New Projects after Novelas
January 29 – April 11, 2003
Artists include:
Adriana Arenas Ilian, Instituto de la Telenovela (Pablo Helguera), Claudia Joskowicz, Domingo Nuño, Karina Skvirsky
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More Drama presents recent works by New York City-based contemporary
artists responding to the popular culture media of Latin American telenovelas
(soap operas) and their printed versions called fotonovelas. The exhibition
features work in installation, new media, and video by Adriana Arenas
Ilian, Instituto de la Telenovela (Pablo Helguera), Claudia Joskowicz,
Domingo Nuño, and Karina Aguilera Skvirsky.
Adrian Arenas Ilian
presents a three-channel video installation that includes a karaoke-style
video
of a ranchera love song by Paulina Rubio.
Pablo Helguera installed his Instituto de la Telenovela -- a conceptual
project based on the artist’s research on the transnational phenomenon
and success of Latin American soap operas in place like the Middle East,
Eastern Europe and Asia. Claudia Joskowicz launches her newest project
that brands "Two Second Love Stories" complete with and ad
campaign and iron-on t-shirts donning scenes recreated from a Bolivian
fotonovela. Domingo Nuño has consistently reworked the format
of Mexican fotonovelas that depict moralistic themes through overtly
sexual and erotic comic book-style narratives to develop a new kind of
language primer on Spanish. Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, a recent participant
in the Longwood Cyber Residency Program, has produced a video based on
the lives of three women, including her mother, to discuss immigrant
experiences. Her soundtrack samples opening music from various popular
Spanish-language soap operas. |
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