Cuba Gives Critical View of Latin American Video Art

By Lazaro D. Najarro Pujol

Camagüey, Cuba, April 2.- A critical view of the Latin American contemporary video art was given by specialist in Fine Art Laura Baigorri, of the University of Barcelona, Spain, at the Sixth International Festival of Video Art in Camagüey (Fivac 2015), taking place here today.

After giving the lecture "No mas arte, sólo vida. 4.0. Del artivismo simulatorio a las tacticas de suplantacion en la Red," the professor stated in this city, about 570 kilometers east of Havana, that the network has been presented as "the best possible stage" to exercise social criticism from art perspective.

She stressed that the amplification of the diffusion potential Internet has provided "has been conclusively to make us fall on a reasonable technological determinism."

The professor of the Department of Design and Image at the University of Barcelona talked on the need for greater balance in the activist projects related to the art world spread through the network of networks.

The political strata of the western culture have never been destabilized by the effect of artistic proposals that questions some of its interests, since endogamy has already been commissioned by itself to hinder its dissemination beyond the purely artistic context," she said.

In the presence of creators and experts from 34 nations, the Sixth edition of the International Festival on Videoart in Camaguey, will deeply analyze today the trans-disciplinary movements in the work of Yvonne Rainer and Richard Serra, by U.S. professional dancer Kyle Bukhari.

Fuente: PL