Video Independiente Mexicano
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Opening and special projection on Thursday, May 4, at 8 pm
Video Independiente Mexicano is an exhibition which will present many recent works by Mexican video artists, bearing witness to the recent developments, numerous trends and esthetics currently embodied in the contemporary independent video milieu of Mexico. The exhibition is constructed around ten themes which are specifically designed and explored: animation and computers, the medium and the sacred, women making videos, the world, the video magazine, the body and the senses, the city, multidisciplinary and experimental, the documentary, the “isms”, Chicano, and the subway. It is the first exhibition of this scope to be presented in Montreal.
The Chicano art phenomenon will be very important to observe in the following years. It is difficult to predict the ways in which the Chicano and the Mexican cultures will interact. NAFTA will become an important cultural catalyzer and, in fact, a time compressor. In the contemporary art world, there is a risk that the Chicano artists will displace the Mexican artists since this system often expects, if not requires, Mexican art to be highly “nationalistic” and “folkloric”.
A catalogue will accompany the exhibition and the curators will be present at the opening. A special selection of videos will be presented as part of the conference Borders & Culture hosted by McGill University in February 1995.
This exhibition is organized in collaboration with OPERA (Overture Pancultural for Exchange & Realization of Art), an artists’ collective connecting Canada, Mexico, Europe and India, and the Museo de Arte Alvar y Carmen T. de Carrillo Gil as part of a program of exchanges between Canada and Mexico.
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Juan José Diaz Infante is an artist and a freelance curator.
Elias Levin is the curator of video at the Museum Carrillo Gil. They have been assisted by Rocio Ceron.