Balut Salon with Jose Luis Benavides
@ PO Box Collective
Opening Saturday, June 13th, from 1PM - 2:30PM
Title: “two months without an outburst and I’m good to goâ€
In these “unprecedented times†we have seen time-based mediums and moving-image capture devices serving as the primary method of connecting us all throughout the global pandemic. I see video’s potential to be one of the most generous mediums, providing space for care and storytelling. Via live streams and digital meeting rooms across the world, video’s capability to mobilize and unify us has never before been so pushed to the forefront of our minds, our work, and our everyday challenges for survival.
This one-hour collection of short videos (video poems, video-art and video essays) engage a broad range of aesthetic approaches to my activism and interests in social justice as a queer, Latinx artists from Chicago. I started working with performance and poetry in video while preparing my portfolio for graduate school. This practice evolved as my primary medium because I see video-art as an accessible and egalitarian tool for resistance. I believe the ubiquity of cellphone cameras and our almost universal access to language and our own bodies position video-art as one of the most compelling means of expression and activation of ideas, emotions, poetics, and politics utilizing one’s own power as the primary catalyst and subject.
~ Jose Luis Benavides
www.joseluisbenavides.com
Zoom link will be shared with people who mark “going” on the Facebook event. Alternatively, email poboxcollective@gmail.com for the link.
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