[Reader-list] CORRECTION: MEXICAN NEW MEDIA ART ON THE 17th

[vivek at sarai.net]

PLEASE NOTE THE LECTURE HAS BEEN CHANGED: 17TH OF NOVEMBER AND NOT ON THE
18TH.

Lecture by Rubén Gutiérrez on new media art in México and the
management of private cultural spaces

“In the absence of recombination”

Time: 16:00hrs
Date: THURSDAY 17TH NOVEMBER 2005
Venue: School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium
Jawaharlal Nehru University


Ruben Gutierrez is a multidisciplinary artist and founder and director of
Object Not Found project room, an independent non-profit organization in
the Monterrey a city close to the border of México and United States of
America, whose mission is to promote the knowledge and appreciation of
contemporary art
through the RESEARCH, PRODUCTION, and EXHIBITION of intertextual objects.

In the absence of recombination, Ruben Gutierrez will present a selection
of videos by Mexican artists; these groups represent a new up and coming
generation, product of many crises during the seventies and eighties in
México. They are characterized by their cynicism towards the
establishment and sardonic sense of humor, which pervades in many of their
works.

These talents create their artwork engulfed in an environment permeated by
foreign influences, notions of “globalization” and the request of
years under economic and political crisis in México mass media and new
technologies ad new flavor and raise up new problems in the work they
present.

3er1/5 colectivo, a group of artists from Monterrey, Mexico, embody their
aesthetic, politic and philosophical qualms through the intervention of
architectonic sites. most of their works are hard to classify or document,
since they are related to the alteration of public and private spaces.
Most of their “interventions” deal with notions of space, mass
organization, perception and solitude, appealing to the collective soul.

Gustavo Artigas deal with concepts like game and disaster, his videos are
registers of much elaborated actions and performances that intend to
create rarefied atmospheres to the audience.

Also the program include a selection of international artists that had
shows at
Object Not Found project room. .A selection of six artists, which had
expressed their concerns about today’s world in a Mexican context..

 In “The scenes from next week” Andrew Demirjian shows simple daily
things, such as doing the dishes, and bringing the garbage outside, under
a upbeat melody mimicking the soap opera announcements and questioning
the impact of such on our lives.
 Mariam Ghani critics in her “How do you see the disappeared?” the US
Immigration policy. In this work, she addresses several cases of people
who for
an unclear reason have been detained, and making the often randomness used
by the IRS even more clear by pointing out her personal situation: born in
America from a Pakistan mother and an Afghanistan father, she carriers an
US passport, but isn’t be able to re-enter the US without being
questioned.

The work of Mathieu Borysevicz shows a little hope in a country that has been
terrorized by wars: Rwanda. Showing young children singing and laughing,
welcoming a group of ‘red-cross-workers’. Sadly enough, this hope is
just for a
short moment, as the war continues and the end isn’t nearby.


 After September 11 Tony Cokes made a series of videos that related to the
articles appearing in the New York Times about terrorism and the
information on
the current situation in Afghanistan. He compares the pieces with articles
from
early dates. It is surprising to see the similarities in wording of the
issues
concerning the Middle East.

 “Feast. Homage a Marcel Broodthaers” is a work by Lislelot van der
Heijden.
She thinks that in a time when people have to watch what they  say, it is
more interesting to watch what is said by what is not said. The work
juxtaposes a series of statements – “this has nothing to do with
oil,” “a vulture is not an eagle” and “this is not political”
– with a continuous video loop showing a close-up of a group of vultures
ferociously fighting to seize a bite.

“Patriot Act” by Robert Boyd takes a global sampling of iconic leaders
of the Left and Right since World War II. The work is about the men who
lead and the people who adore them – without question, without fall,
time and again throughout the course of history.



Artist List
Gustavo Artigas
Gonzalo Lebrija
Mauricio Alejo
Colectivo 3er 1/5
Isaac Muñoz
Maria Alos
Mathieu Borysevicz
Robert Boyd
Tony Cokes
Andrew Demirjian
Mariam Ghani
Liselot van der Heijden

This lecture is brought to you in collaboration with the Embassy of Mexico













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