Fulana

Na nossa mesa tivemos o prazer de conhecer o trabalho das Fulanas. Um grupo de ativistas latinas residentes nos Estados Unidos. Representando o grupo, a porto riquenha MARLÈNE RAMÍREZ-CANCIO. Recomendamos, com prazer, uma visita ao trabalho das quatro artistas. O site é o www.fulana.org

Fulana is a video collective in that emerged as the vision-fusion of four New York-based Latina artists joined by a love of video and performance, a critical gaze, a bilingual sense of humor and —most of all— a shared desire to create art within a collaborative onda. So we put our Spanglish brains together, drank some coffee, and founded Fulana in 2000. Through parody and satire, we explore themes that are relevant to Latino cultures in the U.S., delving into the nuances that bind our experiences, experimenting with strategies to make visible what we’re so often made to read between the lines. Our work, whose aesthetic ranges from cable-access kitsch to Telemundo tinsel, consists mainly of mock television commercials, music videos and print advertisements. Focusing on popular culture, we respond to the ways ideologies and identities are marketed to us, sold to us—and how we sell ourselves—through the mass media.

Por Daniele Ricieri