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The School of Panamerican Unrest |
ABOUT THE PROJECT
The School of Panamerican Unrest is an artist-led, not-for -profit public art project that seeks to generate connections between the different regions of the Americas through discussions, performances, screenings, and short-term and long-term collaborations between organizations and individuals. Its main component will be a nomadic forum or think-tank that will cross the hemisphere by land, from Anchorage, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina, in Tierra del Fuego. This hybrid project included a collapsible and movable architectural structure in the form of a schoolhouse, as well as a video collection component. The project, which seeks to involve a wide range of audiences and engage them at different levels, offers alternative ways to understand the history, ideology, and lines of thought that have significantly impacted political, social and cultural events in the Americas.
After its official launch in New York, the SPU initiated its road trip in Anchorage. From May 19 through September 15, the SPU made 27 official stops. The journey was documented in video footage that will result in a documentary to be launched in 2007. Daily updates of the trip are documened on this site. A virtual bilingual forum discussing aspects of this trip was initiated in January of 2006 and can be accessed at http://espanol.groups.yahoo.com/group/forovirtualpanamericano
Initiated by Mexican artist Pablo Helguera, and with the support of more than 40 organizations and more than 100 affiliated artists, curators, and cultural promoters in the Americas, The School of Panamerican Unrest responded to the need to support inter-regional communication amongst English, Spanish and Portuguese speaking America, as well as its other communities in the Caribbean and elsewhere, making connections outside its regular commercial and economic links. In contrast to Europe, which over the years has been orchestrating its cultural integration through an open flux of dialogue, many Latin American countries still have a limited cultural exchange amongst one another, and often limited to the connections offered by the hegemonic points such as New York, Miami, or even Madrid. Many years after the initial impulses by various Latin American intellectuals such as José Vasconcelos, Simón Bolívar, José Martí, who once envisioned a unified cultural region in the Americas, this project seeks to revisit and evaluate the meaning of those ideas during the time of the Internet and post-globalization.
In the debates, programs and roundtable discussions, the project will seek to articulate and debate issues that pertain to local concerns around culture and society. We also seek to discuss ways through which artistic practice in the Americas can acquire an influential role in public life, political, cultural and social discourse, enriching their respective communities in a productive and proactive manner.
As an artistic project, the SPU seeks to innovate by combining performative and educational strategies, creating new forms of presentation and debate about political and historical subjects and creating a discussion infrastructure that will break with the usual academic formats, and the predictable means of communication and debate that are normally used in the art world.
The project is inspired by the travel itineraries of those who once crossed the continent, ranging from missionaries, explorers, scientists, revolutionaries, intellectuals, writers, and others. In the utopian spirit of those who once conceived the Americas as a unified entity, the SPU will cross the continent literalizing the very idea of Panamericanism.
The journey waas completed in September of 2006, and the documentation of it will be brought together in the form of a publication, a documentary and a traveling exhibition starting in 2008.
FROM EYAK TO YAGHAN
The beginning and end of the Schoolhouse road trip was marked by meetings with the last living speakers of two Native American languages. In Anchorage, the SPU interviewed Marie Smith Jones, the last speaker of Eyak, a native Alaskan language. The end of the trip was marked by meeting Cristina Calderón in Tierra del Fuego. Calderón is the last speaker of Yaghan, a native language of Tierra del Fuego.
SCHOOLHOUSE PROGRAMMING
On each of its stops, the SPU offered a number of public programs in collaboration with its host.
FILMS
As a special component of the onsite programming planned as part of the School of Panamerican Unrest, we offered a special program of experimental video and documentary films on the Americas, in collaboration with the organizations Cinema Tropical and Women Make Movies.
Cinema Tropical, is a not-for profit organization based in New York that promotes, programs, and distributes Latin American Cinema in the United States. The SPU schoolhouse will feature a program of experimental video from Latin America in collaboration with Cinema Tropical.
Women Make Movies is the largest distributor of films and videotapes by and about women in the world. A program compilation of film works will explore subjects around the Americas such as history, social and political issues.
DISCUSSIONS
At each stop, the School facilitated a discussion/roundtable with local participants on a subject that is of both local and Panamerican relevance. The discussions will be summarized in the daily blog, and papers and other information will be posted on this site. A full list of discussion topics is listed on the "Itinerary" section.
WORKSHOPS
At each stop, Pablo Helguera conducted writing and performance workshops, which concerned the discussion on the subjects related to the visit and the writing of short performance speeches that participants will be encouraged to perform at the Panamerican Ceremony.
PANAMERICAN CEREMONY
The SPU presented a civic ceremony event, presenting the Schoolhouse to the public and the presentation of a commemorative plaque to the local host. The ceremony will include a speech and the performance of the Panamerican Anthem, an orchestral composition by Pablo Helguera.
Pablo Helguera archive:
http://www.pablohelguera.org
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ABOUT THE PROJECT
The School of Panamerican Unrest is an artist-led, not-for -profit public art project that seeks to generate connections between the different regions of the Americas through discussions, performances, screenings, and short-term and long-term collaborations between organizations and individuals. Its main component will be a nomadic forum or think-tank that will cross the hemisphere by land, from Anchorage, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Argentina, in Tierra del Fuego. This hybrid project included a collapsible and movable architectural structure in the form of a schoolhouse, as well as a video collection component. The project, which seeks to involve a wide range of audiences and engage them at different levels, offers alternative ways to understand the history, ideology, and lines of thought that have significantly impacted political, social and cultural events in the Americas.
After its official launch in New York, the SPU initiated its road trip in Anchorage. From May 19 through September 15, the SPU made 27 official stops. The journey was documented in video footage that will result in a documentary to be launched in 2007. Daily updates of the trip are documened on this site. A virtual bilingual forum discussing aspects of this trip was initiated in January of 2006 and can be accessed at http://espanol.groups.yahoo.com/group/forovirtualpanamericano
Initiated by Mexican artist Pablo Helguera, and with the support of more than 40 organizations and more than 100 affiliated artists, curators, and cultural promoters in the Americas, The School of Panamerican Unrest responded to the need to support inter-regional communication amongst English, Spanish and Portuguese speaking America, as well as its other communities in the Caribbean and elsewhere, making connections outside its regular commercial and economic links. In contrast to Europe, which over the years has been orchestrating its cultural integration through an open flux of dialogue, many Latin American countries still have a limited cultural exchange amongst one another, and often limited to the connections offered by the hegemonic points such as New York, Miami, or even Madrid. Many years after the initial impulses by various Latin American intellectuals such as José Vasconcelos, Simón Bolívar, José Martí, who once envisioned a unified cultural region in the Americas, this project seeks to revisit and evaluate the meaning of those ideas during the time of the Internet and post-globalization.
In the debates, programs and roundtable discussions, the project will seek to articulate and debate issues that pertain to local concerns around culture and society. We also seek to discuss ways through which artistic practice in the Americas can acquire an influential role in public life, political, cultural and social discourse, enriching their respective communities in a productive and proactive manner.
As an artistic project, the SPU seeks to innovate by combining performative and educational strategies, creating new forms of presentation and debate about political and historical subjects and creating a discussion infrastructure that will break with the usual academic formats, and the predictable means of communication and debate that are normally used in the art world.
The project is inspired by the travel itineraries of those who once crossed the continent, ranging from missionaries, explorers, scientists, revolutionaries, intellectuals, writers, and others. In the utopian spirit of those who once conceived the Americas as a unified entity, the SPU will cross the continent literalizing the very idea of Panamericanism.
The journey waas completed in September of 2006, and the documentation of it will be brought together in the form of a publication, a documentary and a traveling exhibition starting in 2008.
FROM EYAK TO YAGHAN
The beginning and end of the Schoolhouse road trip was marked by meetings with the last living speakers of two Native American languages. In Anchorage, the SPU interviewed Marie Smith Jones, the last speaker of Eyak, a native Alaskan language. The end of the trip was marked by meeting Cristina Calderón in Tierra del Fuego. Calderón is the last speaker of Yaghan, a native language of Tierra del Fuego.
SCHOOLHOUSE PROGRAMMING
On each of its stops, the SPU offered a number of public programs in collaboration with its host.
FILMS
As a special component of the onsite programming planned as part of the School of Panamerican Unrest, we offered a special program of experimental video and documentary films on the Americas, in collaboration with the organizations Cinema Tropical and Women Make Movies.
Cinema Tropical, is a not-for profit organization based in New York that promotes, programs, and distributes Latin American Cinema in the United States. The SPU schoolhouse will feature a program of experimental video from Latin America in collaboration with Cinema Tropical.
Women Make Movies is the largest distributor of films and videotapes by and about women in the world. A program compilation of film works will explore subjects around the Americas such as history, social and political issues.
DISCUSSIONS
At each stop, the School facilitated a discussion/roundtable with local participants on a subject that is of both local and Panamerican relevance. The discussions will be summarized in the daily blog, and papers and other information will be posted on this site. A full list of discussion topics is listed on the "Itinerary" section.
WORKSHOPS
At each stop, Pablo Helguera conducted writing and performance workshops, which concerned the discussion on the subjects related to the visit and the writing of short performance speeches that participants will be encouraged to perform at the Panamerican Ceremony.
PANAMERICAN CEREMONY
The SPU presented a civic ceremony event, presenting the Schoolhouse to the public and the presentation of a commemorative plaque to the local host. The ceremony will include a speech and the performance of the Panamerican Anthem, an orchestral composition by Pablo Helguera.
Pablo Helguera archive:
http://www.pablohelguera.org
La escuela panamericana del desasosiego es un proyecto artístico independiente, sin fines de lucro, que busca generar conexiones entre las diferentes regiones de las américas a través de discusiones, perfrmances, talleres, muestras de video, intervenciones, y colaboraciones a corto y largo plazo entre individuos y organizaciones. Su componente principal consistió en una estructura arquitectónica portátil en forma de una escuela de campo dentro de la cual se realizarán varias de las actividades. La estructura colapsable se insertó dentro de una camioneta con el objetivo de realizar el viaje terrestre por todo el hemisferio, desde Anchorage, Alaska, hasta Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego.
El objetivo del proyecto fue el de contactar a una gran variedad de públicos e involucrarlos en diferentes niveles. A través de estrategias diversas, se buscó instigar un diálogo que abordara temas de interés local relacionados a la historia, la ideología y líneas de pensamiento en las américas, así como problemáticas culturales y artísticas.
Después de su lanzamiento oficial en Nueva York, la EPD inició su viaje terrestre desde Anchorage. Del 19 de mayo al 15 de septiembre, la escuela realizó 27 paradas oficiales. El viaje fue documentado en video. El material grabado constituirá un documental que será presentado en el 2008 (versiones preliminares de este documental se han presentado ya en Mérida, San Francisco y Chicago). Se contó con un foro virtual a través del cual se comentaban y debatíanlos incidentes y diálogos que se realizaron en el trayecto: http://espanol.groups.yahoo.com/group/forovirtualpanamericano
Iniciado por el artista mexicano Pablo Helguera, y con el apoyo de más de 40 organizaciones y 100 artistas, curadores y gestores culturales afiliados a nivel hemisférico, La Escuela Panamericana del Desasosiego responde a la necesidad de apoyar la comunicación interregional entre las Américas de habla española, inglesa y portuguesa, así como otras comunidades en el caribe y demás, facilitando vínculos fuera de los actuales intercambios comerciales y económicos entre estas regiones. En contraste con Europa, que a lo largo de los años ha estado orquestando sus vías de diálogo cultural entre sus países, en latinoamérica se cuenta con un intercambio limitado entre naciones, siendo este limitado a puntos hegemónicos como Nueva York, Los Angeles, Miami o Madrid. Muchos años después de los impulsos iniciales por pensadores latinoamericanos como José Vasconcelos, Simón Bolívar, José Martí, quienes en sus momentos imaginaron la integración continental, este proyecto busca revisar de forma crítica las viabilidades e implicaciones del “sueño bolivariano” en esta era del internet y la post-globalización.
Para el proyecto se adoptó un formato semi-abierto de presentación con el fin de mantener una coherencia y “enfoque narrativo” en las discusiones, pero dando cabida a la improvisación para que los intereses y necesidades de debate en cada sede sean cumplidas. Si bien las pláticas no girarán exclusivamente en torno al arte o a la cultura, generalmente se enfocaron temas sociales o políticos desde un lente cultural.
Como proyecto artístico, la EPD busca presentar un nuevo modelo que combina estrategias de performance y educación, las cuales se implementarán en los debates, talleres y conversaciones. Tanto por su formato híbrido por la naturaleza de esta empresa, se busca romper con los formatos predecibles de discusión propios del ámbito académico y del mundo del arte.
El proyecto, que en su curso físico por el hemisferio trató de literalizar la noción misma del panamericanismo, se inspira en los itinerarios de viaje de muchos de aquellos que cruzaron el continente, desde exploradores, misioneros, científicos, revolucionarios, intelectuales, escritores, y otros. La documentación del proyecto se presentará al público en forma de publicación, documental, y exposición itinerante en el 2008.
DE EYAK A YAGHAN
El inicio y la conclusión del viaje de la escuela fue marcado con encuentros con las últimas hablantes de idiomas nativos de las Américas. En Anchorage, la EPD entrevistó a Marie Smith Jones, la última hablante de Eyak, una lengua nativa de Alaska. El viaje concluyó con la visita a Cristina Calderón en Tierra del Fuego. Calderón es la última hablante de Yaghan, una lengua nativa de Argentina y Chile.
PROGRAMACION DE LA ESCUELA
En cada una de sus paradas le EPD ofreció un número de programas al público en colaboración con su sede anfitriona, los cuales pueden ser consultados en la seccion "Itinerary".
CINE/VIDEO
Como componente especial de su programación, La EPD ofreció un programa de video experimental y de cine documental con énfasis en las américas, presentados respectivamente en colaboración con las organizaciones neoyorkinas Cinema Tropical y Women Make Movies.
Cinema Tropical es una organización sin fines de lucro basada en Nueva York que promueve, programa, y distribuye el cine latinoamericano en los Estados Unidos. La EDP ofrecerá un programa de video experimental de latinoamérica en colaboración con Cinema Tropical.
Women Make Movies es la distribuidora de cine y video de y sobre mujeres en el mundo. En colaboración con esta organización, se ofrecerá un programa consistente en una compilación de películas centradas en temas históricos, sociales y políticos relacionados a las Américas.
DEBATES
En cada parada la EPD facilitó un debate o mesa redonda con participantes locales sobre un tema escogido colectivamente y que tuviera relevancia tanto local como panamericana. Las discusiones se encuentran resumidas en el blog diario en el blog de esta página.
TALLERES
En cada parada, Pablo Helguera ofreció un taller de escritura y performance, con el objetivo de tratar los temas que se debatieron en las discusiones y de poder presentarse en la ceremonia panamericana.
CEREMONIA PANAMERICANA
A su paso, la EPD presentó un evento/ceremonia en el cual incluía la entrega de una placa o serigrafia conmemorativa a la sede anfitriona y se un discurso dirigido a la comunidad local. Asimismo se ejecutó la presentación del Himno Panamericano, una composición orquestal por Pablo Helguera basada en los himnos nacionales de los diferentes países americanos.
Archivo de Pablo Helguera
http://www.pablohelguera.org
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