“Emergency – Emergent Agency” deals with discarded, leftover, marginal messages, and misrepresented groups, all of which are part of the circuit which mainstream media maintain captive and administrated. While mass media claims to present information in an objective manner, the context of information is stripped away by the brief form in which information is presented, leaving the private parties who own the media to control the way in which meaning is produced. The project is being facilitated by a chain of social actors, including an art therapy facilitator, artists, a mass media producer, art students and the general public. Beginning by collecting messages from a group of at-risk youth in the San Deigo/Tijuana transborder region, we will transmit these messages to another group of art students in Tijuana, to respond to the messages. From this link, two outcomes will be produced:
1. Consumerist products including t-shirts and pins to be distributed among the general audience at an art fair
2. Short video segments, produced by art students, broadcast through a television news show.
By doing this, we want to show that discourse is always hegemonic, biased, constructed and to see if there exists any possibility of communication that can slip through and produce empathy between individuals.
Lacan’s Seminar broadcast on Television – Language doesn’t work!
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Lui Velazquez is a contemporary art project that takes the form of a space, a collective practice and a platform. As a project, Lui Velazquez started as an extension of research dealing with relational aesthetics, which included projects from Shannon Spanakhe, Camilo Ontiveros, Felipe Zuniga and Sergio de la Torre dealing with performative, social, media and conceptual gesutres. As a collective practice, Lui Velazquez has established a strategy of interdisciplinary promiscuity, collaborating with dj’s, poets, graphic designers, net labels, musicians, television producers, curators and media activists. As a platform, Lui Velazquez functions as a facilitator of producers outside of the “mainstream art world”. Lui Velazquez functions as a flexible organization that hosts residencies, collaborations and productions which aims to trouble the flows of distribution and production of cultural expressions in the transborder region of Tijuana/San Diego.
Septiembre 17, 2008 at 8:32 pm
Hola todo/a(s),
Slipping by the blank media by slipping elsewhere – by falling beyond the blank state of media full of knowing(not) and instead find
gestures for/and by those who (knot)knowing create themselves,for themselves, for ourselves, create the long list of palabras within us whose lengua escapes that other tongue too full of it-self and unfix it in some transborer babbling in the glissant of you between futures all too present.
The above part of an EmerGenT poetics of relation (without a “poetics of relationality” which is too full of the market) – your question of empathy instead then. But, perhaps rather than connect the
“at risk” and micro-gesture of market and media (and to go against my own histories)
become full of opacity.
To become that gap between the lalalacan words
and catch instead the flash agencies of his loud silences and breaths and risks realizing
something beyond la linea – what that would be
is not here but with you there…somewhere in the promiscuity of world-echos…world-flashes
…lo-bal now! (without the blank stares of all too current exceptions).
But, what of the concrete address across fences, below the media and above the thousand channels – shirts that ping, liminal videos of solidarity-in-solitude, flash agents
for something other than what is forced into
the frame of the event now taking place.
Bueno ya. Sin palabres para ti, no mas para el otro-lado sin fin.
nano nano
ricardo
Septiembre 18, 2008 at 6:49 am
Buttons and T-shirts can be seen as the souvenirs/relics of a past experience. A proof that something has been done or someone has been somewhere.
Perhaps they are also reminders of Political Campaigns– of “Important” people, businesses, and corporate logos. Slogans of the privileged and the financed.
Creating the buttons and t-shirts of the marginalized messages is perhaps this poetic gesture, but definitely empowers the speakers of those messages. They could be given both responses to their messages and their initial messages in this hard-copy form.
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Lacan video has been removed by YouTube.
Septiembre 22, 2008 at 6:09 am
the youtube video still works for me.
m