II VVVIENAL DE VIDEO ARTE VALPARAÍSO

I really need to get to Chile...  The incredibly talented curator and artist Menru Silva Avila, just informed me that my work is featured in II VVVienal de Video Arte Valparaíso 2010!

II VVVIENAL DE VIDEO ARTE VALPARAÍSO 2010

29 DE SEPTIEMBRE AL 2 DE OCTUBRE

INAUGURACIÓN Y SORTEO GRAN RIFA GRAN“AUTOGESTIÓN ARTESANAL”

29 DE SEPTIEMBRE 20:00 HRS.CINE CONDELL / CALLE CONDELL 1585NOS TOMAMOS EL EX CINE PORNO!!!!

PROGRAMA GENERALMIÉRCOLES 29 DE SEPTIEMBRE20:00 Hrs. INAUGURACIÓN.VIDEO INSTALACIONES

21:30 Hrs a 23:00 Hrs.DATURA STRAMONIUMESTILO EXPERIMENTAL LIBRE + VISUALESINSTALACIÓN PERFORMÁTICA COLECTIVO COMBI-NATION / PA QUE TE PIQUE

JUEVES 30 DE SEPTIEMBRE

12:00Hrs a 13.00 hRSCONVERSACIÓN CON RITA FERRER / MODERA GUISELA MUNITA

15:30 Hrs a 22:00 Hrs.EXHIBICIÓN DE VIDEOS E INSTALACIONES.

21:00 Hrs a 23:00 HrsTETONESMÚSICA ELECTROACÚSTICA EXPERIMENTAL + VISUALESDJ FRACASO + VISUALESELECTRO PY

VIERNES 1 DE OCTUBRE

12:00Hrs a 13.00 hRSCONVERSACIÓN CON FRANCISCO HUICHAQUEO “EL DISCURSO POLÍTICO EN LA ESTÉTICA AUDIOVISUAL” / MODERA GUISELA MUNITA

15:30 Hrs a 22:00 Hrs.EXHIBICIÓN DE VIDEOS E INSTALACIONES.

20:00 Hrs a 21:00 HrsTERAPIA GRUPAL / MÚSICA EXPERIMENTAL + VISUALES ANÁLOGAS

21:00 Hrs a 22:00 HrsREINOSO SANTANA SMITH (ELECTRÒNICA Y CACHIVACHES VARIOS)

ESTARÁN PRESENTANDO UN HOMENAJE AUDIOVISUAL DEDICADO A LA MEMORIA DEL DR. JORGE KAPLAN MEYER Y SU EQUIPO, QUIENES REALIZARON EL PRIMER TRANSPLANTE DE CORAZÓN EN CHILE. PARA ELLO SE HARÀN VALER DE UNA SERIE DE IMAGENES PERTENECIENTES A LOS REGISTROS DEL DOCTOR KAPLAN Y QUE LLEVA POR NOMBRE "CUIDADANO DE BUEN CORAZÒN"DURACIÒN: 21 MIN.

ALE PEREZ: WWW.ELPUEBLODECHINA.ORG

SÁBADO 2 DE OCTUBRE

12:00Hrs a 13.00 hRSPREM SARJO y ROCÍO CASAS BULNES, DIÁLOGO ENTORNO A SU PERFORMANCE RAVOTRIL / MODERA GUISELA MUNITA

15:30 Hrs a 22:00 Hrs.EXHIBICIÓN DE VIDEOS E INSTALACIONES.

21:00 Hrs a 22:00 HrsCEREMONIA DE CLAUSURA.EDIFICA & PORTALUPPI / VJ DJ

EXPOSITORES II VVVIENAL VIDEO ARTE VALPARAÍSO

CHILE

CECILIA VICUÑA / GIOVANNI LONGO / FERNANDA BARROS / KLAUDIA KEMPER / PAULO FERNÁNDEZ / SENORITAUGARTE / MELANIA LYNCH / CYNTHIA JACKSON / ZAIDA GONZALES / CARLOS SILVA / JUVENAL BARRÍA / JESSICA BRUNA / PREM SARJO / FRANCISCO HUICHAQUEO / MATIAS BIGGS / VICTOR URZÚA / MARIANA GUZMÁN / FRANCISCA VILLELA/ GIANFRANCO FOSCHINO / PABLO VERGARA / MARÍA JOSÉ ROJAS BOLLO / PABLO ULLOA/ MYRÉN URIARTE / N.A.R / ALVARO HERZ / GABRIELA RIVER A/ FELIPE ROJAS / ELECTRO PY / DJ FRACASO / COME PERRO FUMA GATO/ TETONES / ANTONIA CRUZ / ROSARIO ATEAGA / MISS3SENORITAS / COLECTIVO LEPIDÓPTERO ACCIÓN DE ARTE AUDIOVISUAL

FRANCIAJEAN MARC LAMOURE / CAROLINE DELAPORTE / GEE-JUNG JUN / MOIRA TIERNEY

ALEMANIADAVID BUOB

POLONIAMARCIN POLAKARKADIUSZ SYLWERSTROWICZ

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CUBAANALÍA AMAYA

GUATEMALAMAYA ESCOBAR

SELECCIÓN DE VIDEOS CULTORES POPULARESCENTRO DE LA DIVERSIDAD CULTURAL DE VENEZUELA

SELECCIÓN GENERAL DE VIDEOS REALIZADA POR:VICTOR HUGO BRAVOFRANCISCO HUICHAQUEOCONSUELO ARRIAGADAMENRU SILVA AVILA

ITINERANCIA II VVVIENAL DE VIDEO ARTE VALPARAÍSO 2010COMPILACIÓN DE VIDEOS

PIA MICHELLE 30 SEPTIEMBRE AL 02 DE OCTUBRECASA BLANCA 13 OctubreQUILPUE 8- 9 OctubreVILLA ALEMANA 8- 9 OctubreQUINTERO 15-16 OctubreQUILLOTA 22-23 OctubreLOS ANDES 22- 23 OctubreVALPARAÍSO / ANIBAL PINTO29 - 30 Octubre / LANZAMIENTO PÁGINA WEBWWW.VALPOV.ORG

PATROCINANILUSTRE MUNICIPALIDAD DE VALPARAÍSOARTENLINEAARTEKESCANER CULTURALPLATAFORMA CULTURA DIGITALPIA MICHELLESABORIZANTE

PRODUCE CRUCE

Taking it to Tumblr

Prompted by a Google Alert and a recommendation from my friend Carrie Ferguson Weir, I decided it was time for me to set up shop on Tumblr.below are some of my favorite Tumbls:Andria MoralesIn addition to my own Tumblr blog, I also started a Frida Kahlo FANATIC blog Obsessed with Frida Kahlo*.some of my Frida Tumbls: Yasumasa Morimura Jason D’Aquino*Obsessed with Frida Kahlo, is a project I initiated in 2007 with Mexican artist Brenda Hernandez. Watch the video below to find out more:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxqo7aJtD0U]

gracias a la vida

Recently, I've been feeling pretty blue. My papi, being the wise man that he is, tells me to think about all the wonderful things I have going in my life- a family that loves me, a husband that adores me, a wonderful group friends that support me, and a drive and determination to make art at whatever means possible.He is right- I am a VERY lucky girl.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d_h5CZPyjQ]

Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto.Me dio dos luceros que, cuando los abro,perfecto distingo lo negro del blanco,y en el alto cielo su fondo estrelladoy en las multitudes el hombre que yo amo.Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto.Me ha dado el oído que, en todo su ancho,graba noche y día grillos y canarios;martillos, turbinas, ladridos, chubascos,y la voz tan tierna de mi bien amado.Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto.Me ha dado el sonido y el abecedario,con él las palabras que pienso y declaro:madre, amigo, hermano, y luz alumbrandola ruta del alma del que estoy amando.Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto.Me ha dado la marcha de mis pies cansados;con ellos anduve ciudades y charcos,playas y desiertos, montañas y llanos,y la casa tuya, tu calle y tu patio.Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto.Me dio el corazón que agita su marcocuando miro el fruto del cerebro humano;cuando miro el bueno tan lejos del malo,cuando miro el fondo de tus ojos claros.Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto.Me ha dado la risa y me ha dado el llanto.Así yo distingo dicha de quebranto,los dos materiales que forman mi canto,y el canto de ustedes que es el mismo cantoy el canto de todos, que es mi propio canto.Gracias a la vida que me ha dado tanto.

gallery of gifs

When Metanarratives CollideGetting ReadyRio Prayed for La Virgenel es frida kahlo

If you support Prop 8 and/or SB 1070 un-friend me on facebook

I am incredibly proud of my husband's Facebook status.Please feel free to repost on your own page:

___________ is fed up. If you support California's Proposition 8 or any of the Arizona anti-immigration laws, un-friend me now. NOW. Don't send me an email or comment on this post. This isn't a political issue, it's about avoiding the complacency-in-the-face-of-hatred that doomed 1930s Germany. How you can live with yourself is your own problem.

I hate that I don’t know what is coming next

repost from Are You My Other?I hate it. How can this be? I have a masters degree. Maybe art was the wrong way to go. But now that I am here, now that I have been systematically trained to see the world as an artist would, where does that leave me? I feel like I am no longer capable of normalcy. Not that being normal is what I want.I guess I also love not knowing what it is coming next.xoxoME

sea eleanor

My beautiful and incredibly talented cousin Eleanor Dubinsky has just released a new album entitled sea inside. I bought my copy last night and listened to it over and over... eventually falling asleep to her voice. My favorite tracks on the album are Missouri Sky and Estoy Sola.sea inside is available on iTunes for $6.95.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoiX1jjgNmg]

Explosion of Latina Bloggers

LATINAS ARE EVERYWHERE!click image to watch video on Today Mom'sCheck out interview with Blogueras Carrie Ferguson Weir of TikiTikiBlog.com and Bilingual In The Boonies, Melanie Edwards of ModernMami.com and Ana Flores of SpanglishBaby.com at BlogHer.And don't miss post on Wired Latinos on Blogs by Latinas founder Monique Frausto.

Updating About Me

Maya Escobar is a conceptual identity artist.

deconstructing the artist (myself), alongside the monument, alongside the monument's informational text...

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Bio for About Page 2010:Maya Escobar is a performance artist, Internet curator, and editor. She uses the web as a platform for engaging in critical community dialogues that concern processes by which identities are socially and culturally constructed. She performs multiple identities, sampling widely from online representations of existing cultural discourses. Her identifications as a Latina-Jewish artist, dyslexic blogger, activist and educator are indexed by the blogs she keeps, the visual and textual links she posts, the books, articles, and blog posts she cites, the public comments she leaves, and the groups she joins.Escobar received her MFA from the Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts, Washington University in St. Louis, and her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited work in Spain, Guatemala, United States, Germany, Venezuela, and Chile.Twitter Bio for @Maya_Ate_This 2010:I am a 2nd generation Latina artist, nutrition buff, and fitness enthusiast. Here, I'll be tweeting what I am eating as well as sharing beauty and fitness tips.Artista Disléxica Del Internet pt 1 of audition video for Reality TV Show on Discovery En Español 2010:[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T_8KzV8kLw]Short Bio for Acciones Plásticasプリクラ 2009:Maya Escobar is a Guatemalan-Jewish digital media and performance artist, currently living in St. Louis. Her work addresses issues of cultural hybridity, gender, placelessness, and the construction of identity.Bio for Conney Conference on Jewish Identity 2009:Maya Escobar is a Guatemalan Jewish digital media and performance artist. She received a BFA with an emphasis in Art Education from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is currently completing her MFA at Washington University in St. Louis. She can usually be found on the web blogging, tweeting, or youtubing. Escobar also serves as the online art editor for Zeek: A Journal of Jewish Thought and Culture. She has taught, performed and exhibited work in Germany, Spain, Guatemala, Puerto Rico and the United States.About Me for Maya E. on Jewish Wedding Network (2009):I have always lived between multiple worlds, I come from a Guatemalan Jewish American family of activists and educators. The planning of my wedding is like most things other things we do, a familiar and communal affair. In addition to the Bosa Nova band that will perform, my fiancee's band rock band Cavalry will be covering various Jewish tunes such as hava negilah and more.Breaking Down the Elephant Blog Post 2009:Some people think that I am the true representation of the elephant.It is true I am an elephant, but not the only elephant.I try to break up the conception of being the only elephant.Some people see a small portion of my work and think it is the whole- the representative elephant.Others understand that each piece connects to another piece and that individually they are only fragments.When breaking the elephant up into pieces, information slips in through the cracks.People also respond to this new information- creating a bigger more amorphous elephant.The amorphous elephant is broken up again and again, so that it is relevant to new individuals new experiences…Manifesto for MFA Thesis Exhibition Catalog 2009:As an artist and an individual, I am in constant conversation with the values transposed through multiculturalism. I seek to challenge notions of sameness, unity, and political correctness with pieces that affirm a sense of community for some, while paradoxically alienating others.Major influxes in international travel, technological advances, immigration, adoption, and intermarriage are causing the borders and boundaries between countries to merge together at an increasingly rapid pace. The imagined spaces of individual cultures are no longer autonomous.Therefore it is with a conscious move that I, and many colleagues and contemporaries, unapologetically go forward, breaking through traditional conceptions of art and artistic practice. No longer tied down to medium-specific practices, we produce work derivative of a multitude of discourses. The works that we produce, however, are distinct from those in the  fields that our work represents. We are concerned with the past, but we will not allow the past  to solely delineate the future. We hope to form a new definition of artistic practice that will include our constantly shifting environment.Short Web Bio for Stumble Upon 2008:MFA Candidate at Washington University in St. Louis. Current art/research centers around mental constructions of space and the social and political implications that result from these imagined boundaries. On this blog I share my random thoughts on hybridity, transnational and transcultural identities, liberal multiculturalism, critical pedagogy, feminist theory, latinidad, jewish life in america, youth culture...Bio for Acciones Plásticas at the Bruno David Gallery 2007:Maya Escobar is a Guatemalan Jewish interdisciplinary artist and educator. She is a recent graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she received a BFA with an emphasis in Art Education. She has taught, performed and exhibited work in Spain, Guatemala, Puerto Rico and the United States.  Currently, Escobar is pursuing a MFA in Visual Arts at Washington University in St. Louis.Bio for Camp JRF 2007:Maya Escobar is a Guatemalan Jewish interdisciplinary artist and educator. She is currently completing her degree in Art Education at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Sharing her non-traditional approach to exploring Jewish identity, Maya will expose campers to a wide variety of contemporary artists, artistic mediums and processes. Campers will have the opportunity to work both independently and as a collective, to produce work that inspires and participates in ongoing personal and communal dialogue.Artist Statement 2006:Through the performance of actual and fictitious moments of my life, I explore my personal identity as the daughter of a Guatemalan father and Jewish mother.  I compare the complexities of projected societal, cultural, and gender-determined roles to the lived experiences of Latina and Jewish women in our contemporary American culture. My work translates ongoing anthropological and sociological investigation into accessible narrative forms, incorporating technical skills in multiple mediums. As a commentary to the objectification and exoticization of otherness that I have personally experienced, I reclaim ownership of myself; I transform my body as well my “self” into an object used within the performed ritual, which is then documented through analog and digital photo, video and collage.

Blurring Boundaries Between Jewish Denominations

Excerpt from the Tzit Tzit: Fiber Art and Jewish Identity Exhibition Catalog, by curator Ben Schacter.

Maya Escobar is a Latina Jew who relishes her ability to blur the boundaries not only between cultures but Jewish denominations. Her Shomer Negiah Panites is an extreme example. The expression shomer negiah refers to the law that limits sexual relations. While a women is menstruating and for several days after, she is not allowed to touch her husband. At the end of this time, she takes a ritual bath called a mikvah.  This monthly ritual balances abstinence, cleanliness and intimacy.  It is said by those who follow this tradition that time together is made even more precious.Shomer Negiah Panties, 2005Escobar’s work seems to turn this custom on its ear.  First, sexuality in the Orthodox community is not publicly displayed.  Underwear or anything remotely like it would not be shown in public.  Second, part of the function of shomer negiah is one of modesty, not one to tease.  But in a twist of modernity, the “tease” can be a way of female control.  To exclaim, “Hands Off!” at precisely the moment of greatest vulnerability is exactly what Escobar’s underwear does.Heckshered Tallis presents an air of transgression without doing so.  A hecksher is a stamp placed on food to certify that its ingredients and method of processing follows the dietary rules observed by many Jews, called Kashrut.  The symbols themselves have nothing to do with prayer and do not belong on a tallis, or prayer shawl, but the obsessive imprimatur suggests an over compensation on the part of the wearer. Women are not required to wear such garments but some congregants of more liberal egalitarian congregations do.  Is Escobar suggesting women’s insecurity by obsessively certifying this tallis as “Kosher?”Kosher Davening, 2006The pattern of heckshers also creates a fashion akin to a Louis Vuitton print where the fabric is paradigmatic of luxury.  Hechshered Tallis brings high fashion and religion together in a satisfyingly truthful and critical way.  Even more interesting is the way Escobar’s work comments on different traditions and laws through fashion.  Escobar’s oeuvre highlights denominational fragmentation by drawing attention to certain details of Jewish life.  The traditional woman who follows shomer negiah would most likely not wear a tallis.  Identity is rarely mixed in this way.  For an artist to be able to make cross-denominational commentary such as found in Shomer Negiah Panties and Heckshered Tallis takes keen observation. Escobar does not exempt her own experience from such examination.As she shared with me, her family chided her to make napkins for her future, now husband.  This traditional role, that is to make the home, chaffed her mildly.  She was resistant to such commonplace assumptions about gender so to exaggerate the request, she embroidered “napkin for my husband” across hand woven fabric.  Her actions as a wife would thus never be taken for granted.Napkin For My Husband, 2007Napkin has been given an additional function, as a challah cover.  One covers the challah, or bread made specifically to honor the Sabbath, before the blessing is said and the bread is cut.  To embellish a cover heightens the ritual by making the objects beautiful.  Napkin tethers together Jewish practice and the work of a relationship.  Through her demonstrated knowledge of Jewish custom in her work, one wonders if she also knows Eishet Hayil, a song sung in  praise of one’s wife.  “A good wife, who can find?  She is precious far beyond rubies.” Perhaps Escobar is not so passive aggressively demanding to be serenaded.

Savvy Latina: Smart. Sexy. Stylish.

Recently I had the honor of being featured on Savvy Latina.

Savvy Latina is more than just an online publication; it’s a lifestyle.Savvy Latina is here to fill a void for today’s successful, stylized & sophisticated Latina. Savvy Latina is dedicated to keeping in step and following topics important to today’s Latina.Savvy Latina offers in-depth coverage of key figures in Latino culture, entertainments rising and accomplished stars, business leaders, politicians, policy makers and the Savviest Latinas.Image is everything but knowledge is the key. Savvy Latina is dedicated to keeping Today’s Latina looking good and well informed with the newest and latest. Savvy Latina’s mission is to make sure today’s Latina has a source dedicated to just who she is, a publication with a wealth of information on various topics important as well as entertaining to her.Savvy Latina was founded by a Latina and dedicated to Latinas with traditional beliefs but that are also craving some of the finer things in life that are well deserved as a result of our hard work and dedication we have put in to advance not only themselves but Latinas as a whole socially and economically.Today’s Latinas are not only influencing but are now directing government policy, business practices, arts, entertainment, fashion and a whole lot more.We are proud to present to you Savvy Latina. We hope you love it as much as we do.

Photo Booth Pt 2

Being a performance artist is fun. Having a mac allows you to seamlessly document your real life alongside your performance life. Can you tell which pictures are real and which ones are from performances?

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Jesus Makes a Short Lived Appearance in Portugal’s Playboy

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Google Frida

Frida on Google.

OffLine Photos

OffLine Video Art Exhibition in Valparaiso, Chile. Photos and videos by Menru Silva

Jaime Silva, Jessica Bruna, Juvenal Barría, Cynthia Jackson, Maya Escobar, Señorita Ugarte, Paulo Fernandez, and Kenru La Hermana Gemela Altiplánica

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el es frida kahlo

Be Wife

Offline en Chile

Muestra de videos en PIA MichelleDel 12-19 de AbrilAv. Pedro Montt 1842 Galería tres palacios Local 402Valparaiso, Chile

El viernes 16 de abril a las 19:00 hrs se proyectarán una serie de Videos que van desde stop motion, intervenciones urbanas y video arte experimental en la Plaza Aníbal Pinto de Valparaíso, previo a esto Pintor Z estará mostrando su trabajo con música de ordenador y visuales.Esta es una compilación de videos que se realizó a partir del proyecto denominado offline que se realizaría en el Parque O´higgins una semana antes que ocurriera el pasado terremoto , y que por causa de esto no pudo ser efectuado.La muestra busca dar a conocer el trabajo de artistas chilenos emergentes del área audiovisual experimental tomándose el espacio público y generando una intervención en si misma, además de hacer un cruce con otras miradas y culturas, en este caso con la artista de Guatemala Maya Escobar.

Photo Booth

Being a performance artist is fun. Having a mac allows you to seamlessly document your real life alongside your performance life. Can you tell which pictures are real and which ones are from performances?

Chicago Does Jibaritos a Cyber Banquet in East Rogers Park

This Saturday my friends and I participated in a Cyber Banquet (virtually) hosted by artists Lisa Link and Io Palmer. Here is a re-post of my post on Lisa and Io's site serve & project, documenting the evenings proceedings.

Cyber Banquet hosted in Chicago at Sandi and Stacey's apartment.Follow the Tamalero on Twitter http://twitter.com/tamaletracker.Caldo de Pollo in the making.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/nPr_n5PJ7a0]Chicago Does Jibaritos[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/Nd5NhW6V6o0]A New York Bagel[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/Nr8Dbbx0E5I]The Pig Roast[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/v/kAKtUfbGNQk]I Lost Myself To Good Cooking

Solberg/Cruzen at the Craig Elmer Modern

The Boys at Mi Ranchito, 2010

Jacob Cruzen and Dan Solberg are taking Saint Louis by storm with their exhibition Solberg/Cruzen, opening tomorrow night at the Craig Elmer Modern. Solberg/Cruzen promises to be filled with positivity, mysticism, and finely crafted objects.

Solberg/Cruzen Exhibition of New WorkFebruary 20th - March 20thCraig Elmer Modern3194 South GrandSt Louis, MO 63116