RIOS DORADOS, RELATIONAL, ANTIRELATIONAL, EXPLOITIVE AESTHETICS, 2021
BY JESUS CRUZ & ARON HILL
A collaborative book with Jesus Cruz investigating ideas about Relational Aesthetics through prose and poetry and drawings.
The musician Gibrana developed a sound dialogue / interpretation with the poems and performed in an old colonial house in downtown Mexico City where Aeromoto, an art library, is located.
Jesús Cruz Caba (Oaxaca City, 1979). Lives and works in Mexico City. With a bachelor’s degree on Visual Communication and Design at Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas–UNAM, Cruz Caba has worked as head of projects of visual communication for contemporary art museums such as Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil and Museo Experimental El Eco, where is currently developing the image program and artistic collaborative processes. His work is an evolving series of conceptual and formal relations around the legacy of the avant-garde movements, their presence up to now in the project of modernity in Latin America and a constant enquiry on the sociocultural processes derived from this integration. His work explores possible extensions of the typographic design practice, the combination of literary and video exercises to be moved to different contexts and media, placing its development and thematic in local stories around nature resources, embodiment mythologies and site specific work. His work has been shown internationally (Mexico, Denmark, Belgium, Japan…). Cruz Caba has collaborated with various cultural institutions for editorial projects as well as collective exhibitions, such as Casa del Lago Juan José Arreola, MUCA Roma - UNAM and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca.
References and Projects
https://proyectoyivi.wordpress.com/
https://www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/a9a2acb4-fc6f-4648-94aa-7feea6f86f7a/manimas-revelaciones-opticas-y-acusticas
https://www.transartists.org/sites/default/files/attachments/ON-AIR_Publication_2012_full.pdf
Gibrana Cervantes is a Mexican violinist and improviser. As a classically trained musician, she takes on a melodic and experimental style that can be heard in Amor Muere and Vyctoria projects where she is a founding member. Individually, she has focused her work as a violinist on sound processing to use noise as a compositional tool, mixing atmosphere with melody. She is the founder and curator of the sound gallery 316centro, a space focused on bringing to light the different manifestations of sound art that mark musical life in Mexico City. Currently she has focused her work on cloud forest bioacoustics applying extended techniques of the violin, manipulating with electronic elements and the composition of her first solo album.
Camille Mandoki is a composer, producer, vocalist and performer from Mexico City. In Camille Mandoki’s strange, uncategorizable compositions, the Mexican singer and sound artist explores the wildest shores of catharsis. Her palette ranges from stumbling, decaying fairground music to menacing flurries of percussion; on her 2016 debut album, We Used to Talk for Hours, Mandoki used her voice as an instrument of choral beauty, but over the next two years began to bend it into warped shapes on cuts like “Priscilla Drums” and “Failure (Sound of an Animal)”. Confrontational in both modes, Mandoki’s drive to push the outer limits of her vocals can be reminiscent of Diamanda Galás and Lydia Lunch, though as a performer, her work is entirely unique.
José Cortés is a composer and performer born in Mexico City. His work has been defined by the use of electric guitar as a starting point to the exploration of sound and noise through different interfaces, analogue and digital. This contributes to the creation of atmospheric layers that intersect through different audible frequencies. In order to join the texture with the physicality of sound.
His albums produced with his project Vyctoria since 2015 are defined by the creation of dark ambients, hypnotic repetitions and melodies that evoke a sense of catharsis and nostalgia. These work have been exposed in Central America, North America and Europe.
