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"A World that seems Off: Motorola's Mateo Guez Collabo"

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Blogger SHOP Program said...

I walked by this too and had similar reservations. At the end of the day i'm guessing its likely more useful/helpful for the images to be disseminated than not. Even the spinoff from things like this blog post means an minute raising of awareness of the poverty in this part of the Philippines.

Maybe its up to the artist in this context to make sure the corporate sponsor is also contributing to reducing the problems he/she is documenting....

May 21, 2009 at 8:34 AM

Anonymous A.K. said...

An art critic with a social conscience, and a well tuned moral compass: one of the reasons I enjoy reading uneditmyheart. Thanks.

May 21, 2009 at 10:30 AM

Blogger Leah Sandals said...

Thanks for the feedback guys.

I get the sense this is in many ways the artist's call -- as Michael suggests. The company maybe gave him the money to do what he wanted to to, and this is it? Maybe?

May 21, 2009 at 3:32 PM

Anonymous Andrew Mallis said...

Your conflicted feelings are à propos and shared.

We're having a closing party tonight (Sat) @ Camera Bar 7-9pm for the installation. We'd love to continue this discussion.

May 30, 2009 at 3:19 PM

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Dear Leah
I understand your reaction...
I'm just surprised, that, as a journalist, you didn't investigate more before presuming!
"Off World" is part of a largest aventure start 9 month ago...
There is an In World behind all that...
I made a documentary and a feature film...
Gave jobs to hundreds of people...
Worked in close collaboration with two foundation in Smokey montain...
Spent a years with this people and kids...
So all that is not about pity...
All that is about trying to give this people a future...
All that is about showing to the world that behind the poverty, those kids have something that we lost... faith, love, joy...
I know what I'm talking about....
OFF WORLD is the result of an intense, sincere, enormous work, who will make a change!
Don't hesitate to contact me if you really want to know, and not just react basicaly without doing real reaseach on how people work!
Best
Mateo Guez
matguez@rogers.com
http://theofilms.blogspot.com
http://adventuresintheoffworld.blogspot.com

May 30, 2009 at 5:22 PM

Blogger Leah Sandals said...

Thanks Mateo, I'm glad you joined the discussion here!

I think if I was doing an actual article on the work, I would have gotten in touch.

But I was basically responding to the work itself here -- and in a way, maybe trying to report on how everyday passerby (eg. me) might experience the work in its presented context.

Maybe in future it would be useful for you to include some information about your approach in your didactic panels & exhibition card materials?

I did look on your site and see that you had been working on a feature film "Off World" but the connection wasn't clear.

June 1, 2009 at 8:01 PM

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