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'Spanic
Attack is a multi-arts collective allied
through a Latin/o American* sensibility. A New York City
based organism that serves as communicative link between
diverse scenes of emergent and independent art, wherever
they may be. Partakers in the mingling of creative media,
we produce and present arte-facts and collaborative events
that underline the continuity of genres from poetry to
film, from dialogue to music to parties. Our network aspires
to offer viable tactics to elegantly transcend the lived
solitude of migrant artists when confronted by the annoying
strategies of industry and the false stereotype that art
without sponsorship is non-viable. The easiest stance is
to stay within the bombardment of art from the surface.
If sometimes it seems we can’t
find one another it's precisely because we refuse to seek
each other out.
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| Libertad
O. Guerra: is
a social anthropologist and founder/director of the ‘Spanic
Attack multi-arts collective, for which she has produced films,
independent CD's, and co-founded Alamala Press. She holds
an MA in psychological anthropology and is currently pursuing
post-graduate studies in aesthetic politics and urbanism at
NYU. She has been a guest speaker at cultural studies and psychoanalysis
symposia in New York, Québec, Galicia and Berlin. With
'Spanic Attack (2003 - present) she has coordinated several
international artistic caravans, produced cultural and music
festivals, and has generally facilitated encounters and collaborations
between New York-based independent artists and emergent and
established artists from numerous Ibero-American capitals.
A keyboardist by tradition and choice, she plays for Caribbean
post-punk band objet Petit a/el objeto since 2001.
On the geographical front, she has recently acquired a summer
home in Istanbul, near the Galata Bridge, but lives and is
an activist in the South Bronx where she hosts the Bronx Salon,
a platform for public discussion on urban issues and placemaking
in the private environment of a brick-house. |
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Monxo
López: is
a South Bronx-based Puerto Rican composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist,
and sonic svengali for the arts organization 'Spanic Attack.
He has played throughout the US and Latin America, collaborating
with Rafo Ráez, Bobby Blue, and Edwin Torres, and
serving as lead guitarist for various rock bands. His 'Spanic
Attack productions include Rebio Díaz's CD haciacontradesde
(2003) and Urayoán Noel's performance DVD Kool Logic
Sessions (2005). He has also composed soundtracks and incidental
music for art shows and films, and is the author of numerous
polemics, tracts, and critical writings, most notably: the "Impertinent
Manifesto" (2000). He is currently a doctoral student in
political philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. |
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Ulla
Dalum Berg: Anthropology professor and documentary
filmmaker of viking origin (danish). A resident of El Barrio
since 2004, in the last seven years she has undertaken and
completed social and anthropological research on migration
and displacement in Perú, and in Peruvian communities
in the United States. She has also worked as an assistant for
many documentary productions in Perú, Bolivia, and Denmark,
as well as in various Latin American film festivals. Esperando
Milagros (2003) is her directorial debut. She is currently
a doctoral candidate in the Departament of Anthropology at
New York University, where she is completing her doctoral research
on transnational Peruvian migration, diasporic nationalisms,
and cultural communication practices. She is also currently
teaching at Rutgers University, in New Jersey. She has collaborated
with ‘Spanic Attack since 2003.
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Urayoán
Noel: Puerto Rican poet and performer. Lead vocalist
of the rock band objet petit a. Author of the books of poetry:
Las flores del mall (2000), Kool Logic / La
lógica
kool (2006, Bilingual Press), and Boringkén (forthcoming,
Ediciones Vértigo). He has published poetry,
fiction, essays, manifestos, rock criticism, translations, and
horoscopes in numerous journals and periodicals in Puerto Rico,
the U.S., and other oblique netherworlds. His poetry appears
in various anthologies, such as Los nuevos caníbales
v.2: antología de la más reciente poesía
del Caribe hispano (Isla negra), and eXpresiones: generación
X (Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña). He has participated
in readings, recitals, and diary raids at the Nuyorican Poets
Café (Nueva York), Shakespeare & Co. (París)
and in San Juan and Lima, as part of 'Spanic Attack. A graduate
of the University of Puerto Rico (Río Piedras) and
Stanford University, he is now pursuing his PhD. at the
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese at NYU. He lives in the
Grand Concourse, near Yanquee Stadium.
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Díaz: Puerto Rican singer/songwriter based
in New York. In late 2003 he released his first cd, haciacontradesde (2003),
recorded by Producciones Alamala. He has presented his work
at numerous cultural spaces in New York and Puerto Rico. He
is the bassist of, and a vocalist for, the rock band objet
petit a, with which he visited Perú in August, 2003.
He holds a master's degree in community social psychology from
the University of Puerto Rico (2000). He is currently completing
doctoral studies in Environmental psychology at the Graduate
Center (CUNY) and teaches General Psychology at Hostos Community
College, CUNY. At present, he is working on his second cd, el
lugar en lugar del lugar, and on a research project on
cultural processes in the South Bronx. |
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