Every year during the East Austin Studio Tour (E.A.S.T) local artists open their work spaces to the public and organize exhibitions, performances, pop-up shows, and informal parties. For a couple of days the Austin art world, official and underground, become very vibrant and busy. A quick look at the map of E.A.S.T. 2012 could [...]
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For a long time I have been interested in the popular arts. Their vernacular power and their low brow sensibility have captivated my attention and trigger my curiosity. Whenever I am immersing myself in a culture I always try to devour the popular imagery and language, and discover the carnivalesque in everyday life. During my [...] Directed and written by Jacques Tati, and produced by Jolly Film and Specta Films, Play Time was released in France in 1967 after three long years of expensive production and postproduction processes. The expenses of the movie were so huge and its reception so poor, that both producers and director went bankrupt. Even worst, Tati [...] Waiting in lines is one of the cultural practices of the attendees to the SXSW festival. Tonight we did again a very long line around the Ritz Theater in oder to enter the screening of a movie and we couldn’t get in. Yesterday we had the same result. We keep missing the opportunity of watching [...] Today i went to a special event organized by the center for mexican american studies that featured the film screening of Born in East L.A and a talk with director and actor Cheech Marin. Although i didn’t know anything about the career of this artist, the posters that advertised the event called my attention. An [...] |
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