Publicado en Uncategorized el Noviembre 23, 2007 por alxmountainman
The course is over. It was challenging and exciting.
This posting is to comment on my reaction on the different feedbacks I received form all my colleagues about my work, which includes this blogging roll. Thus, my reaction is really positive, just as the overall feedback. Everybody was honest and had something constructive to say about my work. Some critical points, which I absolutely agree and appreciate everyone for their comments. You all guys also did an awesome job.
Publicado en Uncategorized el Noviembre 19, 2007 por alxmountainman
Once the video was finished, I went to Cherry Creek neighborhood, which is one of the “wealthiest” neighborhoods in Denver, and projected “Life in the Hoods” on the garage door of a house. By doing so, I brought one of the poorest neighborhoods into one of the richest ones, creating thus, with certain sarcasm, a critique to the way of living of the people in the rich neighborhood.
The path was never straight forward, and it was always full of obstacles. Walking the line was a non-sense. Y sin embargo, aqui estamos, al final del camino.
The show is over and everyone is now leaving their seat; they are dropping out, just like all those kids of this ‘hood’ drop out from school. What are they doing? Why do they follow the same path that other did before them? Is it perhaps because the way society has been structured, has been pushing them to resolve their lives in such a way? Or is it perhaps the lack of identity because their immigrant parents have been forced to live on the edge of society. A society that doesn’t give any value to the knowledge and skills that those who arrive to this country bring with them.
But hold on! the last performance is about to begin!
The latest updates on the last stages of this project are to be found here.
Thus I have here the last piece (re-edited) of “Life in the Hoods”, another short video with all the most important data collected
for the project, and photographs of the different neighborhoods where I spent a deal of time roaming around in order to become familiar with the environment and the possibilities.
This docu-video was made to show the differences between one of the poorest and one of the better-off neighborhoods of the city of Denver. However, while working on the streets video-taping, I realized that the poor ‘hood’ had so much more life, more folk, more, personality… Thus, I decided not to include any footage from the rich neighborhood, and this turned to be a somewhat promotional video for the beauty of ‘the hoods.’ This video is part of a bigger project that involve, as well, this online blogging, and another part that has not yet been performed, but that will be posted in here as soon as I get done with it.
This is not a satire of the people who inhabit this and other not-rich neighborhoods, although some people might see it like that, as I’ve been told by one or two people when I presented it after a closed audience. Satirizing and mocking about these people would be the last thing I would like to do.
I must say that often times artists make use of elements that may induce some sort of satire, but if at all, the satire is against the rich people who create their hermetic surroundings that lack all that “flavor” that the other ‘hood’ have.
Through the Heart of the Hoods is dedicated to those who make this places beautiful and full of life!
Este blog esta dedicado a ti, el pueblo. Yo no soy mas que un moderador, pero tambien soy uno mas del pueblo; y no solo eso, sino que tambien soy uno que sufre las injusticias del sistema.
Aqui estoy ahora mismo creando un espacio, gracias a wordpress, en donde he de compartir con el mundo un poco de mi arte de protesta contra la clase dominante, la clase que ha creado y soporta este sistema que oprime a los que tienen poco o nada y beneficia a los que se llenan sus bocas del sudor ajeno; esto es, del pueblo.
Esta es tan solo una pequena introduccion a este nuevo espacio virtual en donde tu tambien puedes participar opinando y compartiendo tu cabeza con el pueblo.
The course is over. It was challenging and exciting.
