A Body Parted/Shrapnel of Present Time / Un Cuerpo Partido: Esquirlas De Tiempo Presente
TRIP(tych) II - The Mural , the Installation and a Live Performance
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana ( MACLA) 510 S, First Street San Jose, CA www.maclaarte.org
Friday, September 23 – Doors open at 7:30pm, Performance at 8pm
Saturday, September 24 – Doors open at 7:30pm, Performance at 8pm
Sunday, September 25 – Doors open at 1:30pm, Performance at 2pm
$10 at the door; $9:00 in advance; $8:00 with student ID
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/169877
Funded in part by Creative Work Fund and Creative Capital Foundation
Digital Mural: by Victor Cartagena, was designed as part of a three part multi-media experience.
The maps that are drawn on our immigrant faces represent authentic, physical trajectories and at the same time they are poems filled with misfortune, physical abuse and internal injuries; the raw material with which our memories are made of. The stains remain indelible, as the wounds heal over time, as our dreams get realized or morph into nightmares.
Our maps are drafted as the result of political and familial crises, cultural and socioeconomic shifts, natural disasters, war, famine and other catastrophes, and are often the result of dreams of opportunity and new beginnings. On our “tattooed” immigrant faces one can trace the markings of fear however concealed and layered it might be; deep lines based on valid fears of deportation and illegal status, as well as thin ones, because even 100% citizenship does not erase our heritage and split alliances.
The maps that led us to the “American dream” and the potential for a better future, often escaping untenable circumstances and loaded with dreams for the generations to come, are ultimately the memory maps of our journey.
A journey that brought us to a new society and culture with different rites, rituals and language and imprinted on our immigrant faces a whole new set of realities— discrimination, abuse, exploitation, adaptation, growth, transformation.
mural instatllation video
Installation and Live Performance by Secos y Mojados
