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Visual Festival Brasil 2011

Mónica Boixeda Barcelonian, Only-Be

The ninth edition of the Festival Visual Brazil will take place at Centro Cultural Punt Multimedia in Barcelona, over 1st and 2nd of July. Activities this year will be themed around multiculturalism, and integration through art, and how it can contribute to different modes of communication. Festival Visual Brazil was created as an event which would open space for creativity, and experimentation, developing thoughtful discussion, exchange and new ideas for audiovisual arts. Discussing art and multiculturalism might seem a complicated task, particularly because culture is all about our relations with the world, and ways of living – a social process which connects language, religion, ideology; things which are often difficult to distinguish and comprehend. However, with art, the limits of culture become diffused, producing a dialogue which facilitates a meeting between different worlds. This is made possible by the symbolic language of emotions expressed through art. In this sense, sadness, anger, helplessness, and other feelings have universal representations in different cultures. A example of this multicultural fusion is the project from VJ JAM, with the audiovisual collective Folcore from Barcelona, who have chosen to fuse the sounds on the margins of the mainstream, with ethnic music, or those belonging to African and Latin American cultures. The aesthetic objective is deconstruction in order to produce a meeting between different cultures, via a fusion of images and music. Participating in the project are VJ Eletroiman, recent winner of Festival Torna 2011 in Rome, VJ O´Video and Damian. Mastigando Humanos by Daniel Peixoto is a mixture of electronic sound with traditional tones, where the audiovisual impacts with rapid, video-clip images. It´s a... read more

Yayoi Kusama at the Reina Sofia in Madrid

Mónica Boixeda Madrilenian, Only-Be

In one of their first denouncing artworks the collective feminist group Guerrilla Girls (formed anonymously in the eighties by a diverse group of female artistic writers and filmmakers of all ages, ethnicity, sexual orientation and degree of professional success) specified with penetrating irony the advantages of being a woman in art. Among them was the advantage of working without the pressure of success, not having to share presentations with men, escaping the world through self-employment, knowing that there was room for their work to be recognized once they were over eighty years of age , to be sure that whatever work they accomplished it would invariably be labeled as feminist, to have the opportunity to choose between a career and motherhood, to have more time to work when their couples abandon them for someone younger or not having to feel embarrassed when they are called geniuses and see how their ideas continued to live in the work of others. It is difficult, for example, to not appreciate her influence from Donald Judd, and Joseph Cornell. She also maintained a close relationships with Yves Klein and Frank Stella. The influence and stimulating effect of hard work are difficult to discuss, however for many years she suffered the stigma of being a beautiful and unbalanced woman (she spent more than thirty years voluntarily interned in a psychiatric hospital almost as a contemporary reincarnation of the myth of hysteria. For some time, she even suffered the distrust of a certain division of feminist critic circle, which considered opportunist they way she used her beautiful body to promote her work, posing, naked for... read more

Cyndi Lauper ‘Memphis Blues Tour’ in Rome

Mónica Boixeda Only-Be, Roman

The Foundation Music for Rome presents on July 11 this extraordinary concert Memphis Blues Tour by the controversial singer Cyndi Lauper, to be held at the Auditorium Parco della Musica. The organization has considered this concert as the most important musical event of this summer season in Italy, and seeks to take Lauper together again with the Italian public and lovers of music and the voice of this unique singer, who has Italy in her genes. Cynthia Ann Stephanie Lauper, known as Cyndi Lauper, was born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1953. She did not have an easy childhood, her mother of Italian-American origin, who she inherited her expressiveness from, worked as a waitress after a marriage breakdown. Cyndi grew up listening to the music of Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Judy Garland and the Beatles, an explosive mix for a girl who loved urban sounds. At the early age of 12 she began writing her own songs, besides playing guitar with virtuosity. The sounds of adolescence and the bustle of the suburbs were the first stimulus to compose love songs. Her desire to excel led her to experiment with clothes and hair, transforming her image radically with odd trends and hair colors, which were then her sign on stage. She didn’t highlight in the studies and, despite having been accepted into a special school for the training of young talents in audiovisual, she left without finishing her degree. Determined to finish her studies, she made her way to Canada, but her intention was also unsuccessful. She finally finished her art studies at Johnson State College in Vermont. Her first... read more