Ep. 75: Repost Merendiando with José Torres Tama
September 7, 2022
“He is vocal and He is loud and he is engaging and as I said before he is an amazing human being. He is an artist, he is a poet, he is so many things. He is really from that generation of Artists who work with so many different disciplines”.– Beatriz Pizano
“All I’m doing is pointing out the obvious – and that’s avant-garde in a country that dares not to look at itself and its own atrocities in the mirror.” – José Torres-Tama
This week we are doing a repost of José Torres Tama episode from Season 3 as he makes his way to Toronto for the Rutas Festival! And to help us introduce this Repost Episode we invited Aluna Theatre’s Artistic Director Beatriz Pizano as she shares with us her excitement about this artist. Don’t miss Aliens, Immigrants & Other Evildoers at the Rutas Festival.
Original text from episode:
In this episode we dive into the responsibility of the artist, laptop activism, solidarity between Latinx, Undocumented, and Black people, and the urgency to continue creating and sharing new work during these pandemic times, including the latest releases in José’s series of Video Cortaditos and Picante Performance Poems on YouTube.
José Torres-Tama is a writer, poet, journalist, renegade scholar, educator, visual and performance artist based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He explores the effects of mass media on race relations, the underbelly of the “North American Dream” mythology, and the anti-immigrant hysteria currently gripping the United States of Amnesia, “which seduces you to embrace forgetting”.
For more information about the RUTAS FESTIVAL.
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