Cultural bodies

 Abdel Hernandez San Juan Cultural Bodies Art criticism as anthropology of art          Stablished living in Texas as permanent resident since 1998 Abdel Hernández San Juan is a theoretician and writer author of books such as Rethinking Urban Anthropology, Anthropology of archaeology: A Perspective from Ethnometodology and cultural anthropology, The Intramundane Horizont: Hermeneutic and Phenomenology of Everyday Life, The Indeterminist True, Being and Monad, Self and Acervo: The Self and the social between writing, research and culture, The Thresholds of the Couple: Self-Ethnography,  The World Correlate: Interpretant and Structure in Posmodern Cultural Theory, Given and the Ungiven, The Presentational Linguistic, The Constelations of Common Sense: sociology of common sense and anthropology research theory, amongst many others.      A Guest Scholard of the faculty of sociology and anthropology of the lake forest college of Illinois...

  Cultural Bodies: Cristina Jadic (USA). ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan,  Houston, Texas, USA Ethnographer and Cultural Theorist, Research Associate,  Anthropology Department- Rice University Cristina Jadick is a young Cuban American Artist born in the United States. Her visual work is characterized by a strong personal style, that places  us on a new and provocative road at the intersection between the languages of Contemporary Art and cultural performances that explore identity and memory. Today in a world of growing information complexity and generalized markets, the definitions of  "the aesthetic" as well as "the beautiful" are outdated.  The aesthetic, in a highly pragmatized universe, acts as a therapeutic vehicle to define the  everyday experiences and becomes an ideal place to explore cultural resonances and values that may not be expressed in the typifying language of common sense. The exhibit presented here, "Cultural Bodies", is an example of ...

 Culture in Art from Texas (USA) ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan,  Houston, Texas, USA Written and composed in English by abdel Hernández san Juan  Texas culture is a unique phenomena in the unites States. While there are of course to many interpretations on the issue given the fact that Texas has embodied seen from outside of the state several stereotypes of common sense meanings such as for example the image of Texas as the main land of the oil, on the one side, or as the state which capsulate the more technological and modern towns of the country toward ideas of future cities and or by being the land of nasa, such outside stereotypes creates an image of course unrecognize Texas cultural specifities.    There are as ever to many ways of course to afford culture but one of the often privilege way to go in deep around a culture revolves around discussing its art.    In this sense instead of discussing Texas culture by affording it as a text directly I wou...

  Alchemies of the Sense: Arturo Duclos (Chilean). ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan,  Houston, Texas, USA      The recent work of Chilean artist Arturo Duclos, in particular his series Serifot that he is exhibiting at Sicardi Gallery as part of Armonia Chimica, is among contemporary Latinoamerican art one of the most complete expressions of the postmodernist game with the seduction of meanings. We are confronted with an artist who invites the viewer to walk on the subtle edge that exist between our distance and our identification with the most mundane values of popular culture. The artist avoid the official representations to show the distance between what it is and what it should be.       Ordinary and extraordinary, timid and extroverted, circumspect and charming, vain and sophisticated, vulgar and aristocratic, what are this canvases expressing. One hand we find a syncretizing operation in which the artist has gathered in one space the aesthet...

  Neither Inside, Nor Outside ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan    The work of LIHIE TALMOR functions as a film of the subversive unconscious. Her works fix and retain, in a sort of miniature map of the semiotic memory of the group, the tiny settings of conscience, the meticulous task of separating and uniting, holding back and liberating. There, where the individual is alert, attentive to what he sees and to what happens, in that space of tension where the accent of conscience is formed, LIHIE builds small texts which work as nodules, hinges, transit structures representing nothing but the very gesture making them, the accumulation that makes words and actions probable.    The work of LIHIE TALMOR is not a window refracting reality as its reference, nor a simulacrum writing substituting reality under the illusion of a collection of topics. In her works, "the city", "the body" and "the memory" are inclusive; the constructive shapes of the pieces permeate from i...

Translating cultures: Asian American art and culture ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan,  Free Lance Ŵritten and composed in English  By Abdel Hernandez Sa    Ken aŵazu is an Asian American and yet also interestingly a Japanese art curator and graphic producer, who begging his carrier initially stimulated by both individual cultural experiences such as being established around 12 years living in Neŵ York and being at the same time a japanice regarding his family acerbos, he born in Japan and speak both English and Japanese, but earlier stay living in EUA and this experience in Anglo-American multicultural society positibly impacted his curiosity to explore and to a certain point archaeologies his oŵn cultural backgrounds, ŵhile his oŵn neŵ yorkian western urban point of vieŵ also placed him among our oŵn generation of Americans between globalized metropolitanism and a neŵ age sensibility to looks out respectfully cultures values and an ambiguous, so bloŵred, shifted relati...

  Non-Siting the Site: A Summer home ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan Havana Written and composed in English  by Abdel Hernandez San Juan   Brian Deutzman a young Anglo-American filmmaker from New York has recently finished his short movie A Summer Home. The film itself is one of the best films I has seen in many years.    It suggests certain relations between how the eye worked in the aesthetic of surrealism earlier films and Posmodern figures explored, however, in a form that seems to move beyond such figures, even when probably still some very subtle almost evanescent echoes or clues of remedos, pastiches and parodies may be perceived yet behind, it is not only less than usually in Posmodern works but almost diluted inside a more spiritual and metaphysical artistic whole that suggest to be a previous form to a concept he is actually exploring in his current new film, that one of metafiction.   In A Summer Home the concept of metafiction is not as focused yet...

 The Degree Zero of the Screen: The Eye Body in a Summer Home ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan Written and composed in English  by Abdel Hernandez San Juan   I should speak in only five minutes, I written a paper on the movie Non Siting the Site, but it is to letlee time not only to read that paper but even to maintain a lecture of only five minutes constrained by a longer paper, from this point I will try to discuss some new issues while also doing some relations between this issues and the paper.   I am interested in a concept trying to continue my theory on a certain relation between Deutzman movie an the effects of the eye of the camera in earlier surrealism, that one of the optical unconcient developed by Rosalind Krauss.  Certainly this concept of the optical unconcient is related not with the idea of the optical provided by op art when all we have in front of us visually are the lines, colors, surfaces and special effects of oculars phenomena’s physicall...

  Cinema and Gesture: Regarding Image and Gesture in A Summer Home ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan Written and composed in English  by Abdel Hernandez San Juan   The main concept that can relate how cinema is in the very side of film and in the very side of the visual arts, can be the concept of gesture in its relation with the concept of cinema    Let develop how can we theorize and discuss this.    I will first want to explain how gesture is evolved and major to understand how the imagination of cinema started to be considered from the visual art meaning now only the plastic arts coming from painting, drawings, photography, etc., let then late discuss how gesture can be theorized and discussed in cinema coming from the very side of film recording far from the plastic arts meaning discussing it as a matter of the camera and let after try to theorize and discuss how to relate as well as difference both sides    The first way to start to include ...