monolito

INDIGESTO

2009-07-06T10:18:00.000-07:00

No confunde el hambre con las balas
No sale a marchar por el pan
No deja de llorar al recuerdo del calor.

La verdad,
Le hacía más feliz la mesa bien servida porque no es agradable sentir el humo del estómago achicharrándose con el ácido del plomo recién digerido.

La verdad,
Le gusta escuchar la radio para no oír la sirena persiguiendo a los herederos de la miseria que corren por las calles de cartón mientras gritan por su vida drogados de odio.

¿De quiénes son los alaridos?
Luces rojas brillan desde la montaña cañón mientras hago papel maché con los restos de mi esperanza. ¿Quién la necesita cuando el ácido del hambre no te deja digerir tu último trozo de dignidad?

No le interesa
Si pudiese vivir encerrado en la vistosidad del araguaney ya se hubiese cortado como un gesto de patriotismo.

(Poema y dibujo de ytaelena lópez)

YTAELENA LOPEZ: My resume, as an artist

2009-04-23T15:50:00.000-07:00

Education

2007 - Present Figure Drawing - Michael Markowitz Study.
San Francisco (CA)
2006 M. S. in Mass Communication - Spanish Language Journalism
Florida International University, Miami, FL
2006 Graduate Certificate in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (LACC)
Florida International University, Miami, FL
(2004 Bachelor in Arts - School of Literature [completed coursework]
Universidad Central de Venezuela/ Universidad Católica Andrés Bello)
2003 Bachelor in Mass Communications – School of Journalism
Universidad Central de Venezuela
1997 - 1998 Narrative Workshop - National annual contest - Caracas -
LATINOAMERICAN STUDIES CENTER “ROMULO GALLEGOS” (CELARG).
1995 - 1996 Comics Drawing course - School of comics Lopez and Acosta
1995 - 1996 Painting and sculpture - Cristobal Rojas Art School
Caracas, Venezuela

Honors and Awards/Grants

"Best Contemporary Installation" Award during the Dia de Muertos 2008 at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts, 2008, San Francisco (CA)

CELARG Annual Fellowship for study literature with a prestigious Venezuelan writer, 1997 - 1998, Caracas

Monte Avila Editores. Book: “Voces Nuevas”, 1997 – 1998, CELARG

Bibliography

KPFA Radio San Francisco - The host Darren D' Leon interviewed Ytaelena Lopez (artist), Río Yanez (curator) and Candi Farlice (artist). (Radio 2050) Saturday, October 4th, 2008.

Crosscurrents (KALW) Radio, 10/27/2008, broadcasted also in KPFA Radio San Francisco at 6:30 pm.

El Tecolote - "Día de los Muertos en tiempos de cambio" Sally Douglas Arce, SomArt, Oct 02, 2008.
El Reportero (Local newspaper of San Francisco) - "Bitch, Welcome to America" Edition #46, January 11, 2008
SFWeekly.com - "How To Keep Your Bitch Down" — A New Mission Play Dec. 14, 2008

Professional Affiliations

Volunteer, Artists Television Access

Volunteer coordinator, Mission Arts & Performing Project

Member, National Association of Hispanic Journalists

Exhibitions

- Miscelaneous Flesh (paintings), City Art Gallery, San Francisco April 2009

- The Living Map (Interactive installation with photography of Valentina Vitols), Maison Bleu during the MAPP (Mission Art Performance Project). February 7, 2009

- HOT! HOT!! HOT!!!, Erotic Art. City Art Gallery, San Francisco (CA) February 2009. (Collective)

- Mujeres (Action painting and art work) Maison Bleu during the MAPP (Mission Art Performance Project). December 6, 2008

- 85@85, 3rd annual International Juried exhibition. MiArte Gallery, Coral Gables (FL) December 2008 - February 2009. (Collective)

-Muerte sin fronteras, Dia de muertos exhibiton, MCCLA (Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts). November 2008. (Collective), San Francisco (CA). Her installation "Virgen de la Diversidad" was awarded as a "Best Contemporanean Art Installation".

- Day of the Dead in a Time of Change (Collective), SOMARTS Cultural Center, October - November 2008, San Francisco (CA).

- FEMINAS (first international breast cancer exhibition), Galería Locarno, Talca, Chile October 2008.

- Illussion 7 Dreams/ Sueños (Collective), MCCLA (Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts). September 2008, San Francisco (CA)

- Bitch, welcome to America (window installation), Artist Television Access, January 6 -31, 2008, San Francisco (CA)

- BITCH: pavlovian solutions for the modern home, (video performance), Artists’ Television Access, December 2007

- 2008 ATA (Artists' Television Access) Silent Art Auction (Collective), Receiver Gallery, January 26, 2008

- Actos Criminales (Collective poetry performance with Poetas en Tránsito) - Biblioteca Nacional, Caracas, September 27, 2003

- ANI-MALES (Multimedia installation / Performance), Salon de Jóvenes Artistas, Galería Universitaria, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas July 4 and 8, 2002

Related experience

I am journalist and writer at the same time. I have a poetry book published and I live to incorporate poems in my work. My experience as a online journalist is reflected in the extensive investigation that I use to do as a preparation for some installations, as you can see in the online multimedia map of "Mission, the virtual afterlife" in SomArts.

My concerns about immigration and minorities comes when I moved to Miami, where I studied Journalism Research specializing in Latino minorities. It was there when when I was touched in very intimate way by the drama of immigrants. The sensation of No-Place and their agony under the Ulysses syndrome, besides the poverty, it is a constant in my work.

Webpages:
http://ytaelena.com
http://arteyta.wordpress.com/

(Picture of Adrian Arias during ILUSSION SHOW VII)

THE TIED POEM (Ytaelena's Installation) @MAPP December 2008

2009-04-22T16:23:00.001-07:00

THE TIED POEM (Ytaelena's Installation) @MAPP December 2008
Originally uploaded by alrevez

TIDES

And I looked me
in the mirror,
and the sea
came out
of my eyes

(Yta's poem)

"The tied poem", by Ytaelena López
Mixed media
2008
This installation is made as a reflexion about the gender violence. The voice of the woman (represent in the poems) is tied with robes to a physical condition (the tree). Though this way, the woman is exposed to the humillation to made public her intimacies (represent in the underwear), unable to do nothing.
The result? the gradual physical and emotional disintegration, the annihilation of her femininity.

Art vs. Crime: How the Mission's artists are helping neighbors feel safe after episodes of lethal violence

2009-04-17T13:58:00.000-07:00

This history was filmed by Cassidy and appeared at SANFRANCISCO I AM

Discussions of the dichotomous nature of the Mission approach tedium, with shootings in front of valet stands, or the whole delicate flower thing creating enough dramatic tension to launch a thousand newspaper columns.The organizers of the Mission Arts Performance Project (MAPP) aren't content to just wring their hands: they're doing what they can to boost the Mission's thriving arts community while acknowledging its more challenging sides with their bi-monthly, multidisciplinary, intercultural event night.Connecting visual artists, musicians, poets, dancers and poets, MAPP weaves together storefronts, warehouses, studios and homes to form an art walk that seems to turn into a huge multi-block party. Homeowners lay down stages in their living rooms, scraggly artists gussy up and serve hors d'oeuvres.The night of Saturday April 4, MAPP held its bi-monthly multidisciplinary, intercultural event night. Connecting visual artists, musicians, poets, dancers and poets,

Thank you, Cassidy!

Miscelaneous flesh@ City Art Gallery

2009-04-14T22:51:00.001-07:00

Ytaelena Lopez´show

March 2009
Café Chan Chan

April 2009
City Art Gallery

About Miscellaneous flesh

"Where are you from? In this time, you have the option to choose where you want to belong. It is a huge privilege that allow us to go more far away that a physical place or a racial identity. We can build an identity based in our vision of a better world, a new trans-cultural "American Dream". But for to do that, we have to accept that we are, we was, as a point of begin.

In my case I am woman, I am Latina, I am immigrant, I am a Yta.

I have to deal with the haunting of all the thing that I left behind me: the violence, the absence of hope, the death, the minority tag.

But I have the option to move forward to the person that I wanted to be: Yta.

Home lives in myself, come where I am come, it is my flesh.

If I want freedom, I have to take the responsibility in that change.

It is not a miscellaneous issue. "

Core Synronism by Karen Fox

2009-04-03T13:27:00.000-07:00

Because this is a blog for support the talented people, I am copping the email that I received from Karen Fox:

I am offering Core Synchronism sessions this month in my home, and wanted to let you know. Please feel free to tell your friends and colleagues about this offer.

For April I am discounting the sessions for dancers, circus people and my friends. The usual cost is $125. In April the discounted sessions cost $50. Please let your peeps know, and make an appointment for yourself.

This is great work, as most of you have already experienced at least once. I have continued to study and last Halloween I received my full certification. It is important for me to practice...and also I want to get a sense of how this work will be received in the bay area. So, by partaking, you are helping me out as well.

Thanks,

I hope this email finds you rich in the qualities of you life.

Karen

Core Synchronism is a system of bodywork designed to assist Nature in establishing harmony with all parts of the organism, via the Vital Force and the Cerebrospinal fluid. All aspects of self are synchronized to the Soul Breath to access and release states of imbalance, trauma, pain, etc. completely from the system.

Core Synchronism is a gentle palpatory approach to healing and harmony. Healing is stimulated by deep states of relaxation. Core Synchronism is deeply relaxing, safe and gentle. This work is based on the philosophy of natural therapeutics, cranial osteopathy, polarity therapy as well as the palpatory and philosophical discoveries of Robert Stevens. Core enables a practitioner to access all layers of the physical and energetic/causal bodies to release disharmonic patterns from their source.

"Choose love and creativity over fear and divisiveness"
Bella Deluxe Entertainment
The Deluxe Mystery School of Feminine Wiles and Wisdom

If you want to know more, please leave your contact info in this post.

Karen will performance tomorrow April 4, 2009 at MAPP. For to know more, see locations:

The Living MAP: geo-tagging the dreams

2009-02-08T19:54:00.001-08:00

La huida

2009-02-08T13:28:00.000-08:00

No tengo las mismas montañas
Donde la selva esconde el aroma
De mi amado trópico cruel que araña
Ni la pegajosa humedad me entrampa
En su piel de gotas de seda

Que me ata con transpiración de cadenas

Con sueños de concreto,
Con balas de pena
Con candelas de desencanto
Con una renuncia que quema

Y ME FUI

Quería ver otras estrellas

Pero el azul no es el mismo
Y a veces lloro de pena.

(Ytaelena López, 2009)

Hot! Hot!! Hot!!!

2009-02-05T16:44:00.000-08:00

El viernes 6 de febrero del 2008 se inaugura la colectiva Hot!Hot!!Hot!!! en City Art Gallery de San Francisco.
Como el nombre sugiere, se trata de una muestra de arte erotico.
Las piezas con las cuales participo son las siguientes:

$350

$200

Esta ultima, a la que titule "Dirty Blond" por error, esta a muy, pero muy buen precio para la maravilla de pastel, a la cual la foto no le hace justicia).

Si te interesa alguna de las piezas, no dudes en escribir

2009-01-31T20:56:00.000-08:00

Name of the show: THE LIVING MAP: geotaging the dreams
Kind: A multimedia interactive installation
Where: The Blue House
When: February 7, 2009 8 pm to 10 pm
Who: Valentina Vitols and Ytaelena López
Description: THE LIVING MAP intent to do a cartografy of the hopes of the people that moves all around the America Continent.
The map have windows with photografies of childs (made by the Seattle based artist Valentina Vitols) and drawings of adults from Latin America (made by me), in a effort to give a human face to the abstract notion that we have of America (the whole continent). The people are invitingto write in post-it and locate in the map the place that they would like to be right now and why.

I (Pronoun)

2009-01-11T01:58:00.000-08:00

No me había dado cuenta que estaba participando en la expocisión "I (pronoun)"

Estaba tan ocupada tratanto de sobrevivir que me olvidé que, hace mucho tiempo atrás, había mandado mi autoretrato a Projekt30, una galería virtual de EEUU.

En esta galería también he participado en las siguientes colectivas:

A Dark glaskly

Y el mundo giró y desparramó esperanzas para el 2009

2008-12-31T10:59:00.000-08:00

"Y el mundo giró y se desparramó sobre sí mismo"*
Ytaelena Lopez
Acrílico sobre tela.
20x20 inches
2008

Tengo mucho que agradecerle al 2008, especialmente las oportunidades que me ha dado con respecto al arte. Una de ella fue mi participación con la obra de arriba en la muestra 85@85 en la galería MiArte de Coral Gables, FL. Este espacio tiene una especial significación para mí por cuanto durante fui una asidua visitante de esta galería por casi dos años. No podía evitarlo, me quedaba a mitad de camino entre mi trabajo y el estacionamiento. ;)

Si aún no han visto esta maravillosa colectiva, se las recomiendo. Son 85 obras de 85 artistas de diferentes procedencias, exhibidas en esta minúscula pero encantadora galería. Y como bono adicional, les cuento que este viernes 2 de enero es viernes de galerías en Coral Gables, es decir, todas las galerías abren sus puertas de 7 a 10 pm para que te tomes un vinito y la pases "chevere", como dicen en mi patria.

Los datos de la galería son:

miArte Gallery
85 Merrick Way
Coral Gables, FL 33134
305.445.2783 (Gallery)
305.445.2780 (Fax)
info@miartegallery.com

Sé, con el favor de Dios y trabajo duro que me va a ir muy bien el año que viene. También sé que no soy la única, por cuanto a ustedes también les va a ir excelente. Lo importante es no perder la fé.

¡Feliz año 2009!

Dreams

2008-12-11T22:02:00.000-08:00

About me, as an artist

2008-11-28T21:57:00.000-08:00

(Picture of the installation "Virgen de la Diversidad")

Yta is a Venezuelan artist who has been doing poetic performances since 1998. Her first projects were with GrupoGrama, a multimedia art collective in Caracas that promotes new artistic talent and cultural events in alternative public spaces. The most popular was the video-installation ANI-MALES, which was presented at the Salon for Young Artists in the Universidad Central de Venezuela (among other places) and the video performance GREEN-PE, THE INFECTIOUS. Both are available in her website BITES (http://ytapoems.wordpress.com/). She is the author of two books: Voces Nuevas of Celarg-Monteavila (1998) and Pliegues (2007).

Yta studied a year of drawings with the School of comics Lopez and Acosta at the same time as painting and sculpture at the Cristobal Rojas. After that, she dedicated to finish a career in Social Communication in parallel with another in Literature. During that period, among other things she worked as a reporter for culture and making a couple of curatorship.

Then Yta came to Miami in the United States, where I studied Journalism Research specializing in Latino minorities. It was there when when she was touched in very intimate way by the drama of immigrants. The sensation of No-Place and their agony under the Ulysses syndrome, besides the poverty, it is a constant in her job.

San Francisco (CA) was the next stop and the return to my first vocation. Immediately upon arrival (2007) went to study art by Michael Markowitz. It also does other video-performace with my husband called ‘BITCH: pavlovian solutions for the modern home’ on the application of scientific methods for the social conditioning of women immigrants in Artists’ Television Access. In the same gallery, in January 2008, Yta did a pictorial multimedia installation called “Bitch, welcome to America.”

Yta participated in the Illussion 7 Dreams/ Sueños in Mission Cultural Center with a painting performance last September.

Now she is working on the “Mission: The Virtual Afterlife” project, a interactive map installation exhibited during the show Day of the Dead in a Time of Change at SOMARTS Cultural Center in San Francisco, between October 10 and November 4, 2008. At the same time she is doing another installation in the Dia de Muertos exhibition at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco that was awarded as "Best Contemporanean Installation" of the exhibition.

She also participated in FEMINAS: Primer salon internacional de mujeres pequeño formato, acerca del cancer de mamas (First international salon about breast cancer) at Galería Locarno in Talca, Chile.

Yta combines poetry, painting and performance in work focused toward tolerance and self acceptance. She shows common worries -identity, violence y femininity- though her own person, to write a fiction in images where there is no clear the border between public and private issues, between she and you.

¿Ethnic dilemmas, sadomasochism, moral voyeurism, pleasure and guilty? You have to decide whatever is in here or here.

"I LIVE HERE!" / Yo vivo aquí

2008-11-28T20:57:00.000-08:00

A veces siento que álguien camina a mi lado
que me espía, me sigue, me vigila
esperando que cruce la esquina de la 16th St.
o que responda al llamado de los murales
de la Outer Mission en la 24th St.

Es el miedo,

Miedo cabrón, miedo asesino
que me dejen sangrando en el suelo
como a los siete,
que serán ocho,
que espero no sean nueve,
que rezo no sea yo
la próxima en la línea de fuego.

Yo no quiero vivir en un cementerio
yo no quiero enterrar mis esperanzas
yo no quiero llorar a mis hijos muertos.

Por eso les pido,
que hagamos un alto a la violencia,
que el río del odio no separe al Norte del Sur
que nos reconozcamos como una familia
y podamos vivir en paz.

(Poema de Ytaelena López pintado como mural para la instalación Mission: The Virtual Afterlife en el SOMARTS Gallery, San Francisco durante octubre-noviembre 2008)

Acerca de mi, como artista

2008-11-27T14:54:00.000-08:00

Hola, mi nombre es Ytaelena López y comparto con buena parte del mundo mi pasión por el arte, mi condición de inmigrante y ser parte del género femenino, en el cual se sufre y goza al mismo tiempo.

Mientras otros se criaban haciendo deportes, yo pasé por todos los cursos de arte que se podían encontrar en Venezuela. Incluso estudié un año de dibujos con la Escuela de comics Lopez y Acosta al mismo tiempo que pintura y escultura en la Cristobal Rojas.

El arte quedó en punto suspensivo mientras terminaba mi carrera de Comunicación Social en forma simultánea con la de Literatura y Filosofía. Durante ese periodo trabajé -entre otras cosas- como reportera de cultura y haciendo un par de curadurías.

Fue en esos años (2000- 2003) cuando nació el GrupoGrama, un colectivo de arte multimedia con el cual realizé varios performances poéticos (¿no les había dicho que soy poeta?). El más popular fue la video-instalación ANI-MALES, que se presentó en el Salón Universitarios de Jóvenes Artistas de la Biblioteca Central de la Universidad Central de Venezuela (además de otros sitios más) y el video-performance GREEN-PE, MEGAINFECCION POETICA, que se encuentra disponible en la red (http://almainsolada.blogspot.com/).

Luego llegué a Miami en los Estados Unidos, donde estudié Periodismo de Investigación con especialización en minorías latinas. Allí me tocó en forma muy íntima el drama de los inmigrantes, con su disyuntiva de No-Lugar y su agonía bajo el Síndrome de Ulises, como si no fuera poco con la pobreza.

San Francisco (CA) fue la siguiente parada y un retorno a mi primera vocación. Inmediatamente al llegar (2007) entré al estudio de arte de Michael Markowitz. También realizé otro video-performace junto con mi esposo llamado 'BITCH: pavlovian solutions for the modern home' sobre la aplicación de los métodos ciéntificos para el condicionamiento social de las mujeres inmigrantes en Artists' Television Access. En esa misma galería independiente expuse durante todo enero del 2008 ese y otros videos en una instalación pictórica multimedia llamada "Bitch, welcome to América".

Ahora estoy con ustedes, compartiendo mi trabajo desde la red en:

http://ytaelena.com/
http://tinyurl.com/artyta

My proyect "The virtual afterlife" was in radio!

2008-10-27T21:05:00.000-07:00

My project "The Virtual Afterlife" was in radio twice!

The first time was in KPFA Radio San Francisco, in the Radio 2050 the Saturday, October 4th, 2008. Thanks to Darren D'Leon (the interviewer), Río Yanez (curator), Candi Farlice (artist) and Sally Arce (P.R.).

The second time was in the program Crosscurrents (KALW) of 10/27/2008, broadcasted in KPFA Radio San Francisco at 6:30 pm. Thanks, Kristi Coale

:D

Drenada

2008-08-11T16:00:00.001-07:00

Uploaded by www.cellspin.net

Dibujo y audio de Ytaelena López

Estrellita de mar/ Little starfish

2008-06-26T23:02:00.001-07:00

Estrellita de mar
Originally uploaded by alrevez

Porque a veces no estoy aquí
y me quedo sin aire
esperando el retorno del azul
azuzando la huida.

----------..--------

Because sometimes I am not here
without air
waiting the return of the big blue
instigating the flight

(Ytaelena López)

Tenazas

2008-03-25T12:50:00.000-07:00

Un cangrejo vive en mi garganta,
Bueno... vivía
Al desaparecer el miedo,
Ya no hay palabras para comer
Tampoco oxígeno,
El corazón se robó el grito,
También el aliento,
El pobre no cabe en el torax,
digo, el cagrejo,
y asoma sus tenazas por un ojo.

¿Nunca has sentido el mordisco
que te despierta llorando luto?

Un silencio vive en tu casa,
se acaba de mudar
conmigo.

A crab lives in my throat,
Well ... Lived.
When the fear disappears,
There were no more words to eat
Nor oxygen,
The heart stole the cry,
The breath also,
Poor! Too small is my chest,
For the crab
And their pincers scape for an eye.

Have you ever felt the bite
that wakes you up crying, mourning?

A silence lives in your house,
It has just moved
With me.

(Art and poems of Ytaelena López)

Tides / Marea

2008-03-19T17:26:00.000-07:00

Y me miré al espejo,
Y el mar salió de mis ojos
Y fui libre
De ser tu despojo.

And I looked me in the mirror,
And the sea came out of my eyes
And I was free
Of your remnant to be.

P.D.: Dibujo y poema de Ytaelena López. Video también.

Zuas!

2008-03-06T08:59:00.000-08:00

I like the nobility
Of those who lose their lives in battle
Especially if they do it in front of me
On the grill

Me gusta la nobleza
De quién pierde su vida en batalla
Principalmente si se encuentra frente a mí
A la parrilla

(Dibujo y poema de Ytaelena López)

Morbido

2008-02-13T10:22:00.000-08:00

En serio
No quise hundir mis dedos
Sobre tu piel esponjosa
Quizás sólo cavar

Seriously
I didn't want to sink my fingers
Into your spongy skin
Maybe only to dig

Dibujo y poema de Ytaelena López

AM

2008-02-11T18:37:00.000-08:00

Te estaba esperando
Sin paraguas
Danae
Y amanecí empapada
¿Tú no?

--..--

I was waiting for you
Without umbrella
Danae
And arose, soaked
Did you not?

Dibujo, video (Reyes Point) y poema de Ytaelena López

GREEN-PE, the poetic infection

2008-01-24T18:20:00.000-08:00

"Are you already sick of art? The only way to know it is try our test: try to become a poet with our poetic karaoke.
If you get bored, don't worry, you are OK. You won't become a looser.
If you fell the soul of the verse when you repeat it, you are infected.
If you are so, maybe you have to try our vaccine: try to life with stolen works."

Video-art made by Ytaelena López and Koral García (GrupoGrama) in 2002 with the collaboration of many Venezuelan poets.