Agamemnon: The Circle of Blood at La MaMa NYC
By Yohanna M. Roa Concept, direction, and performance by Rafika Chawishe Rafika appears in the dim light of the stage, her bodily posture making us feel that she carries on her shoulders the weight of human violence: the intoxicating joy of the hero, the exacerbation of war, the cries of abused women, and the mourning […]
Loop Barcelona 2024
A Celebration of Video Art and Social Transformation Thomas Radin Institut del Teatre. From November 11 to 23, Barcelona became the global epicenter of video art and artists cinema with the 22nd edition of Loop Barcelona, an internationally renowned platform dedicated to exploring the creative possibilities of the moving image. Since its inception in 2003, […]
Networks in Movement: Mobile Coordinates (Mexico, 2024)
Beneath Tides Column By fernanda ramos mena Coordenadas móviles. Redes de colaboración entre mujeres en la cultura y el arte (1975-1985). México: CIEG/UNAM, FIEBRE Ediciones, Project Office, Editorials, 2024. Register by Alessandro Rivera. Reading Mobile Coordinates: Networks of Collaboration Among Women in Culture and Art (1975-1985) is like unfolding a map filled with unexpected paths, […]
Contemporary Art, Unlearning, and Handcrafted Textiles
Interview with Jorge González Santos, visual artistSpoken PortraitBy Daniel Santiago Salguero Leer en Español These are notes from a WhatsApp phone conversation between Bogotá and San Juan, Puerto Rico, which was held despite interruptions caused by lousy weather[1]. Jorge González, Lecturas bajo la cojoba (Readings under the cojoba). 2019. Photo Max Toro Puerto Rico Jorge […]
Mourning Rituals and Archiving Practices Around the Exhibition ¨I Started Painting When My Grandmother Began to Lose Her Memory¨
The Unruled Column By Kekena Corvalán Leer en español Camila Barcellone, Tati Cabral, Kekena Corvalán, Paola Ferraris, Anahí Fiorella Gómez and Celeste Medrano. I want to address our practices of “artchive” as a form of vitality that sustains us and allows us to inhabit memory, celebration, and connection. This reflection arises from the exhibition that […]
Natalia Pastor: Inside Out
Breaking the Gaze Column by Semíramis González No pienso recoger los platos rotos (I’m Not Going To Pick Up The Broken Dishes). 2020. Diptych. Pencil and watercolor on paper. 70 x 100 cm. Leer en español Significantly, the erasure of half the human population has occurred across so many domains of life, including those where […]
Struggles for Art. Map of Relations and Disputes for the Hegemony of Art, 1843-1933
National Museum of Fine Arts of Santiago, Chile: Interview with Curators. The Unruled Column By Kekena Corvalán Leer en español We interviewed Gloria Cortés Aliaga and Eva Cancino Fuentes, the curators of the exhibition Luchas por el Arte. Mapa de Relaciones y Disputas por la Hegemonía del Arte (1843-1933) (Struggles for Art. Map of Relations […]
Feminism Is a Vocabulary That We Can Massage
A conversation between Daniel Santiago Salguero and Jessica Mitrani Spoken Portrait Column Jessica as a performer in María Isabel Rueda’s work Al final del mundo (At the End of the World). 2022Photo by the artist. Jessica Mmmmmiiiiiiiittttrrraaannnniii, she uses her mmmmottttheeeeeeer’ss last name I met Jessica at a María Isabel Rueda[1] performance in Bogotá. which […]
Recollections and Reflections on Collectivity
I am writing this reflection based on my experience with collectives over the course of over forty years, as a situated recollection, perhaps somewhat arbitrary, but coherent with what I have learned from this passage through collectivity: that one can only speak for oneself, and yet the sum of those singular voices, when placed in a horizontal, respectful dialogue, can potentialize the sum of multiple subjectivities in ways that suggest new models of power relations for society.
