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Freewaves: Latin America
dal 26/5/2003 al 4/6/2003
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26/5/2003

Freewaves: Latin America

The Americas Society, New York

The newest in video art from Latin America. One of the most substantial Latin American video surveys ever assembled, the nine programs, represent the syncretism and dynamic exchanges of artists and activists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama', Peru', and Venezuela.


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Latin America features the newest in video art from Latin America. One of the most substantial Latin American video surveys ever assembled, the nine programs, represent the syncretism and dynamic exchanges of artists and activists from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, México, Nicaragua, Panamá, Perú, and Venezuela.

Selected screenings will be followed by an informal discussion with featured artists and/or curators, including: Monika Bravo, Françoise Bucher, Margarita Jimeno, and Yucef Mehri.

Tuesday May 27, 6-7 pm
Face Value: Contemporary Video Works from Colombia
Selected by José Roca, 52 minutes
Artists: Fernando Arias, Sandra Bermúdez, François Bucher, Santiago Echeverry, Juan Fernando Herrán, Oscar Muñoz, Lucas Ospina, and Carlos Salazar.

May 29, 6-8 pm
Vidéo Femmes
Selected by Yucef Merhi, 38 minutes
Artists: María Bernárdez, Nela Ochoa, Nan Gonzáles, Conny Viera, Diana López, Odalys Valdivieso, and the late Meijer-Warners.

Guonderguoman [Wonder Woman]
Selected by Claudia Prado, 32 minutes
Artists: Silvia Gruner, Amaranta Sánchez, Alejandra Echeverría, Paulina del Paso, Carolina Esparragoza, Cecilia Navarro, Grace Quintanilla, Ximena Cuevas, and Claudia Fernández.

Thursday May 30, 6-8 pm
Load (And Unload)
Selected by Cristián Silva, 48 minutes
Artists: Juan Céspedes, Felix Lazo, Cristóbal Lehyt, Mario Navarro, Macarena Rivas, Francisco Valdés, and Joe Villablanca.

State in Crisis: Contemporary Argentinean Video Art
Selected by Jorge La Ferla, 60 minutes
Artists: Diego Lascano, Claudio Caldini, Alejandro Sáenz, Arturo Marinho, Florencia Acevedo, Guadalupe Pérez García, Carlos Trilnik, and Lorena Salomé.

Saturday May 31, 1-9 pm
Marathon Event: All videos to be screened

Tuesday June 3, 6-9 pm
Visual Noise/Visual Memory: Recent Videos from Colombia
Selected by Michèle Faguet, 39 minutes
Artists: Rolando Vargas, Andrés Burbano, Adriana Arenas, José Alejandro Restrepo, Elkin Calderón, Simón Hernández, Wilson Díaz, Margarita Jimeno, and Monika Bravo.

Body Circumstances: The Body Between the Public and Private Spaces
Artists: Eder Santos, Lucas Bambozzi, Bruno de Carvalho, Rachel Rosalen, Lucila Meirelles, Inés Cardoso, Neide Jallageas, and Rafael França.

Wednesday June 4, 6-8 pm
Behind Television: The New Image of Peruvian Art Video
Programmed by José-Carlos Mariátegui for ATA Projects (High Andean Technology), 69 minutes.
Artists: Roger Atasi, Rafael Besaccia, Alvaro Zavala, Carlos Letts, Fermín Tanguis, Felipe Morey, Diego Velásquez, Carlos Troncoso, Iván Lozano, José Luis Carbajal, Diego Lama, and Arias & Aragón.

The Dinosaur Was Still There
Selected by Ernesto Calvo Álvarez and Tamara Díaz Bringas, 59 minutes
Artists: Brooke Alfaro, Darío Escobar, Regina Galindo, Jonathan Harker, José Alberto Hernández, Lucía Madriz, Priscilla Monge, Hugo Ochoa, Alejandro Ramírez, Joaquín Rodríguez, Álvaro Sánchez, Patricia Villalobos, and Rodolfo Walsh.

[Related Program]
Wednesday May 28, 6:30 pm
Producing in: Latin America
Panel discussion on the current state of film and television production in Latin America, organized by New York Women in Film and Television (NYWFT) in collaboration with The Americas Society and the Mexican Cultural Institute of New York.
Speakers: Marcela Gaviria (Colombia), Carlos Gutiérrez (Mexico); Paula Heredia (El Salvador), Cynthia Newport (Cuba),and Julia Solomonoff (Argentina).

Free Admission
Reservations recommended (212) 277 8361

Freewaves: Latin America was originally commissioned for the 2002 LA Freewaves Festival The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles held in (Los November and produced by Juan Devis, Chair of the LA Freewaves Board. For more information on L.A. Freewaves, its participating artists, project descriptions, and events, please visit: http://www.freewaves.org. Some videos are in Spanish with no English subtitles.

The presentation of Freewaves: Latin America at The Americas Society is made possible, in part, through the generous support of the Elliot Family Foundation.

The Americas Society is a non-profit organization that promotes the understanding of the political, economic, and cultural issues that define and challenge the Americas today, from the Arctic circle to the southernmost tip of Argentina.

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