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Fiamma, thanks! In your work in Tijuana, you undertook to visualize some
structural power differentials -- right? -- in the aftermath of artist-cultural
interventions and programming by the project group InSite? In the mid-oughts ?
Did you assert anthropological analytics to visualize the
curator-artist-community triad? How did you use a feminist methodology - or
maybe feminist sensibility in this visualization as it took a swerve away from
your previous anthropological practice -- ?
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> On Jul 9, 2016, at 2:19 AM, fiamma montezemolo <fiammamontezem...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Hi all,
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> Many thanks for your discussion last week, I have been following it with some
> delays but with great interest.
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> I will try to jump into the conversation, starting mainly from my fieldwork
> which - as Christina mentioned - has consistently been located between art
> and anthropology. I've been dwelling in this milieu for the last 20 years.
> More recently, inspired by Susan Hiller in particular, I've moved away from
> academic anthropology which was based on my long term fieldwork in Mexico (at
> the border between TIjuana and San Diego, where I resided for 6 years). As a
> result, I have attempted to translate my work into an artistic practice with
> the aim of bypassing the questionable divide between theory and practice,
> between the conceptual and sensorial. In my research-based art, I began to
> create inter-media, inter-disciplinary and cross-genre interventions being
> particularly interested in those practices that reflect on the border as a
> mobile category of experience, of sensible AND conceptual mediations,
> disciplinary negotiations, and geopolitical articulations. My very first
> video work has been in Chiapas with the Zapatistas during the '90s:
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> http://www.fiammamontezemolo.com/#faceless
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> My focus at the time was on gender and ethnicity from a 'post-feminist'
> perspective (Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, Renato Rosaldo, etc.). Since
> then, of course, I moved on to other topics and themes because an
> 'identity-politics based' orientation became 'majoritarian', so to speak,
> borrowing from Deleuze and Guattari.
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> At the moment, my major preoccupation is to visualize my research-based art
> practice through various media forms:
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> 1) fieldwork intimacy through apps:
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> http://www.fiammamontezemolo.com/#fieldwork-notes
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> 2) Ecological problematics, primarily via installation work:
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> http://www.fiammamontezemolo.com/#the-3-ecologies
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> 3) border issues, primarily via the video-essay form:
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> http://www.fiammamontezemolo.com/#traces (password: fiamma)
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> Looking forward to having more stimulating conversations,
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> Fiamma
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> Fiamma Montezemolo
> www.FiammaMontezemolo.com
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