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Directed by Juan Devis
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Program
offers a selection of 2002 works drawn from Southern California. The
work and artists' interviews crossover between Los Angeles and
San Diego and showcase Latino work from the social, political
and economic environments of each artist. Works in this
pilot program highlight the similarities and differences in artistic
production by Latino artists about cars in order to look at the
relationships their SoCal environments have on the artistic production
by Latinos.
This pilot is a high-end production featuring slick graphics and sequences in
which the audience is directly addressed by artist speakers. This program
uses the obvious methods of interviews with artists to reveal behind-the-scenes
production, following the artists through conception, production and exhibition.
Three
works and three artists include: Rubén Ortiz Torres, Class: C (Rubén
Ochoa) and Yoshua Okón.
About the Artist
Colombian-born Juan Devis wrote, directed, and produced this tape and other collaborative
multimedia projects focusing on social and political accountability. His public
media interventions are produced, from inception to realization, with local communities.
In all of his projects, Devis acts as an educator, editor and translator, embracing
a conception of art that has concrete social goals.
Recipient of the 2002-03 ABC/Disney Fellowship, Devis was nominated for a 2003
Rockefeller Fellowship for his experimental film The Dirt on the Road documenting
the perseverance of four immigrant families working in the Los Angeles service
sector. Other recent projects include the on-line video game Tropical America
(www.tropicalamerica.com)
that traces the genesis of the 1981 massacre of El Mozote in El Salvador and
Face-In (www.face-in.org),
ten in-depth portraits from
California's prisons.
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