ABSTRACT
Bodily practices and the aesthetics of the everyday, for the Zapatistas, are never removed from politics. Zapatistas have taken over the functions associated with 'state-systems'—health care, education, management of resources, its self-defense and control of its territory. The Zapatistas inhabit the Mayan's age-old system of equivalences, deep-rooted connectivity, and mutual recognition. The party was part of a major redirection in the Zapatistas' camino largo, or long road, towards autonomy. In addition to the party, the Zapatistas had organized the first session of the escuelita, or little school, for those who wanted to stay with the Zapatistas for a week and learn about their ways of living politics. Chiapas provides a remarkable arena to study art and resistance for several reasons, most notably because the Zapatistas' are the experts on resistance. The Zapatistas' vulnerability has been structurally imposed and economically organized from colonial times until the present.
