1. Francis Alÿs, When Faith Moves Mountains, 2002, 15′09″, in collaboration with Rafael Ortega and Cuauhtémoc Medina, artist's website, http://francisalys.com/when-faith-moves-mountains/. I wrote about Alÿs's project in context of the third Ibero-American Biennial of Lima (2002), for which it was realized
2. see Dorota Biczel, "On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map: The 'Failure' of the Lima Biennial (1997-2002)," Caiana: Revista de Historia del Arte y Cultura Visual del Centro Argentino de Investigadores de Arte 11 (December 2017), http://caiana.caia.org.ar/template/caiana.php?pag=articles/article_2.php&obj=290&vol=11. The motto widely attributed to Alÿs, "Maximum effort, minimum result," was coined by Mexican curator and critic Cuauhtémoc Medina in the essay published in the monograph on the project: Francis Alÿs, Cuauhtémoc Medina, et al., When Faith Moves Mountains (Madrid: Turner, 2005), 178-80. See also Saul Anton, "A Thousand Words: Francis Alÿs Talks about When Faith Moves Mountains," Artforum 10, no. 40 (2002): 147, and, for a critique, Grant H. Kester, The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), Kindle edition.
3. Dan Collyns, “Chinese Mining Firm to Raze Peruvian Peak for 35 Years of Mineral Wealth,” The Guardian, December 20, 2012, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/dec/20/chinese-mining-peru-corporate-responsibility.
4. For the ongoing assessment of the conflict, consult the reports of Observatorio de Conflictos Mineros en el Perú, http://conflictosmineros.org.pe/.
5. Lucy R. Lippard, Undermining: A Wild Ride through Land Use, Politics, and Art in the Changing West (New York: New Press, 2014).