Dream of a future

Everybody always told me, that being an artist is so hard because of the issues related with money. So even if I’d like to work as an artist, I’ll need resources from other sides (for beginning at least). 

I’ve being thinking a project that involves the opening of an “arts and design studio” or workshop. What would this mean? A garage, as a library but not just for reading and studying, a place where artists, students of art, design, even architecture can go and work at 24 hrs.

They’re going to pay a minimum tariff for entering, and there they can buy a meal, coffe, snacks, materials, tools, tea, herbs, mate herb, solders and a long list of etc. Also a hiring system of computers, wi-fi, specific tools, light tables, masters and microwaves.

I think it might have a freightage service for those who needs to transport their works. And some other services, like special tables, plotter, even beds and sofas can –for not to say need- to be on this space. Everything that artist and students can need.

At the beginning, salaries may not be good at all, and it seems to be a really hard job at first. But As a student, and as an outsider, I’ve always dreamed about a place like this. And as a dream it seems pretty good, helping other students, meeting people and earning cash, of course!

As this, I have a lot of different projects, but all of them are independent kinds of jobs. It would require a lot of work, but no bosses. Independent jobs rules!

Mala

Today I'm going to wirtte about an album I like a lot, but as always, I've got to say, I don't like to talk with favouritism. This album is Mala, from Devendra banhart. The style is called “psychedelic folk”, “indie folk” or “freak folk”. It have songs in english and spanish wich is so amusing for me to sing. Also their songs are very interesting exercises for me because they're not tipical song at all, and he sings in a very low way.

Devendra Banhart is the real name of the singer, and visual artist. He's half Venezuelan (mother side), half north-american. He became's from a spitirual family. In fact his name is synonymous of Indra (sun's god), that was suggested by his father's spiritual master.

As I've said, he's musician but also visual artist. He's musical work is always comlemented with a psychedelic audiovisual work, that personally I like so much.

This album have cute songs, some of them pretty funny but chill, some others so nostalgic. I've met this album once I wanted something to listent meanwhile I was building a model for my architecture class, and a friend of mine that's the coolest person in the world, shows me that album. She just hits the spot. Really cool album.

I have just good memories with this album. It save me on the road to Peru once. I hear it with my boyfriend often. And he's cool too.

Here's a great song from it, enjoy it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QEoqMiwcb8Q&list=PLwRwXb80YPw0Q1S1RgqsoqBBMw_LakK80&index=8 

En-plazamiento político

I don't really want to talk about favoritisms, but as I have to talk about one single piece of art, I'll choose the one I have in my thoughts these days. The name of this piece is (in spanish) “En-plazamientos políticos”, I think in english might be something like “Political In-placement”, but i'm not sure at all.

This piece of art is a public intervention of the chilean artist Carolina Ruff (I'ts funny to me, because I have an aunt that's named just like that, and it's not a very tipical name). She use to work with minoryties issues, as a feminist artist, but in this time she'd worked this topic from another side.

This intervention -as it's been represented on the picture- it's about emplacing green grass on the Constitution Square, outside the Moneda's building, in some specific zones where there were not grass before. But not just that.

This project have an estrategic undertone.

If you see the Constitution Square from top, it seem pretty much as a Kultrun (Mapuche instrument) on the grass covered part. But it is not completely covered. What she does in this project is to complete the Kultrun image with cementery pruned grass. She asked for a permission that allowed her to intervene the square for two hours, hired a truck that delivered the grass, and toke this photo.

After all this work, the published postal cards that were disposed in many souvenirs shops to be selled. This work, is amazing, because -as almost every postal card- she selled a image of something there's not. After the two hours she was allowed to intervene the space, everything went back to normal.

I think of this piece a lot, because I'm working whit the anti-postal concept by now, and this is a great referent for me.

Japan

This it's a hard question. Now for example I have many countries I would like to visit for different reasons. Now that I have to choose one I think it would be Japan.

In the first place it seems to be a place absolutely different to Chile. With this I'm not talking just about japanese people and society, but their nature, flora and fauna, also their fungi kingdom. 

Omongas

 

 

 

 

I'm interested more about knowing landscapes that cities when I travel. In this case I'l be happy to visist the Hell Valley Monkey Park when you can find families of Japanese Macaques taking healthy baths on the natural therms. Or find the cutest squirrels of the earth and some other adorables species in the Hokkaido Island.

I dream about travell and live in Japan for a while, but also it is hard to me if I would like to live and work in there without being in. People I know they were in Japan loves it. Even there, it sounds too hectic for me.

Travellity

Today I'm going to write about my summer of 2014's travel to Perú and Ecuador. It was a gorgeous travel I've made with my mate Germán. Was also very exciting because we went without much money, and by programming what we were going to do day by day. At first we travelled by doing truck-stop.

We had holly lovely experiences at it, but also some others that were pretty scary, like the one we get on a truck, drived by a guy named Salvador Augusto by his own choice (he choosed those names because of Salvador Allende and Augusto Pinochet, or that's what he told us), who asked us to wake him up after 10 minutes we stopped on a gas station for him to rest. We gave him another 20 minutes, because we hadbeen driving arround 8 hours before that.

But also we met Pablo, the truck driver most incredible of the earth, really. He stopped on the entrance of Tal-tal and we travelled with him until antofagasta, listening to de Dark side of the moon, after a reggae-rap or something group he met on Antofagasta, and others. Also we made 3 Stops, one to water a few plants that are on the north 5th freeway (that lives because of the truckers watering), another to feed Chola, the northern dog (but she had so much food on her dog house there in the desert, also given o her by truckers and miners) and another to eat, on a "picada" pablo told to us. So great.

Once in Peru, we went fast to Mancora, where we met with a beloved friend Nicky and he told us how his rute was (he was returing from Ecuador to Chile) and he was very enfatic about a place called Portete, so we started or way to that paradise.

On or way to Portete we met with another buddy that was traveling with Nicky, but he did not wanted to return yet, so he waited for us in Baños de Agua Santa, on Ecuador. Gabo told us about Portete to, and together we knew this incredible place of rivers, waterfalls and mountains. We had this amazing day visiting de "house in the air" on the top of an enormous hill, were we get on a huge swing, and the next day we started our trip to Portete, and our friend Gabo went to south for recolect Kukumelos.

In fact, Portete is the most beautifull and peacefull beach I've been in my whole life. And life there is extremely cheap (for us). This place were so far from our home, that it is near to Colombia. The sea water is warm, they fall coconuts all over the place, from the trees!! There is no need to put so mcuh clothes on, even if it rains. It was the last place we visited until we started the way on, back home.

Comunitary Feminism

My favorite subject studied during this semester was not related to the university. I’ve studied it during this semester but along my artistic studying. I have been studying about comunitary feminism with a group of friends. Comunitary feminism  is one of the many indigenous womens groups movements, that are looking for their reclaiming inside their circles and then in our whole society. They’re the ones who work side by side with urban white feminist womens, the one who’ll never call themselves as feminists because is it a occidental ideology that doesn’t represent them, and the ones who doesn’t call themselves as feminists because it may offend or disturb the people around them, as many other kind of comunitary feminists. 

We have started studying this subject during april, now we’ve passed this topic, to continue studying about feminism but from the opposite side of the worl. Now we’re going to study about the Rote Zoras. A group of anonymous german feminists that have made many differents attempt few decades ago, and they still being anonymous. All of their attempts we’re perfectly realized, and by today just 2 of them has been prosecuted.

Artishock Magazine's Website

On this blog I'm going to talk about the Artishock Magazine’s website. This site is a review of the contemporary art scene in Ibero-America, but focused the most in the Chilean contemporary visual art scenario. Here is possible to find artists, art -critics and curators interviews, or articles about talks and expositions that happened on many cities on Ibero-America. 

There’s also a section that personally I’ve seen only on this site.  In this section, a journalist makes some reviews of artists’s studios by visits that he or she makes. Here they tell something about the artist work and process. 

I use this website mostly to read arts related news and to see artist’s portfolios. Once a week the magazine website upload a video that talks about any item I’ve tell before, as a micro-documental. The last one for example, is a 5 minutes documental as an interview of an Argentinian artist named Marta Minujin that is like a Hispanoamerican Yayoi Kuzama. I think it amazing to have a website that promoves the awareness that in our continent there’s so much art and action happening now.

Artishock home page 

Marta Minujin micro-documental