My new participatory video project, TODOS, is a 2021 recipients of The Idea Fund grant. In its 14th year, The Idea Fund supports Houston-area artists, curators, and collaboratives whose projects exemplify unconventional, interventionist, conceptual, entrepreneurial, participatory, or guerrilla artistic practices.
TODOS is a bilingual (Spanish/English) participatory video-art project that seeks to foster a newfound agency on what “citizenship” and “patriotism” means. Two-minute videos are recorded of participant responses to words flashed on a screen of terms relating to US patriotism, citizenship and values. Traditional terms are exchanged with new political language that defines human “internal” preferences as part and parcel of human and civil rights and entitlements. This mix of terms and words act as a “word association” game that allow for answers thoughtfully considered, intuitive or reactive. This experimental project offers the residents of Houston’s East End Latino/a/x community a fun opportunity to redefine and expand the concepts, terms and vernacular associated with the United States social contract and our notions of patriotism. TODOS intention is for a relational, video art project to become part of the national dialog for a more expansive, inclusive and internal notions of what it means to be an American. TODOS is a performative video, recording the act of personal and political determinization.
It is a real honor to be among the awardees.
This granting program is funded by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, administered by a partnership of DiverseWorks, Project Row Houses, and Aurora Picture Show, and projects are selected by a panel of arts professionals and a past Idea Fund grant recipient. This round's jurors were Roya Amirsoleymani, Leslie Moody Castro, and Harrison Guy. For more information, visit theideafund.org.
Facebook Invite: Idea Fund Presentation
Note: This event is online-only. For registration, Go here.
From the Idea Fund:
“This free virtual event features presentations by the 12 recipients of this year’s The Idea Fund grants. This event is free, registration is required for access to the Zoom webinar, and it will also be live-streamed on our Facebook page.:
Round 14 Grantees (In order of presentation):
Qais Assali – “Two Sides of The Same Coin“
Banke Awopetu – “Summon”
Gregory Michael Carter – “Machine To Retrieve Reparations“
Sol Diaz – “The Place I Know”
Matthew Flores & Ángel Lartigue – “Forensic Excavation”
Yu-Ru Huang – “The Human Behind the Object”
Hueston Collective: Aisen Caro Chacin, Violette Bule, Felicia Chapman, Maria Macias, Lindsay Betzabeth Nunez, and Josef Pierre – “The Uncomfortable Staging“
Vinod Hopson– “THOSE WHO DESIRE – en los Brazos de Dios”
Bria Lauren – “Gold Was Made Fa’ Her”
Henry G. Sanchez – “TODOS/ WE THE PEOPLE”
Prince Varughese Thomas & Britt Thomas– “2 Post Cinema”
Two Dykes and a Knife (Preetika Rajgariah & Lovie Olivia) – “TONGUE AND CHEEK“
To RSVP: http://theideafund.org/?fbclid=IwAR1MlnbpLD8cV0N6LUTCgZ0IbQS06W_Nn8PvQ4REy63FM-X0fd8YOOqisAk
For Glasstire blurb: https://glasstire.com/events/2021/01/28/the-idea-fund-round-14-grantee-presentations/