An essay-performance, this media-archaeological examination celebrates the revolutionary potentia... more An essay-performance, this media-archaeological examination celebrates the revolutionary potential of recognizing and engaging with our collective, gaping wounds. Taking Caravaggio's The Incredulity of Saint Thomas as a point of departure, I construct a narrative that links the production of subjectivities in "post"-colonial contexts, with the technosexual networks of resistance and coded information exchange that grew out of the government-manufactured crack epidemic in oppressed neighborhoods throughout the late 70s/early 80s and today.
Earthworks, at 80m2 Livia Benavides in Lima, is the new solo exhibition by Adán Vallecillo, the H... more Earthworks, at 80m2 Livia Benavides in Lima, is the new solo exhibition by Adán Vallecillo, the Honduran artist who has spent several years working and researching in the Caribbean region. Vallecillo's current works on view are the result of a field project investigating the people of Hinche, a city in Haiti not too far from the border with the Dominican Republic, and the intimate relationship between their hands, the land and their stomachs.
aka: hippie johnny / jungle jim / ic pcp / wife rice / fake steak / real veal / mono tony / visua... more aka: hippie johnny / jungle jim / ic pcp / wife rice / fake steak / real veal / mono tony / visual aids December 31, 2016 I was in Miami the night I heard about the fire in Oakland earlier this month. I had just finished a performance with my wife and collaborator and was in the process of enjoying another performance, an electronic music performance with strong kawaii aesthetics. It's something I think Micah would really have enjoyed.
Review of Brazilian visual artist Adriana Varejão's survey show at the Institute of Contemporary ... more Review of Brazilian visual artist Adriana Varejão's survey show at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston as seen through the lens of Oswald de Andrade's 1928 "Manifesto Antropófago" and José Lezama Lima's 1957 "La curiosidad barroca", both expressions of Latin American cultural cannibalism and transformation as an aesthetic mode of resistance against the colonial condition.
Ian Deleón shares his reflections on a performance by Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez at the closing ... more Ian Deleón shares his reflections on a performance by Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez at the closing reception of her most recent show ‘Auto Galáctica en el Tercer Espacio’ at Área: lugar de proyectos in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Vázquez Rodríguez used the immersive, multidisciplinary piece to speak about displacement and belonging, specifically her experience of being made to feel foreign – or ‘other’ – within the Caribbean, while also addressing her ties to the North.
They are sex objects, spoils in the war between white males and black males over which group will... more They are sex objects, spoils in the war between white males and black males over which group will dominate the planet." Pillars of desire: James Montford and the guardians of the Br'er gaze Much of Persuasions 1990-2015, the mid-career survey of Rhode Island-based visual and performance artist James Montford (recently on view at the Mills Gallery @ Boston Center for the Arts), is constituted by investigations of blackness and shortsightedness. Montford's prolific use of afronauts, black holes, and cosmic dark matter (outer space populated with the artist's signature pantheon of racialized celestial bodies), floating in mathematical freedom amidst the colorful and seemingly endless night of the expansive universe, suggests an awareness, or at the very least, a subconscious channeling of the limited human perceptual systems that tie both of these conceptions of blackness together. The universe, locked into permanent darkness through our inability to perceive the full spectrum of its receding wavelengths, is thus linked to humanity's dogmatic identification with biological determinism and the violent consequences that result from our everwaning willingness to recognize and truly see with the so-called other.
Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez is well-known in the Boston area for her curatorial projects and individ... more Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez is well-known in the Boston area for her curatorial projects and individual works in photography, installation, and more recently, performance. Atenea (2001), her mural-sized collage now on view at the Mobius Gallery, masterfully unites the themes of self-portraiture, storytelling, migration, and femininity that have come to define her current body of work. It is as if Vázquez Rodríguez gave expression to these ideas many years ago in a sudden, chaotic burst of energy that has taken time to percolate through her creative practice. The collage it is an honest and complex portrayal of an artist's internal and external travailsbrilliantly executed at an early stage in her career.
An essay-performance, this media-archaeological examination celebrates the revolutionary potentia... more An essay-performance, this media-archaeological examination celebrates the revolutionary potential of recognizing and engaging with our collective, gaping wounds. Taking Caravaggio's The Incredulity of Saint Thomas as a point of departure, I construct a narrative that links the production of subjectivities in "post"-colonial contexts, with the technosexual networks of resistance and coded information exchange that grew out of the government-manufactured crack epidemic in oppressed neighborhoods throughout the late 70s/early 80s and today.
Earthworks, at 80m2 Livia Benavides in Lima, is the new solo exhibition by Adán Vallecillo, the H... more Earthworks, at 80m2 Livia Benavides in Lima, is the new solo exhibition by Adán Vallecillo, the Honduran artist who has spent several years working and researching in the Caribbean region. Vallecillo's current works on view are the result of a field project investigating the people of Hinche, a city in Haiti not too far from the border with the Dominican Republic, and the intimate relationship between their hands, the land and their stomachs.
aka: hippie johnny / jungle jim / ic pcp / wife rice / fake steak / real veal / mono tony / visua... more aka: hippie johnny / jungle jim / ic pcp / wife rice / fake steak / real veal / mono tony / visual aids December 31, 2016 I was in Miami the night I heard about the fire in Oakland earlier this month. I had just finished a performance with my wife and collaborator and was in the process of enjoying another performance, an electronic music performance with strong kawaii aesthetics. It's something I think Micah would really have enjoyed.
Review of Brazilian visual artist Adriana Varejão's survey show at the Institute of Contemporary ... more Review of Brazilian visual artist Adriana Varejão's survey show at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston as seen through the lens of Oswald de Andrade's 1928 "Manifesto Antropófago" and José Lezama Lima's 1957 "La curiosidad barroca", both expressions of Latin American cultural cannibalism and transformation as an aesthetic mode of resistance against the colonial condition.
Ian Deleón shares his reflections on a performance by Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez at the closing ... more Ian Deleón shares his reflections on a performance by Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez at the closing reception of her most recent show ‘Auto Galáctica en el Tercer Espacio’ at Área: lugar de proyectos in Caguas, Puerto Rico. Vázquez Rodríguez used the immersive, multidisciplinary piece to speak about displacement and belonging, specifically her experience of being made to feel foreign – or ‘other’ – within the Caribbean, while also addressing her ties to the North.
They are sex objects, spoils in the war between white males and black males over which group will... more They are sex objects, spoils in the war between white males and black males over which group will dominate the planet." Pillars of desire: James Montford and the guardians of the Br'er gaze Much of Persuasions 1990-2015, the mid-career survey of Rhode Island-based visual and performance artist James Montford (recently on view at the Mills Gallery @ Boston Center for the Arts), is constituted by investigations of blackness and shortsightedness. Montford's prolific use of afronauts, black holes, and cosmic dark matter (outer space populated with the artist's signature pantheon of racialized celestial bodies), floating in mathematical freedom amidst the colorful and seemingly endless night of the expansive universe, suggests an awareness, or at the very least, a subconscious channeling of the limited human perceptual systems that tie both of these conceptions of blackness together. The universe, locked into permanent darkness through our inability to perceive the full spectrum of its receding wavelengths, is thus linked to humanity's dogmatic identification with biological determinism and the violent consequences that result from our everwaning willingness to recognize and truly see with the so-called other.
Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez is well-known in the Boston area for her curatorial projects and individ... more Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez is well-known in the Boston area for her curatorial projects and individual works in photography, installation, and more recently, performance. Atenea (2001), her mural-sized collage now on view at the Mobius Gallery, masterfully unites the themes of self-portraiture, storytelling, migration, and femininity that have come to define her current body of work. It is as if Vázquez Rodríguez gave expression to these ideas many years ago in a sudden, chaotic burst of energy that has taken time to percolate through her creative practice. The collage it is an honest and complex portrayal of an artist's internal and external travailsbrilliantly executed at an early stage in her career.
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