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1... Ciclo de Video Arte
artistas puertorriqueños viviendo y trabajando fuera de la isla
Opening- Thursday October 1, 2009
Curated by- myritza castillo
Alia Farid Abdal- Esteban Gabriel
Juntos salimos a flote
video, 4 minutes, 2007
Luis Berrios Negrón
People's Republic of Zpod,
video, 2003
Featuring Eric Adamsons-Bodo
In Collaboration with – José Flores, Mariana Hardy, Yuna Yagi, Ken Ikeda, Daisuke Nishimura, Nobuhiro Awata, Kyoko Oshima, Lealani Ranch, Ruth Chadwick, Ming Chow.
Music by Pablo Casals (live at the White House, courtesy of the JFK Library) and Plastilina Mosh.
Special Appearance by Ada Tolla and Giuseppe Lignano (Lot-ek)
Juntos salimos a flote is the end result of a workshop that was conducted by Alia Farid and Esteban Gabriel as part of a day-long cultural event called La Perla Habla. The event took place on July 1st 2007 in the informal housing settlement of Old San Juan known as La Perla. Its main objective was to draw members of the community to work together towards a common goal– the construction of a floating platform in the shape of a sea monster, which was conceived after having analyzed the site where the workshop would take place. “El monstro marino”, as it was casually referred to by the participants of the workshop, was created as a vessel for exploring the North Atlantic Ocean, which physically bounds residents of La Perla along one side, leaving the community pegged between the affluent city and in one of the corners of the Bermuda Triangle. A history of alleged disappearances in the area has fomented a sense of mystery about what lies beyond the cohort. And it is with the excuse of confronting this sort of obscurity that the workshop took form.
“MEAT-o-C(r)ITY, products for compliance™, has been developing a transportable housing module made of recycled aluminum and dismantled fashion billboards. Our thesis is, inspired by the zipper as a modular system, to utilize the enclave boundaries (the more subtle unseen thresholds between neighborhoods such as El Barrio and Park Avenue North or Chelsea and the West Village) of New York City as sites for the installation of these temporary, androgynous devices. The system is suspended in/between the alleyways of buildings running through entire city blocks. The site we are currently working on is the block between Mott and Mulberry/ Grand and Hester, i.e. between Little Italy and Chinatown. The Z-pod, its program and structure, is based lateral cultural field providing low-cost, comfortable and community oriented housing for newly-arrived sweatshop workers and aspiring supermodels. The presentation/product/performance fits with fashion's dubious placement in consumer culture and its powerful effects on immigration and identity.”
Michelle Gratacós- Arill
Me Deaf in Stockholm
video, 6 minutes, 2008
Rebecca Adorno
“... About Awkward Silences”
video, 2008
Actors: Rebecca Adorno, Asa Gauen
Why deaf? for the past two years Gratacós-Arill have been leaving in Stockholm, Sweden, experiencing a kind of deafness, caused by the linguistic barriers. She didn't talk the native language, Swedish. The conversations, situation and places around the urban city, became abstract and unknown. This experience give her time to contemplate silence. Isolated from the content and meaning of conversations of the everyday life in Stockholm. She decides, to capture these moments of her, walking around the city exploring the site during 12 hours just listening to music in her "shuffle".
Estimula al espectador por medio de imágenes e historias de índole narrativo que podrían o no estar ocurriendo despertando enigmas sin conclusiones aparentes. A partir del silencio, construye un discurso basado entre dos personajes y la relación que ambos puedan tener. Incorpora espacios llenos extraído del vacío. Produce palabras obtenidas del silencio. El vídeo muestra una poética visual y sonora que recae en la memoria y las reminiscencias de una nostalgia latente.