Category Archives: speaking about Art

EXOTICA LOOM at Fringe! Queer Film and Arts Fest 2013

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Here we go again!

exotica loom fringe

Last year I helped Nuria Camprecios and Lola Clavo producing the performance night with Diana Pornoterrorista that turned out to be a massive success! Here a video to refresh your memory.

This year Lola and I are working together as Exotica Loom curating and producing 2 events:

  • Sunday 14th, closing film of the festival, And You Belong (world premiere), following around queer hip hop band Scream Club + Q&A with director Julia Ostertag moderated by journalist Val Phoenix + live band Plaitum, in a different style from Scream Club but with the same DIY attitude

Also, our short film Corpuscle (that is now in a compilation along Annie Sprinkle and Maria Beatty!) was selected and is screening on Saturday at Steamy Windows!

Special thanks to Nuria Camprecios that was working hard with us but had to go to Barcelona.

So, book your tickets, tell your friends, and we’ll see you there!!

New references after “Environmental Agency: A Landscape Film Programme” at the BFI

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Emily Richardson

emrichardson redshiftRedshift by Emily Richardon

The film has a gentle intensity to it, and is composed of changes of light across the sea, sky and mountains. It shows movement where there is apparent stillness, whether in the formation of weather patterns, movement of stars, the illumination of a building by passing car headlights or boats darting back and forth across the sea’s horizon.

(Some previews at arte.tv)

and Inger Lise Hansen

hus.ingerlisehansenHus by Inger Lise Hansen

- Hus is a film which attempts to reveal the private and hidden layers of our habitation (…) It is a film about time and processes, about disintegration and construction. -In Hus I was interested in physically deconstructing and reconstructing one object. I imagined the house as a shell that separates “private and public spheres”. Through the use of animation I could open up this “shell” and examine it.

(I’ve recently wrote a proposal where I explained something very similar about the “house layers”)

One her incredible upside down landscapes (excerpt from Travelling Fields):

The Sublime, The Infinite and The Internet

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…and the so symbolic anxiety machine of Blind Mist: “Every three seconds, you have the chance to see something new, to go somewhere that you have never been before. Every three seconds, you can watch that chance disappear, and feel the tiny violence of ignoring someone online. Try watching it without clicking; it’s a terrible thing to do to yourself, a self-flagellation for the new century.”

The whole very interesting article and links here.

Physicality of sound

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A video about deaf artist Christine Sun Kim who’s unlearning sound etiquette. She says that the ideal would be that we perceive sound not just with our ears but with our eyes too, and it is definitely possible as we see on her beautiful, beautiful, beautiful performances.

My sexy maternal drawing at MUSAC

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The Mother I did for the last Muestra Marrana festival is now going to be part of Genealogias Feministas at MUSAC (Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León) in its poster form.

Feminist Genealogies in Spanish Art: 1960-2010 (what an honor!)

Piraña Divina

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I met Nazario‘s work twice. The first time was probably at Diana‘s house, it was perhaps Anarcoma or a comic at El Víbora. By that time I was discovering so many things, I had my mind full of BDSM, queer, punk, freaky, bloody imagery!

Then I met him again, in person, so elegantly seated on the sofa with the exquisite Alejandro. They are both Lola‘s godfathers.

And so I connect the dots and realized I was “hanging out” with this great artist who’s work I had seen a few years ago!

At Lola’s mother’s living room are some of his beautiful paintings. Now, next to them, are also two of my photographs (that she bought) so it’s quite an honor to be together in this private gallery!

He’s one of those boundless artists that explores all kinds of mediums in order to represent different personal and political matters.

A funny thing I like to do with Lola is spot her at his paintings:

There’s a lot to know about him. He and his friends have inspired many people with their marica folklorica political and fun street performances during the 70′s.

Here’s a recent interview

All the videos he does from his window at Plaza Real are on his YouTube channel.

Lola and I and a friend (Andy, who does the music for Pornoterrorista‘s new performances) appear in this one:

He has so much wondrous artwork, his website seems infinite.