Saludos.
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BIBIANA PADILLA MALTOS
AVTEXTFEST general coordinator
Paseo de Vista Hermosa #625
Mexicali, B.C., 21240
MEXICO
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Calexico, Ca., 92231-2646
U.S.A.
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Subject: On transit. Visual narratives in North America
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 11:48:10 -0700
On transit.Visual narratives in North America.
Opening June 20th at 7.30pm. Baja California's Center of Arts in Mexicali
(México)
Catalog may be ordered or downloaded at http://www.cruncheditores.tk/
The word transit has a sense of double meaning. In first instance it
refers to the pass on public space, to travel by scales. In an indirect
form is related with Latin transitione, denoting a change of state, a
modification, a sudden variation in terms of reasoning or expression, a
space of specific intermediation. When we speak about the border culture,
the notion of transitgets dressed with both senses and aims towards the
construction of a contextual frame that allows to glimpse dynamics not
necessarily visible in regards to the invention and re-invention of the
every day things. Facing the globalization, the border must be think as an
extended way, reproduced in each one of the processes that constitute the
systems of symbolic and material interchange. The almost mythologic speech
of the cultural resistance hides the nature of the things and in special
the transit of them. The present exhibition not only represents an
approach of the term, but also the form in which the sense of the North
America is constructed. Although the field of the arts has been
overdressed with a relative autonomy, it persists in works a feedback
with respect to its own contexts and consensuses.
"On-Transit. Visual narratives in North America" reunites six young,
original artists of the three countries that conform the NAFTA region.
More than a revision of the latest tendencies, is a sample of the
individual restlessness of the artists, whose tie point in conceptual
terms is the idea of transit in terms of the real and the possible, what
corresponds to the social surroundings and its imaginary understood like
costories. The sample explores identity and other closely linked questions
about the development of the communities and the landscape, but also
hedonistic perspectives in regards the notion of traveling and movement.
In formal terms, the exhibition integrates a series of techniques that go
from the drawing to the electronic graph, from the photography to the
performance, the installation and the intervention.
Besides the work of Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Camille Turner, Katie Herzog,
Marc LeBlanc, Anne SARAH Johnson and Carlos Adolfo Gutiérrez Vidal, the
reader/public will find the approaches critical of Sobaz Benjamín,
Alejandro Espinoza, Meeka Walsh and Jeff M. Ward; an extended dialogue
that pretends to extend in the field of the arts and complements with
literary perspectives, travel journals and the opinion of Tim Dunn, Josh
Kun, Jerome Rothenberg, Mark Weiss, Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz and Lorne
Roberts.
