Thursday, March 15, 2012
Solicitating Backlash: Vogue Italia
Here's the link to the Vogue Italia article discussing the appropriation and discordant glamorization of poor, urban women of color:
http://jezebel.com/5891683/new-vogue-italia-story-pokes-fun-at-poor-blacks-and-latinas-seems-kinda-racist/gallery/1
http://jezebel.com/5891683/new-vogue-italia-story-pokes-fun-at-poor-blacks-and-latinas-seems-kinda-racist/gallery/1
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Tuesday, March 13, 2012
performance on wednesday 2-3pm
solicitation
Dear all,
I am solicitating a friend, who I know since I was 16 till today, to bring back and fill in the blanks of certain memories of my teenage years. the process of remembering is happening in a performative bilingual telephone conversation at the collaboration space (…studio) on Wednesday between 2-3pm.
the second part of the solicitation is asked from the volunteer audience to participate in providing feedback. there will be flash cards provided with the expected key words of the conversation on them. you are asked to provide written feedback according to the word on your flash card.
Dear all,
I am solicitating a friend, who I know since I was 16 till today, to bring back and fill in the blanks of certain memories of my teenage years. the process of remembering is happening in a performative bilingual telephone conversation at the collaboration space (…studio) on Wednesday between 2-3pm.
the second part of the solicitation is asked from the volunteer audience to participate in providing feedback. there will be flash cards provided with the expected key words of the conversation on them. you are asked to provide written feedback according to the word on your flash card.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Sunday, March 11, 2012
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Sean's Movie
Here's Sean's project space movie link:
http://www.youtube.com/user/
Maybe others are interested in getting together sometime to make other
little movies. We seem to have some resources.
http://www.youtube.com/user/
Maybe others are interested in getting together sometime to make other
little movies. We seem to have some resources.
Friday, March 9, 2012
Pasajes del libro El concepto infinitivo de la creación cosmico X Semilla guerilla (de las "Breves de primavera")
(The following text mixes passages translated from a book titled The Infinite Concept of Cosmic Creation, with an article reporting on an event/workshop organized in conjunction with a friend's urban gardening class at La Casa de la Cultura de Playas de Tijuana, in the Spring of 2011...possibly, a reading of the text may serve as a voice-over, to construct something of a "news report," to accompany a video recording from the event.)
Ahora, estamos reportando en un bombardeo aéreo, que sucedió en marzo 2011. Fue en la tarde del sábado, el 12 de marzo, que el bombardeo fue logrado, y pasara desapercibido entre la opinión pública y los medios de comunicación.
Según fuentes que solicitaron el anonimato, el Homeland Security Department estuvo pendiente del bombardeo esperando que le engordase el caldo en su afán por construir una política de muros su pretexto de la inseguridad y el terrorismo, pero contrario a las expectativas, el dicho departamento decidió acallar el incidente debido a la naturaleza de los materiales usados por los perpetradores así como por el origen civil y binacional de los mismos.
Podemos comenzar por decir--que de todos de los virtudes, que son implantados en el ciclo de vida de cada individual, la más noble es que se podía llamar la compasión. La compasión es motivado por las fuerzas más poderosas del ser interior. Por su parte, a esta redacción llegó un comunicado de los rebeldes Guerrilla Semilla, Cooperativa Orgánica y otros grupos activistas, quienes anunciaron una exitosa operación de bombardeo aéreo coordinada desde el lado mexicano de la malla fronteriza en la zona conocida como Friendship Park / Jardín Binacional de Plantas Nativas / Parque del Mar.
La problema de la curación, siempre, debe ser realizado en sus proporciones y intensidades máximas, antes de podemos esperar a visualizar los cambios en nuestro medio ambiente. En vez de recurrir al narcotráfico para allegarse miles de dólares que les permitiesen comprar aviones u otras naves para realizar el bombardeo, echaron mano de técnicas más ancestrales como la de los cometas o papalotls y a materiales más livianos como el de las bolsas de plástico (que se encuentran en abundancia en el Estuario del Río Tijuana) que ha sido reconocido por su resistencia, pues se ha comprobado que no será destruido nunca.
Así, convocaron a una acción cooperativa de construcción de papalotes que reunió a varias docenas de civiles, quienes se dieron a la tarea de fabricar, cargar municiones y pilotear los bombarderos que dejaron caer varias docenas de bombasemillas en la frontera. La Guerrilla Semilla espera que las explosiones de color contribuyan con la caída del muro divisorio entre el primer y tercer mundos. Se dice que las lluvias que se avecinan este fin de semana iniciarán con el proceso. Seguiremos informando.
Thursday, March 8, 2012
El piso/la pared/las ventanas. (1 objeto perdido)
(re: "...every time you think a thought, because you stop thinking about it doesn't necessarily mean that the thought has ceased to exist...")
Monday, March 5, 2012
Sean's Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3rOCsxJRzo&context=C30cc417ADOEgsToPDskKgOrPwxKiqGwrxDfrdvMou
Thursday, March 1, 2012
Re: "...contra la tropicalización, adaptación."
From an article composed by Ricardo Arana Camarena (of la Co-operativa orgánica/El zorro de la mesa/Proyecto Fronterizo de Educación Ambiental) and published through El zorro de la mesa (web2.0 news publication started in delegación La Mesa, part of Diego de la Vega cooperative media conglomerate).
In reference to an informally developed garden project, occupying a plot of land which is blanketed by a network of jurisdictional authorities (i.e. 50 meters north of the jardín binacional de las plantas nativas, land is managed by cohort including the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, California State Parks, and the National Oceanic and Atmospherie Administration (the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve and Border Field State Park). Land immediately north of (and including part of) the garden is under the watch of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection; El parque del mar (the site where a large portion of the garden is located) is under the jurisdiction of the delegación de Playas de Tijuana.):
"...la idea de que ahora todas las plantas del jardín sean plantas nativas es importante, pues la gran mayoría de los tijuanenses desconocen los tipos de flora originales de la región como el Matorral Costero Californiano y otros. La importancia responde, evidentemente, a las tareas de educación, conservación y reparación ambiental que llevan a cabo estos grupos a lo ancho de la península. Es paradójico que en el lado estadounidense haya una zona de conservación para el Estuario del Río Tijuana y que el jardín de plantas nativas no pueda prosperar fácilmente y no por causas naturales sino más bien políticas; y que en el lado mexicano este tipo de jardín prospere en una zona en la que la planeación urbana recurre a los clichés 'costeros' de las palmeras y los malecones y la oferta comercial se reduce casi en su totalidad al coco helado y los tacos de mariscos."
In the passage above, Ricardo describes some of the complexities of the site, related, in part to distinct goals of each jurisdictional authority (e.g "(to) preserve, protect, and manage natural and cultural resources” in the case of the cohort managing the TRNERR; to “secure the homeland,” in the case of the CBP; to ensure the well being of residents of the delegación + to promote economic development, primarily through tourism, in the case of the autoridades presiding over El Parque del Mar).
There have been many moments, where spaces forming the (municipal) region (from Rosarito to Los Angeles) have been designed to materialize a mythic "sub-tropical" landscape (with the import of Carpobrotus edulis and Washgintia robusta, among other "exotic" plant species). Albeit, the existing landscape is often referred to as a "desert," allowing space for the enactment of (environmentally as well as culturally problematic/destructive) development practices. The conceptual reconstitution of the Californian Coastal Sage Scrub habitat as "Desert" (waiting to be developed or "used" or exoticized) seems like a contemporary analogue to the re-constitution of the space as a (vacuous/uninhabited) desert to attract "settlers" to the area in the late 19th century.
To allure through possibilities presented by an available space" (the "desert"); alternatively, to allure through the fabrication of an "exotic" environ (the "sub-tropical")...the oscillation between the two strategies to "allure" (to "attract investment"). To allure, as coupled with erasure (erasure that is selectively obscured).
In reference to an informally developed garden project, occupying a plot of land which is blanketed by a network of jurisdictional authorities (i.e. 50 meters north of the jardín binacional de las plantas nativas, land is managed by cohort including the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, California State Parks, and the National Oceanic and Atmospherie Administration (the Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve and Border Field State Park). Land immediately north of (and including part of) the garden is under the watch of the U.S. Customs and Border Protection; El parque del mar (the site where a large portion of the garden is located) is under the jurisdiction of the delegación de Playas de Tijuana.):
"...la idea de que ahora todas las plantas del jardín sean plantas nativas es importante, pues la gran mayoría de los tijuanenses desconocen los tipos de flora originales de la región como el Matorral Costero Californiano y otros. La importancia responde, evidentemente, a las tareas de educación, conservación y reparación ambiental que llevan a cabo estos grupos a lo ancho de la península. Es paradójico que en el lado estadounidense haya una zona de conservación para el Estuario del Río Tijuana y que el jardín de plantas nativas no pueda prosperar fácilmente y no por causas naturales sino más bien políticas; y que en el lado mexicano este tipo de jardín prospere en una zona en la que la planeación urbana recurre a los clichés 'costeros' de las palmeras y los malecones y la oferta comercial se reduce casi en su totalidad al coco helado y los tacos de mariscos."
In the passage above, Ricardo describes some of the complexities of the site, related, in part to distinct goals of each jurisdictional authority (e.g "(to) preserve, protect, and manage natural and cultural resources” in the case of the cohort managing the TRNERR; to “secure the homeland,” in the case of the CBP; to ensure the well being of residents of the delegación + to promote economic development, primarily through tourism, in the case of the autoridades presiding over El Parque del Mar).
There have been many moments, where spaces forming the (municipal) region (from Rosarito to Los Angeles) have been designed to materialize a mythic "sub-tropical" landscape (with the import of Carpobrotus edulis and Washgintia robusta, among other "exotic" plant species). Albeit, the existing landscape is often referred to as a "desert," allowing space for the enactment of (environmentally as well as culturally problematic/destructive) development practices. The conceptual reconstitution of the Californian Coastal Sage Scrub habitat as "Desert" (waiting to be developed or "used" or exoticized) seems like a contemporary analogue to the re-constitution of the space as a (vacuous/uninhabited) desert to attract "settlers" to the area in the late 19th century.
To allure through possibilities presented by an available space" (the "desert"); alternatively, to allure through the fabrication of an "exotic" environ (the "sub-tropical")...the oscillation between the two strategies to "allure" (to "attract investment"). To allure, as coupled with erasure (erasure that is selectively obscured).
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Under the Palm Tree 2-28-12
The way of the palm trees. They are form Sonora. They are not native to Baja California.
A ubiquitous jinx of palm trees, of which people may or may not have strong or personal feelings about.
But there was a fungus, and people debated if they should cut the infected down, and replant them.
Eucalyptus is also non-native. Planted to be used for railroad ties, they split during the curing process, rendering them useless.
Exoticism. Realtors. These trees were meant as an invitation, but they don't invite to the origin. They have come to represent a thing they are not.
This is enjoyable. A schlep to get down here, but super productive. Intellectually. Everyone here has interesting ways of interfacing with ideas. Popping off with things we do on our own, and this is temporary. But to anchor our discussion around...like the palm tree. This has a functional quality.
Militarism. Environmental. Mexican border. Exoticism.
Gives us a maypole to dance around. Let's all go around it. What have we been thinking? About the object..? Let's each throw something out there.
Move from slightly more open to slightly more anchored.
::Read Jordan's Email::
Let's do it anyway. Let's make the best possible outcome.
Second proposal? Why convince?
Solidify it. Not interested in convincing.
Keep our ear to the wall.
The solicitation on our part has been made towards the collaboration.
If you form a circle and look out, you can only see yourself. If you form a circle and look in, then you can see what others are doing.
What would it take for us to be extremely present, int he time we have to be present with each other. Let's form the circle, and bring knowledge to the space.
Linking vs. diffusion.
We're good with our trajectory.
There is disappointment.
But there is practicality in their method. It is fine to take and add to your own.
But let them come to us.
There could've been something. Like anything could happen. Completely different conversations.
Every flower has to solicit its pollination. Not a closing. A positive opening that continues to be present.
Frustration.
Come up with something we can all respond to...a centralizing metaphor.
Axis and circles. And where the circles overlap is where the project will occur.
When you move further out on an axis, won't necessarily intersect.
Follow an outline.
We will make constraints.
What did we bring?
Bring our language a little closer together.
Constraint Bullet Points:
- Everyone one will bring an object to the space. There is no limit on type or amount.
-We can interact with the objects out side of the space.
-Utilize an online calendar to collaborate with peers during the time available (Mar. 2-17)
-Objects submitted should be available for alteration, if not explicitly noted otherwise.
-Objects can leave for at time, but must returned before the last two days (Mar 15)
A ubiquitous jinx of palm trees, of which people may or may not have strong or personal feelings about.
But there was a fungus, and people debated if they should cut the infected down, and replant them.
Eucalyptus is also non-native. Planted to be used for railroad ties, they split during the curing process, rendering them useless.
Exoticism. Realtors. These trees were meant as an invitation, but they don't invite to the origin. They have come to represent a thing they are not.
This is enjoyable. A schlep to get down here, but super productive. Intellectually. Everyone here has interesting ways of interfacing with ideas. Popping off with things we do on our own, and this is temporary. But to anchor our discussion around...like the palm tree. This has a functional quality.
Militarism. Environmental. Mexican border. Exoticism.
Gives us a maypole to dance around. Let's all go around it. What have we been thinking? About the object..? Let's each throw something out there.
Move from slightly more open to slightly more anchored.
::Read Jordan's Email::
Let's do it anyway. Let's make the best possible outcome.
Second proposal? Why convince?
Solidify it. Not interested in convincing.
Keep our ear to the wall.
The solicitation on our part has been made towards the collaboration.
If you form a circle and look out, you can only see yourself. If you form a circle and look in, then you can see what others are doing.
What would it take for us to be extremely present, int he time we have to be present with each other. Let's form the circle, and bring knowledge to the space.
Linking vs. diffusion.
We're good with our trajectory.
There is disappointment.
But there is practicality in their method. It is fine to take and add to your own.
But let them come to us.
There could've been something. Like anything could happen. Completely different conversations.
Every flower has to solicit its pollination. Not a closing. A positive opening that continues to be present.
Frustration.
Come up with something we can all respond to...a centralizing metaphor.
Axis and circles. And where the circles overlap is where the project will occur.
When you move further out on an axis, won't necessarily intersect.
Follow an outline.
We will make constraints.
What did we bring?
Bring our language a little closer together.
Constraint Bullet Points:
- Everyone one will bring an object to the space. There is no limit on type or amount.
-We can interact with the objects out side of the space.
-Utilize an online calendar to collaborate with peers during the time available (Mar. 2-17)
-Objects submitted should be available for alteration, if not explicitly noted otherwise.
-Objects can leave for at time, but must returned before the last two days (Mar 15)
OBJECTS
Film with Projector
3 Magazines
Addidas product tag
Large black boots
Light bulb with yellow straw, Speed vaporizer
4 shower caps
4 glass vials, with stoppers
Inflated ballon
red bandana
black fist pick
Miserable IWngs DVD, 2011
CD Is it my body? 1971
Plushie cold turkey leg
"Brick", covered in shrink wrap and duct tape,
Metallic ballons
An essay by Owen Driggs "Visible Progress" short stories of billboards and LA, photograph of the arrival of the Washingtonia Robusta at the Southern Pacific Arcade Station.
3 Magazines
Addidas product tag
Large black boots
Light bulb with yellow straw, Speed vaporizer
4 shower caps
4 glass vials, with stoppers
Inflated ballon
red bandana
black fist pick
Miserable IWngs DVD, 2011
CD Is it my body? 1971
Plushie cold turkey leg
"Brick", covered in shrink wrap and duct tape,
Metallic ballons
An essay by Owen Driggs "Visible Progress" short stories of billboards and LA, photograph of the arrival of the Washingtonia Robusta at the Southern Pacific Arcade Station.
Flora as solic/inv-itation
Flora as an invitation to "occupy" a space (to attract a population to "settle" or "invest" in an "exotic(ized)" location):
Visible Progress: short stories of billboards and Los Angeles, an essay by Janet Owen Driggs
(note: I think this might turn out to be a pretty interesting conversation, if you're interested in topics surrounding the use of flora in the construction of images in support of various imperial projects.)
One contemporary extension/enactment, of the palm (whether Washingtonia Robusta, Euterpe oleracea, et. al.) as solicitation (to develop/inhabit territory), enmeshed in "retórica verde":
Valle de las palmas (+ a Wikipedia article, para aclarar)
Visible Progress: short stories of billboards and Los Angeles, an essay by Janet Owen Driggs
(note: I think this might turn out to be a pretty interesting conversation, if you're interested in topics surrounding the use of flora in the construction of images in support of various imperial projects.)
One contemporary extension/enactment, of the palm (whether Washingtonia Robusta, Euterpe oleracea, et. al.) as solicitation (to develop/inhabit territory), enmeshed in "retórica verde":
Valle de las palmas (+ a Wikipedia article, para aclarar)
Monday, February 27, 2012
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Saturday, February 18, 2012
reading list
Hi all, here is the syllabus with our seminar readings linked
http://vis202artpractice.blogspot.com/
http://vis202artpractice.blogspot.com/
Thursday, February 16, 2012
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