‘Spanic Attack is a South Bronx-based organization that seeks to bring together artists from various disciplines and backgrounds, and to serve as a bridge between these artists and various New York City communities. While focusing on New York City Latino or Latin American art, our orientation is multicultural, in keeping with the borderless and “mutant” ethos of the city.

Latin American expatriate and diaspora artists have long exerted a decisive influence on the cultural landscape and civic life of New York City, but these artists have often had to struggle to find one another and to find an audience. ‘Spanic Attack works to remedy this situation by:

1. Curating and producing events (festivals, concerts, roundtables, panels, exhibits, reading series) where New York City artists and communities can come together and interact in new and unconventional ways.

2. Producing, releasing, and distributing works and artefacts in various formats (e.g. poetry books, music CDs, performance DVDs, films, art catalogs) by independent artists who share our ethos and vision, and whose work, for whatever reason, remains outside the strictures of the art marketplace.

3. Serving as a liaison between New York City artists, community groups, and arts organizations, in an effort to showcase emerging and lesser-known Latin American and Latino artists.

4. Creating transnational networks (e.g. an interactive online artists’ database; weblogs, journals, and forums; international conferences; artists’ exchanges and workshops) which bring together artists from various urban centers, from New York City and its outer boroughs to Latin American metropolises such as San Juan, Santo Domingo, Mexico City, Lima, and Buenos Aires.

As an extension of its curatorial and community work, and in keeping with its mission, Spanic Attack seeks to serve artists and organizations in a variety of ways...