International House Philadelphia: Program Guide Fall 2013 | Page 20
La Cueva Negra Tuesday, October 22 at 7pm An Evening with Beatriz Santiago Muñoz Beatriz Santiago Muñoz’s errant cinema composes a visual love of signifying Puerto Rico and other “disappearing landscape[s].” It poeticizes a radical dance with images that breach the fascisms of the everyday and make life from a polluted world and reckless economic system. Santiago Muñoz instead proposes that, “A radical artwork can move thought forward, rather than simply replicating the political analysis. Art is a way of thinking through forms, of working through forms” (Radical Form, 2008). In distinction to what history says did happen, or dogma says should happen, art is defined as an intensely subjunctive “unreasonable hopefulness”: form looking for other forms of thought. Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, who has screened at the Tate, CCA Wattis Institute, and Museo Rufino Tamayo, among other venues in the Americas and Europe, will be present for conversation, and will be introduced by the filmmaker and scholar, Franklin Cason Jr. Curated by Mary Ebeling and Rachel Ellis Neyra. This program is presented by The Penn Cinema Studies Program, The College of Arts and Sciences, The Department Latin American and Latina/o Studies, and The Department of Hispanic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel University.
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Folc-Industrial La Cueva Negra
dir. Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, 2012, digital, 20 min.
La Cueva Negra is a moving image project and photo series which explores the Paso del Indio site as a layered repository of symbolic and material histories. The site is well known in the archaeological community. Twenty years ago, during the construction of a multilane highway, a complex (possibly Archaic, definitely Pre-Taíno and Taíno) indigenous burial site was discovered and many objects and remains recovered. But the site was paved over for the construction of the expressway. Paso del Indio visibly holds many conflicting histories, embodied in the landscape and built environment. Farmacopea
dir. Beatriz Santiago Muñoz, 2012, 16mm, 6 min.
Farmacopeas are catalogs of plants and their uses. Farmacopea is a visual and text-based work on the relationship between historical processes and the natural landscape of Puerto Rico.