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''' ALTERNATE WORLDS
AMBIENCE '''
''THE BUTTERFLY COUNTS NOT MONTHS BUT MOMENTS....... And Yet has time enough !.'' *Philosopher Rabindernath Tagore*.
Yee -students of the world? Yee
-students from Latin America? You -the first conceptual, temporary
hosts of the World Students Society, Proud Pakistan? You -the World
at Large? And lastly.....
Students : Merium? Rabo? Haleema? Saima? Dee? Seher/Kings College?
Ambassador Malala/Oxford [Nobel Prize]? Saima? Aqsa? Lakshmi/India? Dantini/Malaysia?
Eman? Sameen? Areesha? Bina/Bangldesh? Zara? Armeen? Paras? Mahnnor? Sorat? Tooba? Sanyia? ....................
*Where are the footsteps and contributions of Humanists?!
Hussain? Ali? Shahzaib? Jordan? Salar? Bilal? Haider? Vishnu/India? Faraz? Ali? Mustafa? Ali Hassan? Umer? Wajhat? Furqan? Zaeem? Reza/Canada? Toby/China? Danyial/UK? Hammad?
Where
else, but the World Students Society can you Students escape the
paralyzing borders and inertia and anti immigrant sentiment?
Injustice? zero opportunities? sufferings? and Pain? *
The shiny steel capsule, a 12-sided metal contraption, looked more like a theatrical prop than anything truly orbit-worthy.
And
it was getting crowded inside, A heavy desk, bookshelf and fireplace
-all made out of steel -lined one wall, Still to come was a metal
trunk.
''If I had to go in a space capsule
because I couldn't live on earth anymore, I'd want to feel like a
home,'' said the capsule's creator, the EI Salvador-born Los Angeles artist Beatriz Cortez who spot-welded the futuristic spacecraft and its furniture, giving them unexpected texture.
Her steel panels have visible bumps that evoke the repujado
metalwork Spanish colonial artists. Elsewhere she added steel lumps
that resemble river rocks -a basic construction material used by native
cultures.
''We always imagine indigenous
people being part of our past,'' she said, on a break from installation.
''I wanted to imagine indigenous people as part of our future.''
Starting Sept 16, Ms. Cortez's
''Memory Insertion Capsule'' will greet visitors to ''Mundos
Alternos'' : Art and Science Fiction in the Americas.'' an exhibition at
the University of California, River Side, that shows Latin American
and Latin-heritage artists mining the tropes of science fiction.
Some,
like Ms. Cortez's have created startling objects that offer portals
into alternative worlds or mimic time machines. Others use the imagery
of extra terrestrials to express something of the immigrant's
alienating experience.
Most engage in the speculative thinking long associated with science-fiction literature and film to explore social issues.
''A
Latino science-fiction art project allows us to imagine otherwise and
escape the paralyzing borders and anti immigrant sentiment in this
country,'' said Robb Hernandez, an English professor at the university
who organized the show with two in-house creators.
''Rather
than being bound to our punishing gravity and our horizontal
understanding of border-crossing, these artists are looking
upward to imagine new nations of citizenship, boundaries, who belongs
and who doesn't.''
''Remember, in space we are all essentially aliens.'' he added.
With
$350,000 in funding from the J. Paul Getty Trust, ''Mundos
Alternos'' [''Alternate Worlds''] is the most expensive and research-intensive show that U.C. Riverside's art center has produced
to date.
It is also a good example of a show that might not exist without the Getty's underwriting of the sprawling transcultural art initiative known as Pacific Standard Time : LA/LA, short for Latin America / Los Angeles, opening next month.
A
way to support scholarship in underdeveloped fields, PST : LA/LA, as
the project is known, began in 2011 with the Getty funding 50 Museums
in Southern California to develop shows about the region's art history
from 1940 to 1985.
With $16 million in Getty
financing, the new initiative on Latin American and Latino art involves
about 70 nonprofit institutions in the area: nearly as many
commercial art galleries will be offering self-funded shows on the
theme.
This year's survey was inspired by
the demographics of Los Angeles, where nearly half the population has Hispanic roots, making the area a cultural nexus.
Nearby,
in Riverside County, 47 percent of the population and 29 percent of
the university's students are Chicano or Latino.
Several
museum curators took PST : LA/LA as a rare opportunity to integrate
Latin American and Latin-diaspora art works. Like ''Mundos Alternos,'' the much praised ''Home,'' which opened at the Los Angeles County
Museum of Art, and the forthcoming ''Radical Women'' at the Hammer-
Also mix artists from Latin America countries and the United States to explore economic, social or political transformations.
E.
Carmen Ramos, the Latin art curator and deputy curator at the
Smithsonian American Art Museum, called the rise of thematic shows
noteworthy:
''What's critically important is
about these group exhibitions is that they use a strong conceptual
lens,'' unlike, ''the wave of general surveys we associate with the
multicultural era,'' she said, where ethnicity itself was often the
organizing rubric.
With respectful dedication
to the Leaders, Students, Professors and Teachers of Latin America and
then the World. See Ya all on !WOW! -the World Students Society and
Twitter-!E-WOW! -the Ecosystem 2011:
''' Mundos Alternos '''
Good Night and God Bless
SAM Daily Times - the Voice of the Voiceless
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