Yanez-Lazcano

young legends

I miss this space of growin and listening. a space that was less defined by fleeting rewards and recognition. a space to grow.

Song #7 - 2023

Francis Alÿs - Cuentos Patrióticos

It was in fact one of the best panels I’ve been to in many years. The precision of each speaker, the clarity of content and the positioning of their respective works alongside historical texts and image makers left me filled with inspiration. Aaron’s work left me asking questions about my own work with regard to abstracting the body. I look forward to investigating this more deeply. 

time, nonlinear, sound transformation, archive, future archives, futurity, posterity, intergenerational, lineage, analog to digital to analog

there was an overlap of lifetimes this past weekend, i felt it. 

Mark was one of the first folks I met after moving to the Bay Area. A lovely person. A skilled and talented eye behind any lens. He falls easily within the category of folks who make life rich and further remind me that I haven’t met all of my friends yet. 

A foundational performance in parafictional art by Coco Fusco and Guillermo Gómez- Peña, The Couple in the Cage: Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit the West was performed at various venues from 1992–1994. Perhaps its most potent performance was staged at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, a museum institution that has a legacy of displaying human subjects (such as for during the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition) and continues to present exhibits on non-Western cultures under the banner as of natural history. Many museumgoers who witnessed the performance believed Fusco and Gómez- Peña to be actual representatives from an undiscovered island, and though the Field Museum was did not displaying them as human oddities, the colonial legacies and ongoing issues of exotification, racism, and power invoked by the performance were very real. Fusco’s later performance works, such as A Room of One’s Own, engage with similar issues.

Willem Dafoe - Mind the Gap

Still Here.

Nao Bustamante - Sans Gravity 40 minute performance 1993-2003

Do Ho Suh  Hub, Ground Floor, Union Wharf, 23 Wenlock Road, London N1 7SB

Christine Sun Kim - with a capital d

600 lb chocolate cube and 600 lb lard cube gnawed by the artist, 27 heart-shaped packages of chocolate made from chewed chocolate removed from chocolate cube and 130 lipsticks made with pigment, beeswax, and chewed lard removed from lard cube 

Piero Manzoni - Artist breath

Staring at the sun, 2020 ©victor yañez-lazcano