[nettime-lat] NO ESCAPE/MEDIA DISSONANCE - Mexican Artists in Brooklyn

["ricardo dominguez" <rdom@thing.net>]

__ NO ESCAPE/MEDIA DISSONANCE
__ Video Screening at Ocularis
__ Book Release Party-- FELIX RISK/RIESGO

Sunday, May 18th at 7 PM
Galapagos Art & Performance Space
70 North 6th Street (between Wythe and Kent)
Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY 11211
http://www.ocularis.net/


Three award winning Mexican media artists, Ximena Cuevas, Ricardo
Nicolayevsky and Fabiola Torres, present brand new video works.

Utilizing a harsh reworking of media images these works look at cultural
icons and images positioning them in absurdist realms and point to our
obsessions and distractions.

This screening is a preview of the upcoming Mexican/U.S. issue of FELIX: A
Journal of Media Arts and Communication entitled RISK/RIESGO.

RISK/RIESGO includes writings and artist pages by over 60 artists and looks
at ways artists push the boundaries. As examples of artists who participated
in the publication (Cuevas and Nicolayevsky were Guest Editors of
RISK/RIESGO) these artists' works are enticing and playful. Screening will
include works such as "Mexican Film for Dumbies"/Nicolayevsky,
"Movieland"/Cuevas, "Rabbit in the Woods"/FX and "Spiderman"/FX.

Cuevas, Nicolayevsky and Torres are all obsessed with the micro movements of
daily life, with the border between truth and fiction, with the
"impossibility" of reality. Their work relentlessly seeks out the layers of
lies covering the everyday representations of reality and systematically
explores the fictions of national identity, sexuality and gender and the
fact that we are under  the conquest of the media.

Running time 50 minutes. Curated by K. High

// Program \\

MEXICAN CINEMA FOR DUMMIES, by Ricardo Nicolayevsky, Video, 2001-2002,
(15:20 min.)

THE BIG WHACK, by Ricardo Nicolayevsky, 16 mm. Film (found footage/own
footage) /Video, 2002,  (2:30 min.)

LA TOMBOLA, by Ximena Cuevas, Video, 2001 (7:00 min.)

CINEPOLIS/MOVIELAND, by Ximena Cuevas, Video, 2003 (22 min.)

RABBIT IN THE FOREST, by FX, Video, 2002 (1:30 min.)

SPIDERMAN, by FX, Video, 2002 (2 min.)

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__ Book release -- FELIX RISK/RIESGO

We are pleased to announce the release of RISK/RIESGO - the latest issue of
FELIX: A Journal of Media Arts and Communication, a publication of critical
writings by media artists published by the Standby Program.

Edited by Kathy High, with guest editors Ximena Cuevas, Roberto Lopez, and
Jesse Lerner, RISK/RIESGO is an exchange between U.S. and Mexican media
artists in the form of writings and graphic works. As the first bilingual
(Spanish/English) issue of FELIX, RISK/RIESGO will provide a resource to
both Mexican and U.S. artists for discussion of media work and working
strategies.

Participating artists include:
Animal Charm, Gustavo Artigas, Ursula Biemann, Bignoise Films, Mariana
Botey, Pablo Boneu, Natalie Britos, Nao Bustamante, Miguel Caldéron, Paul
Chan, Chilango, Abigail Child, Archangel Constantini, Minerva Cuevas,
Ricardo  Dominguez, Ivan Edeza, Christa Erickson, Carolina Esparragoza,
Simin  Farkhondeh,  Rita Gonzalez, Marco Granados, Sylvia Gruner,
BarbaraHammer, Dante Hernandez, Louis Hock, Adriene Jenik, Art Jones,
Miranda July, Fernando Llanos, Chip Lord, Príamo Lozado, Rafael
Lozano-Hemmer, Teresa Margolles, Carlos Martínez Suárez, Jimena Mendoza,
Branda Miller, Liz Miller,  Miguel Monroy, Richard Moszka, Ricardo
Nicolayevsky, Hector Pacheco, Paulina  del Paso, POCHO, Carl Pope, Lourdes
Portillo, ClaudiaPrado, Vincente  Razo, Alex Rivera, Alberto Roblest, RT
Mark, Alfredo Salomon, Santiago Sierra, Shelly Silver, Ho Tam, Rafael
Tonatiuh, Fabiola Torres, Ruben Ortiz Torres,  Naomi Uman, Willie Varela,
Gustavo Vazquez, Andres Villalobos, Matt Wolf, and Lorena Wolffer.


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