By Sarah Fisch on August 18, 2011
This is Tapanga Jansen, a San Antonio video and social networking artist. I’m a big fan of her idiosyncratic, deliberately lo-fi, subversively sophisticated short videos, as well as her penchant for speaking in all LOLCats-style pidgin. Here’s the first video of Tapanga’s I saw, “Where’s Lori?” (2010) As you can see, Tapanga [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona, Uncategorized | Tagged animation, DIY, San Antonio contemporary art, Sarah Fisch, satire, social networking art, Tapanga Jansen, video art |
By Sarah Fisch on July 2, 2011
Performance art. Performance art made by an avowed and politically-engaged feminist. A feminist who is a new mom to a 5 month old daughter. Who (the new mom) went to U. Penn, and completed a residency in Scandinavia last year. Performance art about gender/frontera issues, sex work and South Texas sexual colonialism. With guitar and [...]
Posted in Chupacabrona | Tagged Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, Boys Town, Boystown, buttercup, contemporary art San Antonio, Donkey Show, Duran Duran, erik sanden, first Thursday, julia barbosa-landois, la frontera, Nuevo Laredo, performance art, prostitution, Rio, Rio Grande, San Antonio music, sex work, Texas-Mexico border, video art |