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ASX.TV: Enrique Metinides – “SERIES” (2011)

amer4127 — Sat, 15 Oct 2011 23:49:57 +0000

2011 Kominek Books, 24,5 x34,5 cm , 144 pages 100 images, color and b/w duotone.

Series is an attempt to examine Enrique Metinides’ work from the perspective of cinematography, sequentially revealing facts that come together in a substantial way to form a common motif with continuity—thematic at least—between the various episodes of hisoeuvre. This iconoclastic approach allows us to see that the work of Enrique Metinides is one of both fact and fiction. Showing that an act took place, that it really happened, gives the photographs the chance to vindicate their real and their fictional aspects; it also allows viewers to be conscious of their own confusion as they struggle to take a position vis-à-vis ambiguous material and makes it possible for them to redeploy their gaze.

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ASX.TV: Maru Ituarte – “Mexican Gholash” (2003)

amer4127 — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:47:15 +0000

Mexican Ghoulash (2003)

Single-channel video, 9’55, DVD, NTSC, color, sound

This video has been edited out of a series of eight hi-8 tapes of anonymous origin found together in the streets of Monterrey, Mexico. The fast paced editing traces the symptomatic relationship between the ordinary existence of a middle class family in Mexico and the hidden violence of everyday life.

Language, ideas, recurrent behavioral patterns and violence interweave within the framework of the particular socio-cultural context of an average, middle-class Mexican family through the “significant moments” they have chosen to record, and on the other hand, through the scenes and gestures performed exclusively for the occasion of being filmed.

The tapes and the found footage itself have been appropriated by the artist as recyclable material for the purpose of this work. The identity of the characters in the film has remained anonymous.

ASX.TV: Benjamin Alcantara – “Vigilantes” (2011)

amer4127 — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:13:40 +0000

Pieza de video que consiste en la documentación visual del trabajo cotidiano realizado por los vigilantes de sala, en museos de la ciudad de México, especialmente los dedicados al arte contemporáneo. Se trata de una pieza de narración no lineal, intercalando planos abiertos y cerrados de un mismo espacio y/o sujeto, haciendo énfasis en el concepto del tiempo. El tiempo que los trabajadores pasan en las salas diariamente, y el tiempo que el espectador decida permanecer dentro de la sala, observando a estos vigilantes, quienes comúnmente son ignorados por los visitantes de los museos.

La pieza intenta propiciar la crítica al interior del museo, recreando el espacio museístico a partir de la proyección simultánea a cuatro paredes dentro de una sala de arte contemporáneo. El museo dentro del museo, un juego de espejos que provoque el cuestionamiento y reflexión sobre los tiempos y formas de trabajo de los vigilantes.