Post Tagged with: "latin america"

How did the pandemic impact Mexico’s culture and independent art? (Video column by Adela Goldbard)

January 23, 2023 in Polivision Content, Video columns 0 comments

From the militarization of the citizens to socially committed art, Mexican artist and professor Adela Goldbard helps us understand Mexico’s situation and challenges after the pandemic. This video column is part of our series on Reimagining Latin America After the Pandemic.  Adela Goldbard is an interdisciplinary artist/educator/scholar from Mexico City. […]

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Latin American Alternative Indie from Spain [MUSIC REVIEW]

March 23, 2022 in Reviews 0 comments

The songs of Temporada de Pesca [Fishing Season], the latest album by Martin Guerra, will probably appear on exquisitely curated playlists of Indie Alterlatino. Martin Guerra, a Peruvian musician based in Madrid, has produced an experimental and hybrid album that combines Latin American musical traditions—the Afro-Peruvian being a crucial one—with […]

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Afrotrónicos: the new sounds of Afro-Peruvian electronic music

September 27, 2020 in Listas Comments are Disabled

During the second decade of the new millennium, several Peruvian artists embarked on musical projects that articulated Afro-Peruvian culture with the sounds of contemporary electronics. Translocal styles such as grime, dubstep, trap and global bass were freely synthesized by these musicians to weave a rhythmic and sonic curtain. Jaws [quijadas] […]

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Reinventing History and Language: 10 Peruvian Artists Under 45

September 16, 2020 in Listas Comments are Disabled

Archeological expeditions of the past to question the present and reinvent the future, Peruvian contemporary art goes beyond superficial layers. Selection and text by Peruvian art curator Luisa Fernanda Lindo.  1.CLAUDIA MARTINEZ-GARAY (1983) Martinez-Garay‘s work takes existing images to review and question the past. Her work reads the remains that […]

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10 Female Directors Showing that Mexican Film is More than Roma

May 30, 2020 in Listas Comments are Disabled

Female Mexican filmmakers are on the rise. Miranda Leggett reviews some of these active directors working on multiple genres and telling under-the-radar stories. Each of the women director included has won at least one national or international prize. Esta lista incluye directoras actuales de México que han trabajado en géneros […]

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