WHO EATS AT TACO BELL? – when you cross social practice, collaboration, and tacos.
Orono — Gaelyn and Gustavo Aguilar challenge ideas of identity, immigration and culture with their dynamic interdisciplinary social art practice.
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On Tuesday, March 22 at 7p.m. Gaelyn and Gustavo Aguilar, as co-facilitators of Tug, will present their latest project, Who Eats at Taco Bell? at the IMRC Center as a part of Tuesdays at the IMRC, the UMaine Intermedia MFA visiting artist lecture series. Who Eats at Taco Bell? is a socially-engaged-art platform for thinking about how the interlocking dynamics of immigration, social race, and colonialism in U.S. American history continue to resonate with personal and political notions of movement, belonging, and identity. Their goal: to create space for discussion around immigration integration and cultural citizenship. The project will take the couple on a 3-month journey on the Lewis and Clark Trail this summer with a taco bike/cart as the U.S. Presidential Election approaches. They will make tacos for those they encounter, inviting participants to engage with their multi-sensorial/multimedia installation. They state that this is in “an effort to seed and extend conversations about what it means to inhabit a place, at this particular point in time.” This presentation is free and open to the public.
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Ah, Raza! The Making of An American Artist
Gaelyn is a cultural anthropologist. “(My)…work falls under the broad heading of performative anthropology, a dialogic area of interest that looks to performance both as the way in which people experience the quotidian aspects of their cultural universe, and the method by which the anthropologist/ethnographer produces knowledge about those experiences.
Gustavo, an experimental perform/composter/and improver, states that his “interdisciplinary approach to making cooperatively combines present-composed (improvised) and past-composed (fully notated) musical elements with the use of new technologies and an active research interest in cultural/critical studies.”
Together the couple co-facilitate Tug, a collective focused on interdisciplinary re/search, new forms of contemporary social practice, and participatory, problem-based interventions that tackle the cultural politics of border regions in North America.
Tuesdays at the IMRC is sponsored by the UMaine Intermedia MFA and New Media Departments, the UMaine Cultural Affairs/Distinguished Lecture Series, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Correll Professorship in New Media. Visit http://www.intermediamfa.org for more information.
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