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SISMO or in Praise of the Ephemeral
AIMÉ MALENA PANSERA Proyecto B, 2009. Cortesía: SISMO -Teatron.
Last weekend, at the Matadero art space, the I Festival de Creación “in situ” SISMO [1st SISMOI in situ Creation Festival] took place, with the aim of functioning as a meeting point and a space for the diffusion of the activities by artists working a variety of fields, all of which come together on the stage. This would have been a contemporary theatre festival like any other had it not been for the ephemeral nature of a series of works linked to a unique and unrepeatable moment and time. With an appearance of modernity, the festival refers, on the one hand, to a practice which goes back to the avant-garde trends from the early 20th century, and, on the other, to the theatre created by and for the community, which is very popular in Anglo-Saxon countries and Latin America. The great difference, and also the show’s most striking innovation, lies in its use of new technology, not only in terms of creation, but also with regards to the circulation and documentation of a series of works which would otherwise not have found a place in conventional distribution circuits.
Read more...Inglorious Basterd
Each year, on the 6th of January, children wake up to a pile of shiny, colourfully-wrapped boxes which they tear open to reveal the toys inside. In many cases, the entire day is spent discovering that the toys are simply too complicated to truly be fun. Sometimes, the toys have already been broken before the day is over. Any gift that survives a month lies forgotten among other toys of varying size and provenance, which the children, like true Dr Frankensteins, will mix and match as they play. Tarantino is one of these children; he is happy to twist his toys around, to disembowel his dolls and to create impossible narratives that, if we are being sympathetic, are seemingly born from the ingenuity of a child’s mind, or, if we choose to be slightly more cynical, from the absolute lack of judgement and reference points displayed by the average North American citizen. His films are sinking under the weight of his excesses and lack of self-criticism, which may work with children’s toys, but serve no purpose in the work of a filmmaker.
Read more...Experimentaclub 2009
Image by experimentaclub on flickr.com
When the journalist and music critic Simon Reynolds coined the term “post-rock”, in the early 1990s, he was formulating an important transformation in the pop world. With the advent and development of new technologies, electronic music experienced an enormous expansion, giving rise to fusions with new sound proposals from fields as diverse as jazz and progressive rock. The artiest versions came from Chicago, with the pioneering Tortoise and, later on, Pan.American, who described themselves as living legends advocating a way of working in which electronica is an extra element and not the focus of the entire sound construction. This is the substantial difference displayed by the proposals presented at the eclectic line-up of the Experimentaclub 2009 festival, which took place at the La Casa Encendida in Madrid. Let us take a general look at the four stages on which the current trends in the electro-universe were defined last weekend:
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