Skaters and drag queens, DIY Dominican Cultural Ecology
Skaters y drag queens, ecología cultural DIY dominicana
In Santo Domingo of the 90s, subcultures flourish and, with them, practices and discourses that enabled a new ethical platform for artistic production. City and precariousness, self-management and spectacle.
En el Santo Domingo de los 90 florecen las subculturas y, con ellas, prácticas y discursos que habilitaron una nueva plataforma ética para la producción artística. Ciudad y precariedad, autogestión y espectáculo.
Keynote Speaker:
Rita Indiana Hernández
Rita Indiana is a Dominican writer, songwriter and singer. She published the novels La estrategia de Chochueca (2000), Papi (2004), Nombres y Animales (2014) and La Mucama de Omicunlé (2015.) The latter was a finalist of the Vargas Llosa Novel Biennial in 2016, which was the first novel in Spanish to receive the Prize of the Association of Writers of the Caribbean. Her literary and musical discourse is nourished by the culture, the marginal and popular Dominican language as well as by diverse Afro-Caribbean magical-religious traditions. In 2009 she reinvented merengue and other folk rhythms in electro fusion with her group "Los misterios". In "Made in Saturn", her most recent novel, she visits the nostalgic relations between Cuba and the Dominican Republic and the ideological devastation in both from the point of view of a protagonist who receives treatment for his addiction to heroin in a clinic/hotel in Havana.
Rita Indiana es una escritora, compositora y cantante dominicana. Tiene publicadas las novelas La estrategia de Chochueca (2000), Papi (2004), Nombres y Animales (2014) y La Mucama de Omicunlé (2015). La ultima fue finalista a la bienal de novela Vargas Llosa 2016 y la primera novela en español en recibir el Premio de la Asociación de escritores del Caribe. Su creación literaria y musical se nutre de la cultura y el lenguaje marginal y popular dominicano así como de diversas tradiciones magico-religiosas afrocaribeñas. En 2009 reinventó el merengue y otros ritmos folclóricos en fusiones electro con su agrupación “Los misterios”. En Hecho en Saturno, su más reciente novela, visita las relaciones nostálgicas entre Cuba y República Dominicana y la devastación ideológica en ambas a partir de un protagonista que recibe tratamiento para su adicción a la heroína en una clínica/hotel de La Habana.
About Tilting Axis 4: The fourth convening of Tilting Axis is set to take place in the Dominican Republic in collaboration with Curando Caribe and two institutions — Centro León and Centro Cultural de España in Santo Domingo —between two cities–Santiago and Santo Domingo–as we aim to shift our location and context to the Hispanophone Caribbean with our theme Caribbean Cultural Ecologies: Connecting Pasts, Presents and Futures. Artists, curators, stakeholders, instigators and activists will debate ideas about the Caribbean’s interdependent future in relation to culture, the nature, technology and the role of institutions while sharing creative ways which reimagine our collective futures in relationship with our particular environment and with each other.