CO(Ó)MO
ME VEO (?) / HOW (DO) I LOOK(?) is a summer audiovisual workshop for Aquí para Ti/Here for you (APT/HFY), a youth development clinic
based program for Latino teens and their families –most of them immigrants-
aiming to achieve health in a very integrative way, thus addressing the
adaptation to the new environment and health inequity as a whole (http://www.hcmc.org/depts/hcclinics/Aquiparatiprogram.htm).
I
put together this summer workshop in Spanish, targeting Latina teens 15 years
and up, to introduce audiovisual art on issues of gender roles and particularly
the female role in Latino Culture. The workshop will take place at the
Minneapolis Central library, from mid July to Mid august. The workshop’s goals
are to:
1)
explore womanhood through audiovisual production and express our situation as
women
2)
help them experience art in a very inviting way.
3)
encourage them to use the Central Library and visit museums.
4)
produce art as a form of expression.
Attendees
will re-discover the city they live in by using public transportation (light
rail) to go from APT/HFY offices to
the library, explore the art scene by visiting Walker Art Center, and
experience art to express themselves by producing an audio-visual piece as
their final project.
The
meetings will be Tuesdays and Thursdays at the Minneapolis Central Library. The
screening are open to whoever might be interested (upon request. IF INTERESTED PLEASE
SUBSCRIBE)
Selected
materials include films (fictional, political and biographical documentaries),
photomontages and video-art from a variety of Latin-American countries like
Argentina, Colombia, Cuba-US, México and Perú. They are made mostly by women
and some of the pieces are extremely difficult to find, like Graciela Taquini’s
video-art or Ana Mendieta: Fuego de
Tierra.
The
closing event of the workshop will be at the Nash Gallery/Regis Center for Art where we will present the blog
with the final projects and experience Octopus/Pulpo,
the amazing 4 channel video-installation produced by Yoshua Okón, during his
residency with the Hammer Museum. This piece explores the relationships among
Guatemalan day laborers who at home fought against each other in the context of
the Guatemalan civil war while in the U.S. wait side-by-side for employment in
a parking lot.
