Dead People Whispering to Us

A poetic, "necropolitical" view of sociality in Mexico
Moving across a range of sites and situations, Dead People Whispering to Us is a book of stealth, where the author's listening-writing practice attends to the disappearances and invisibilities shaping much of contemporary life. Author and artist Israel Martínez writes his own book of the dead, chronicling the necropolitical reality in Mexico through a persistent belief in social change realized between friends and strangers. The dead, for Martínez, become guides toward a form of poetic activism.
Israel Martínez is an artist and author based in Zapopan, Mexico. Seeking to generate a social and political critical reflection, and often exploring stealth as a communicative situation of deep relevance, Israel Martínez works with sound as a starting point to create pieces and projects usually materialized in multichannel audio installations, video, photography, actions or performances, texts, publications and interventions in public spaces. He has had solo and group exhibitions at Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, MuseumsQuartier, MACBA, Moscow Biennale, TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, daadgalerie, Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, Museo Arte Carrillo Gil, MUCA Roma and Museo de Arte de Zapopan, among others.