Bologna in Lettere 2021
Il festival online
ARTE-FATTI CONTEMPORANEI
A cura di Maria Korporal
Santiago Echeverry
BOGUE
Title: BOGUE (Bogota Voguing Bogotá)
World Premiere: Connect Videoart Festival Tampa, FL, 10/23/2019
Year: 2019
Duration: 3’30”
Performance and Choreography: The House of Tupamaras @houseoftupamaras
Music: Patty E. Patétik
Producer: Jaime H. Arboleda R. @restrepo_beto
Thanks: Corporación BDSM Colombia @corporacionbd.sm
Production and shooting location: Bogota, Colombia
Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/479850024
Performers:
Baretamara @da_azuladx
Cobra Tamara @me.alejo
Honey Vergony @honeyvergony
Lady Hunter @ladyhunter__
Laika Tamara @laikatamarahot
Jona Tamara @lxjona_tamara
Pvssy Divx @pvssydivx
Roxy Tamara @andres.nash
DESCRIPTION
The House of Tupamaras is a group of Voguing performers based in Bogota, Colombia. They are professionally trained dancers that chose to break from the norm and explore the queerness of their bodies and their everyday self-expressions to turn their art form into a political tool, questioning the double standards of Colombian society. They create impromptu happenings, choreographed dances, kiki balls, etc., and have performed on stage with renowned groups such as Pussy Riot, among others. This series of prints and videos seeks to capture the Tupamaras’ attitude, athletic musculature, and spunky personalities. The series of volumetric portraits, that isolate spatially the dancers and create a baroque-like atmosphere, are captured in real time with the Kinect sensor, using custom Java code in Processing 3.0, written by the artist. Photoshop is used for color correction and sizing purposes, without any additional filters. Each individual image, captured in HD at 12 to 16 frames per second, composes longer animated still frame sequences, that are consequently edited into the experimental video component of the series, BOGUE. Seeing Voguing as a dance duel, the original music mixes the sounds of two very famous scenes of Latino soap operas, that portray exaggerated – but absurd – female fights. Captured in real time with the Kinect volumetric sensor, and Processing 3.0,. Edited with After Effects and Premiere.
Link: http://santi.tv/hot
Santiago Echeverry is a Colombian-American New Media Artist and Professor, with a background in Video Art, Web Design, and Performance Art. He started his artistic career in 1989, participating since then in some of the most important festivals in the world, and he is considered a pioneer in the field of Net Art and Queer Filmmaking in Latin America. In 1992, he graduated top of the inaugural class of the Universidad Nacional de Colombia’s Film and Television School. In 1995, he was awarded the prestigious Fulbright Grant to earn his Master’s degree from the Interactive Telecommunications Program at NYU. He started his academic career in 1993, and is currently an Associate Professor and co-founder of the recently created Film, Animation and New Media Department at the University of Tampa. His research is focused on volumetric imaging, interactive web development, and creative coding. All his works and projects are available online at www.santi.tv