Lecture by Rubén Gutiérrez on new media art in México and the management
of private cultural spaces
Time: 16:00hrs
Date: Friday 18th November 2005
Venue: School of Arts and Aesthetics Auditorium
Jawaharlal Nehru University
New Delhi
Rubén Gutiérrez (1972) is a multidisciplinary Mexican artist and founder
and director of Object Not Found project room, an independent non-profit
organization in the Monterrey, 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, Rubén Gutiérrez 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, México, 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 includes 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 an
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.
With the support of:
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