Caribbean Times 88th Issue - 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