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

Christina McPhee christina at christinamcphee.net
Fri May 2 01:59:36 EST 2008


Yes, I am very happy Jennifer and Brian can join us!

c


On May 1, 2008, at 7:09 AM, Aliette Guibert-Certhoux wrote:
> 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
>
> ----------------------------
>
> ¿Qué Onda Izquierda? : Artist-social interventions in Latin America
>
> http://www.subtle.net/empyre
>
>
> 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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