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.