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
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>
> ¿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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