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Cultural bodies

    Cultural Bodies: Cristina Jadic (USA). ©By Abdel Hernandez San Juan,  Houston, Texas, USA Ethnographer and Cultural Theorist, Research Associate,  Anthropology Department- Rice University Cristina Jadick is a young Cuban American Artist born in the United States. Her visual work is characterized by a strong personal style, that places  us on a new and provocative road at the intersection between the languages of Contemporary Art and cultural performances that explore identity and memory. Today in a world of growing information complexity and generalized markets, the definitions of  "the aesthetic" as well as "the beautiful" are outdated.  The aesthetic, in a highly pragmatized universe, acts as a therapeutic vehicle to define the  everyday experiences and becomes an ideal place to explore cultural resonances and values that may not be expressed in the typifying language of common sense. The exhibit presented here, "Cultural Bodies", is an exam...

The gaze resilience

   The gaze resilience: a duple archaeology By Abdel Hernández San Juan Conceived, componed and translated to english by Abdel hernandez San juan    Light is in nature, this is out of doubt, but light forth participates in our sense of presence, something must thus be presence to us only when light is there, whence, while light is nature, it also participates in the phenomenological assure which made us have a certitude of ourselves, with our subjectivity under it.    A river, is a natural phenomenon out of us but as soon as a river made presence to us through light according to our gaze, we can’t simply set aside as easy our subjective impression evolved through our gaze from the pregiven nature of it.   Remembering that according to barthes, the gaze and the soul grow and born together –the soul born exactly when we must say that the gaze is already formed in the child--, the gaze is not a passive perception of the pregiven neither simply an objectiv...

The gaze resilience

   La Resiliencia de la mirada: una arqueología duple Por Abdel Hernández San Juan    La luz es naturaleza, ello parece fuera de dudas, pero la luz también participa en nuestro sentido de la presencia, algo debe así hacer presencia ante nosotros solo cuando la luz esta allí, por lo tanto, aunque la luz es naturaleza, ella también participa en nuestra certitud fenomenológica que nos hace cerciorarnos de nosotros mismos, con nuestra subjetividad envuelta en ello.    Un rio es un fenómeno natural afuera de nosotros pero tan pronto como un rio hace presencia para nosotros a través de la luz según nuestra mirada nosotros no podemos tan fácilmente poner a un lado nuestras impresiones subjetivas envueltas en nuestra mirada de la naturaleza predada de ello.     Recordando a Barthes, la mirada y el alma nacen juntas, el alma nace exactamente cuando nosotros podemos decir que la mirada está formada en él bebe, la mirada no es una percepción pasiva de algo p...

General bibliography

  General Bibliography Barthes, Roland The Responsibility of Forms, Essays on Music, Art and Representation, The University of California Press Eco umberto, la estructura ausente, lumen Todorov Tzvetan, Symbolism and Interpretation, Cornell University Press, Feb 18, 1986 Todorov Tzvetan , Genres in Discourse, Cambridge University Press, Published August 31st 1990 by (first published 1978)  Todorov Tzvetan, Simbolismo e interpretación Todorov, monte avila editores Todorov Tzvetan. "Los géneros del discurso" (Waldhuter editores, 2012)  Todorov Tzvetan. Teorías del símbolo, monteavila editores Todorov.Tzvetan Géneros del Discurso, Gedisa Todorov Tzvetan. Critica de la Crítica, Editorial Paidós