in the micro drug economy...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2012/06/24/mexican-drug-war-s-next-victims-tarahumara-indian-runners.html

GREAT NEWS!!!! NARCOLANDIA 2012 WILL BE HAPPENING THE FIRST WEEK OF SEPTEMBER AT COAGULA CURATORIAL IN CHINATOWN. mas detalles to follow...

More bad news

I wish i could post good news in the war on drugs but then that is what things are like in Narcolandia. Looking for hope and most of the time finding tragedy...another journalist disappears...

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/us-journalist-disappears-mexico-drug-cartel-stronghold/story?id=16645695#.T-quMU_VQjw