El Perro en DF y NY

Para los lectores del otro lado del Atlántico. Si estais en Nueva York podeis ver un trabajo de El Perro en la exposición Democracy Was Fun en White Box y si andais por México DF lo podeis ver en un ciclo de vídeo llamado «Control Remoto» que se está programando a partir de hoy mismo en el MUCA Roma.
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«Control Remoto» es un ciclo de video español reciente organizado por El Perro, en el que participan Antonio de la Rosa, Sergio Ojeda, Pilar Albarracín, Juande Jarillo, Maria Cañas & Guillermo García, Yomango, Javier Montero, Oscar Seco, Antonio Ortega, Fernando Baena y Luis Alonso.
Se puede ver desde el jueves 25 en el Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte Roma (MUCA Roma). Tabasco 73, entre Frontera y Mérida. Espacio abierto de lunes a domingo de 10:00 a 18:00 horas. Tels.: 5511 09 25 y 5511 88 67. Entrada Libre.
«Democracy was Fun» es una exposición comisariada por Juan Puntes y Raul Zamudio en el espacio non-profit White Box.525 WEST 26th STREET
New York, del 19 de noviembre al 11 de diciembre.
Press Release
Vito Acconci /Carlos Amorales / Melanie Baker / Jane Benson / Robert Boyd / Tania Candiani / Michael Estabroook / Solange Fabiao / Coco Fusco / Rainer Ganahl / Kendell Geers / Mariam Ghani / Zhang Huan / Les Levine / Scott Lifchutz / Dominic McGill / Arnoldo Morales / El Perro / Christy Rupp / Rikko Sakkinen / Eduardo Sarabia / Seric Shoba / Ray Smith / Javier Tellez / Momoyo Torimitsu / David Wakstein / Hans Winkler and others
Democracy was Fun is an exhibition that addresses the myriad contexts of democracy and the public discourse. This realm consists of diverse circuits were discourse is articulated including, for instance, the media, the community, «the town hall,» as well as the streets. Democracy was Fun investigates forms of public engagement that rub against accepted conventions as to what is or what is not democracy. For example, in El Perro√çs video that tropes TV sports advertisement a young woman in a designer jogging suit lights a Molotov cocktail and throws it. Before it reaches its intended target, the frame freezes and a text appears that states «what is important is participation.» Participation, which is the bedrock of democracy, is contextualized in this work in ways that interrogate the limits of democratic discourse. Some artists take a different approach in appropriating the media in order to highlight the undemocratic and ideological nature of what is purportedly a neutral avenue of information dissemination, while others investigate democracy and the socio-psychological mechanisms that are deployed to work against it: the cult of personality, the oedipal link between leaders and their followers, as well as what the philosopher Theodor Adorno called the «Authoritarian Personality.» Democracy was Fun explores the culture of complacency and the complacency of culture that fosters blind allegiance and an uncritical spirit; and sees these elements of the American social fabric as norms that foreclose democracy by cultivating the antithesis of the democratic ethos.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 11, 6-9 pm: New York Political Artists Town Hall Meeting #1 (NYPATHM1) Introduced and moderated by Eleanor Heartney and Larry Litt

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