Caribbean Times 88th Issue - Thursday 8th September 2016

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8 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g Thursday 8th September 2016
Thursday 8th September 2016 c a r i b b e a n t i m e s . a g 9 New Media showcases Food For Weapons and Light The work of seven contemporary Venezuelan artists examining power and violence and their relationship to the body - will open the trinidad+tobago film festival (ttff) New Media showcase, on Wednesday 21 September, from 7.00pm at the Big Black Box in Woodbrook. Curated by Venezuelan experimental filmmaker, Sandra Vivas, Food For Weapons questions the manipulation of power in Venezuela and the methods used to prevent protest and uprisings – control of food, medicines, water and the media. “The title Food For Weapons, refers not only to the food shortages and violence in Venezuela, but also to the fact that ideas can be seen as food. A reminder that hunger can be both a dangerous oppressor and the most dramatic motivator for ultimate liberation. Ideas can be both food for thought and weapons of change”, says Vivas. The exhibited work undermines established discourse through intimate narratives that are either taboo or simply ignored. According to Vivas, several of the artists have been politically perse- Image from Oblivion by Anna Rosa Rodriguez cuted for their work – some of which is day 24 September, at 9pm, also at Big deliberately shocking and only suitable Black Box. for a mature audience. The artists use North Eleven projection artists are their body as an instrument, recognizing it as a battleground where violence between visuals and how the audience especially interested in the interaction is often enacted through hunger, torture interact with them. Working with multiple technologies and interfaces ‘Light’ or menace, and seek to recreate it as a channel of liberation that is democratic is a live audio-visual performance that and universal. incorporates projection mapping & Food for Weapons will be followed murals, live digital graffiti & motion by a second New Media installation design, and live visuals. From lo-tech ‘Light’ by North Eleven, on Satur- mediums such as string, paper, wire mesh and cardboard, to the latest audio-visual applications, and collaborations with fellow artists, illustrators, painters and musicians, North Eleven will transform the Big Black Box into a stunning canvass of mixed media artwork. North Eleven has been the ttff’s official technical partner since 2010, working extensively with the community development programme to bring free community cinema to numerous communities throughout Trinidad and Image from Selective Migration by Luis Poleo cont’d on pg 10
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