naomi rincón gallardo
work
pirate (bootleg) utopias (2012)
Research-driven work addressing the life of an activist punk collective called JAR (Anti-authoritarian
revolutionary Youth for its initials in Spanish) created in 1993 in Mexico City. The collected accounts of six members of JAR are turned into seventeen songs and their respective musical videos, aiming to make the fictional
character of the research explicit. The project involved different degrees of participation and collaboration
from different individuals and collectivities.
pirate (bootleg) utopias (2012)
Throwing Stones at Patrols (video still)
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1’59’’
pirate (bootleg) utopias (2012)
In the public popular high-school (video still)
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1’ 57’’
pirate (bootleg) utopias (2012)
slam amazon (video still)
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4:41’’
pirate (bootleg) utopias (2012)
black bloc (video still)
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1’ 14 ‘‘
pirate (bootleg) utopias (2012)
it was just that the gang got excited (video still)
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2’:37’’
pirate (bootleg) utopias (2012)
statement (video still)
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3’ 11’’
pirate (bootleg) utopias (2012)
Pirate (Bootleg) Utopias is the visible result of a series of encounters and conflicts, findings,
missunderstandings and misinterpretations, idealizations and tremendous dissapointments, failed attempts of
communication, explorations of unassimilable differences and a variety of ways to organize affection and memory
- an unfinished memory of a fuzzy moment of social mobilization in the mid nineties in Mexico.
Ocotepec Odyssey (2014)
is a transdisciplinary research project about radical social experiences
challenging the belief in progress in Mexico in the 1960s to ’70s. It takes its name from a small town in Morelos,
whose indigenous communitarian features inspired philosopher and maverick Catholicpriest Ivan Illich. Illich later
founded a center called CIDOC in Cuernavaca: a gathering point for radical intellectuals from around the world,
whose practitioners questioned the axioms of modern thinking with alternatives related to liberation theology.
Taking the form of musical videos, live performances and a vinyl record, Ocotepec Odyssey is a trip that goes
from popular feminist pedagogical experiences to experimental, hallucinogenic group therapy and psychoanalysis
in monasteries.
Ocotepec Odyssey (2014)
ocotepec odyssey (vinyl record covers)
In this non-linear narrative -that echoes latin american folk protest songs, folk masses and mexican sci-fifilms-, stories around Illich and CIDOC are fictionalized; a galactic queer axolotl warns us about the counterproductive effects of modernity, as a transgender priest reads a mass and lulls to sleep her fetus-monks.
Ocotepec Odyssey (2014)
announcement from beyond (Video still)
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Ocotepec Odyssey (2014)
epimeteo (Video still)
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3’25’’
Ocotepec Odyssey (2014)
exit from the monastic uterus (Video still)
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5’23’’
Ocotepec Odyssey (2014)
exit from the monastic uterus (Video still)
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5’23’’
Ocotepec Odyssey (2014)
technicolor psychosynthesis (Video still)
in collaboration with enrique arriaga
viedo hd 10’58’’
Ocotepec Odyssey (2014)
technicolor psychosynthesis (Video still)
in collaboration with enrique arriaga
viedo hd 10’58’’
Ocotepec Odyssey (2014)
insatiable (Video still)
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2’29’’
Ocotepec Odyssey (2014)
alienating verb (Video still)
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2’17’’
Ocotepec Odyssey (2014)
featuring: invasorix
INVASORIX is a working group interested in songs and music videos as a form of queer-feminist protest, composed
of eight women artists who are between 25 and 36 years old and live and work in Mexico City: Daria Chernysheva,
Waysatta Fernández (until July 2014), Nina Hoechtl, Maj Britt Jensen, Natalia Magdaleno López, Liz Misterio, Naomi
Rincón-Gallardo and Mirna Roldán. Since Spring 2013 they have met regularly to collectively write songs and make
videos that are based on their experiences: on precarity and on power dynamics in their environments, among others.
they have written songs that question gender roles and the intentions of artists, reflect on precarity and
dream about alternative and/or utopian ways of living and being. The songas Here No One is Illegal and The anus
unite us participate in Ocotepec Odyssey.
invasorix.tumblr.com/
Ocotepec Odyssey (2014)
featuring: invasorix
no one here is illegal (Video still)
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2’06’’
Ocotepec Odyssey (2014)
featuring: invasorix
the anus unites us (Video still)
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4:46’’
our speechless friend in the classroom
performative pedagogical intervention (2010)
Pedagogical performative intervention in the context of a Masters class in Goldsmiths University of London.
The activity was aiming to bring the silenced racial prejudices among the students to the surface and play
with them drawing on augusto boal’s theater games.
previous work
gray-scale (2007)
grayscale (Video stills) 8’ 11’’
previous work
mangrove (2007)
mangrove (Video stills)
3’20’’
previous work
psycho-physical garden
paintings (2008-2009)
flush park. 2009. mixed media. 140 x 140 cm
previous work
psycho-physical garden
paintings (2008-2009)
pelvic om. 2008. mixed media.120 x 120 cm
previous work
psycho-physical garden
paintings (2008-2009)
where the mouth is. 2008. mixed media
100 cm diameter
blind spot. 2008. mixed media
100 cm diameter
previous work
lana and leda: the bifloral maiden (2004)
lana and leda: the bifloral maiden. in collaboration with alejandra contreras (video stills) 7’01’’
fake video report about a couple of incestous siamese twins that are about to have a surgery in oder to
split up their bodies
about
Naomi Rincón Gallardo (North Carolina, USA, 1979) lives and works in
Mexico City. BA in Visual Arts from La Esmeralda, Mexico City,
and a MA in Education: Culture, Language and Identity/ Crossectoral and
Community Arts from Goldsmiths University of London. Understanding
research as an artful and transdisciplinary fabrication, her latest
work addresses initiatives related to the creation of counter-worlds in
Mexico’s recent history. She uses the lenses of masquerade and queer
methodologies to create a place between radical utopian experiences,
fantasy and crises of references. Rincón Gallardo integrates her interest in
music, literature, theatre games, feminisms and critical pedagogy into her
work. Along with her artistic work, she has been involved in institutional
and non-institutional educational settings and community projects, both as
a teacher and as a coordinator.
Selected shows. Ocotepec Odyssey. Pluriversale. Filmhaus Köln (2014),
Mexico Inside Out, Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art, Texas (2013), Sexo,
drogas & Rock and Roll (Sex, drugs & Rock&Roll), Museo Universitario del
Chopo (2014), El incesante Ciclo entre la Idea y la Acción (The Endless
Cycle Between Idea and Action), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Carrillo
Gil (2012), Entre Utopía y Desencanto (Between Utopia and Failure),
Jardin Borda, Cuernavaca, Morelos (2014), Presuntos Culpables (Presumed
Guilty), Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City (2009), Monday, 24 month
Meditation , The Island London (2009) and Ceremonia (Ceremony) in
collaboration with Cynthia Yee, Casa Vecina, Mexico City.
Grants: Akademie der Kuenste der Welt (2014), Jóvenes Creadores del
FONCA (2013, 2008, 2004), Programa de Arte Actual Bancomer-Carrillo Gil
(2010), JUMEX Grant for Foreing Postgraduate Studies (2009).
http://naomirincongallardo.org/index.html