Re: [-empyre-] Preview May 2008 for on -empyre-: ¿Qué Onda Izquierda? : Artist-social interventions in Latin America

Fri May 2 00:09:57 EST 2008

Hello Christina and all !

Splendid editorial line, congratulations

2008/5/1 Christina McPhee <christina at christinamcphee.net>:

> dear -empyreans-,
>
> Thanks Tim and Renate and the Wired Sustainability participants for April
> 2008.  I really appreciated the vigorous discussion and especially the
> plethora of links and references to new work.  Hope to continue this
> momentum starting  tomorrow as we move into  a new topic--  with a special
> contribution by organizing guest moderators Jennifer Flores Sternad and
> Brian Whitener.  English, Spanish and  (we hope, even) Portuguese posts are
> most welcome!  Welcome, Jennifer and Brian.
>
> -cm
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> ¿Qué Onda Izquierda? : Artist-social interventions in Latin America
>
> http://www.subtle.net/empyre
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> This month's discussion explores  the political potential of creative
> practice and the creativity demanded in social and subjective
> transformation. Our guests are artists, activists, and researchers from
> Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and the US who create and act collectively in
> concert with social movements and in situated struggles against the
> (de)formations of imperialist capital."   With guest moderators Jennifer
> Flores Sternad and Brian Whitener,
>
>
> La discusión de este mes es sobre la potencia política de prácticas
> creativas y de la creatividad que necesita la transformación social.
> Nuestros invitados son artistas, activistas e investigadores de Argentina,
> Brasil, México, y los Estados Unidos, quienes crean y actúan en colectivo
> con movimientos sociales y determinadas luchas contra las (de)formaciones
> del capitalismo imperialista.
>
>
>
> with guests:  Ala Plástica, BijaRi, Etcétera, Fabiane Borges, Ricardo A.
> Bracho, Frente 3 de Fevereiro, Daniel Lima, Felipe Teixeira Gonçalves, La
> Lleca, Eduardo Molinari
>
> ------------------.>Ala Plástica (AR) is an arts and environmental
> organization that works bio-regionally within the nation of Argentina and
> internationally. Their principle concern lies in linking ways of thinking
> and working in the arts to the development of active projects in social and
> environmental arenas.
>
> ------------------->Ala Plástica (AR) es una asociación artística
> ambientalista que trabaja bio-regionalmente, dentro de la nación Argentina
> así como internacionalmente. Su mayor preocupación es relacionar modos de
> pensar y trabajar en las artes para desarrollar proyectos activos en los
> ámbitos sociales y ambientales.
>
> --------------------->BijaRi (BR) is a center for visual arts and
> multimedia creation that proposes artistic experimentation, especially of a
> critical character, by developing projects through diverse resources and
> technologies, including urban interventions, performances, video art,
> design, and web design.
>
> ----------------------->BijaRi (BR) es un centro de creación de artes
> visuales y multimedia con base en San Pablo. Mediante proyectos
> desarrollados en diversos soportes y tecnologías, como intervenciones
> urbanas, performances, videos, diseño y web design, el grupo actúa
> proponiendo experimentaciones artísticas mayormente de carácter crítico.
>
> ----------------------->Etcétera… (AR) was created in 1997 by artists who
> shared a desire to form a group and be part of a movement that would bring
> art into public spaces of social conflict and move social conflicts into
> areas where they had been previously silenced (e.g. the mass media and the
> culture industry's institutions and mega-events.)
>
> ----------------------->Etcétera… (AR) fue creado en 1997 por artistas que
> experimentan colectivamente el deseo de conformar un grupo y ser parte de un
> movimiento con el cual podrían llevar el arte a las calles, a los espacios
> de conflicto social, como así mismo desplazar estos conflictos sociales
> hacia otros espacios en los cuales permanecían silenciados (instituciones
> culturales, medios de comunicación masiva, los mega eventos instalados por
> la industria cultural).
>
> --------------------->Fabiane Borges (BR) researches the language of
> performance and politics.  She is a media and communication activist who
> works with genders, transgenders, and technology and she organizes public
> artistic events with social movements and organizations, such as those
> related to prostitution, indigenous groups, and the anti-psychiatry
> movement.
>
> ---------------->Fabiane Borges (BR) é pesquisadora da linguagem da
> performance e politica é ativista de mídia e comunicação; atua com gêneros,
> transgêneros e tecnologia. Organiza eventos de arte pública junto a vários
> segmentos sociais, como luta antimanicomial, prostituição, povos indígenas e
> outros.
>
> ------------------.Ricardo A. Bracho (US) is a playwright based in Los
> Angeles who is the birth product of Third World Brain Drain and Mexican
> immigrant Marxist-Leninism.
>
> ------------------->Ricardo A. Bracho (US) es dramaturgo arraigado en Los
> Ángeles quien es un producto de la fuga de cerebro del tercero mundo y de
> marxismo-leninismo mexicano inmigrante.
>
> --------------------->Jennifer Flores Sternad (US) is a writer, curator,
> and educator who has been engaged since 2001 in an investigation on militant
> art practice in the US and Latin America since 2001.
>
> ----------------------->Jennifer Flores Sternad (US) es escritor,
> educatora y curadora independiente. Está realizando desde 2001 una
> investigación sobre prácticas artísticas militantes en los Estados Unidos y
> América latina.
>
> --------------------->Frente 3 de Fevereiro [February 3rd Front] (BR) is a
> research and artistic intervention group concerned with racism in Brazilian
> society. The group's artistic interventions create new forms of protest
> pertaining to racial issues and connects with the artistic legacy of
> generations that created new ways to interact with urban space in light of
> the history of the Afro-Brazilian struggle and resistance.
>
> --------------------->A Frente 3 de Fevereiro (BR) é um grupo de pesquisa
> e intervenção artística acerca do racismo na sociedade brasileira. As
> intervenções artísticas criam novas formas de manifestação sobre as questões
> raciais. Associa o legado artístico de gerações que pensaram maneiras de
> interagir com o espaço urbano à histórica luta e resistência da cultura
> afro-brasileira.
>
> ------------->Daniel Lima (BR) is an artist whose work with the
> collectives Frente 3 de Fevereiro and Política do Impossível [Politics of
> the Impossible] develops investigations pertaining to media, racial issues,
> and educational processes. His visual-sculptural interventions and
> interferences in the São Paulo metropolis engender unexpected situations
> that potentially disrupt urban everyday life.
>
> ------------------>Daniel Lima (BR) es artista que se vale de recursos
> plásticos para crear situaciones inesperadas y potencialmente
> desestructurantes de la cotidianeidad urbana de la metrópolis de San Pablo
> muy ligado a producciones colectivas. Actualmente investiga problemas
> relacionados con los medios de comunicación, cuestiones raciales y procesos
> educativos en dos diferentes grupos Frente 3 de Fevereiro  y Política do
> Impossível.
>
> ----------------------->Felipe Teixeira Gonçalves (BR) researches and
> works on questions of racism in Brazilian society by way of urban
> interventions as a member of the collective Frente 3 de Fevereiro. He is
> currently a Master student in International Political Economy at the Federal
> University of Rio de Janeiro.
>
> --------------------->Felipe Teixeira Gonçalves (BR) pesquisa y trabaja
> con las cuestiones del racismo en la sociedad brasileña por medio de
> intervenciones urbanas como un miembro del colectivo Frente 3 de Fevereiro.
> Es un estudiante de Maestria en Economia Política Internacional en la
> Universidad Federal de Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).
>
> ------------------>Bill Kelley, Jr. (US) is a Los Angeles based educator,
> independent curator and critic. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in
> Contemporary Theory and Criticism from the University of California, San
> Diego where his current research focuses on contemporary collaborative art
> practices.
>
> ------------------->Bill Kelley, Jr. (US) es educador, curador
> independiente y crítico de arte, y vive en Los Angeles. Está realizando su
> doctorado en Teoría y Crítica Contemporánea en la University of California
> San Diego (UCSD), e investiga sobre colaboración en las prácticas artísticas
> contemporáneas.
>
> ----------------------->La Lleca is an artist-social intervention that
> takes place within the prison system of Mexico City as an attempt to develop
> methods of intervening into it and for generating collaborative knowledges
> about it. It was founded in 2004 by Lorena Mendez and Fernando Fuentes.
>
> ---------------------->La Lleca es una intervención social-artístico que
> toma lugar adentro del sistema carcelario de la Cuidad de México fundido en
> 2004 por Lorena Méndez y Fernando Fuentes. Es un intento de desarrollar
> nuevas herramientas de transformación social y de intervención artístico.
>
> ----------------------->Eduardo Molinari (AR) is an artist and educator
> whose work is based in walking as an artistic practice and in research that
> uses artistic methods. In 2001 he founded the Walking Archive [Archivo
> Caminante], a growing visual archive that investigates relations between
> art, politics and history to propose critical readings of official
> historical narratives.
>
> -------------------->Eduardo Molinari (AR) es artista y docente
> universitario; su obra otorga fundamental importancia al andar como práctica
> artística y a la investigación a través de métodos artísticos. En el año
> 2001 funda el Archivo Caminante, archivo visual en progreso que indaga las
> relaciones entre arte, política e historia, proponiendo una lectura crítica
> de las narrativas históricas oficiales.
>
> ------------------->Brian Whitener is a writer, researcher, translator,
> and member of the collective project La Lleca. Since 2005 he has undertaken
> an investigation on new political and artistic movements in Latin America
> and autonomist political theory.
>
> --------------------->Brian Whitener es un escritor, investigador,
> traductor y integrante al proyecto La Lleca. Desde 2005 ha llevado a cabo
> una investigación sobre nuevos movimientos políticas y artísticos en America
> Latina y la teoría política autonomista.
>
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