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Alfredo Travieso’s @zeligbot latest entry reflects on Being John Malkovich and its relevance to contemporary cultural and political perception.
“Directed by Spike Jonze from a script by Charlie Kaufman, the film enters the canon of American liberalist idealism and utopianism; it is a breed in itself. It’s a warning sign and a mirror…”
A brief meditation on cinema, cognition, and how older works continue to refract today’s cultural landscape.
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“I like to cause small disturbances and blips. “Convenient Compositions” are minute gestures where formal, and scultptural traditions of assemblage are constructed to form upended, poetic associations. Place and time act as stages for objects of consumption in humorous tableaus of constructed ephemerality. When it comes to its ready made quality, I like to think of Isa Genzken and her sculpture. I believe that the works are curious “things” that appear to have sprouted spontaneously on their own. That have been “found” as they are. I like them to feel immediate, even though they have been carefully composed. Transactions and commerce turns into precious waste, waiting to be immortalized in the memory of a passerby: a game of trash and treasure in the viewer’s gaze. “
Born July 1, 1973 in Bogota, Colombia.
Alfredo was trained in film and arts in New York City. His studies include a Bachelor's degree in Communication Arts from Marymount Manhattan College, film directing and production at Parsons New School University, and numerous production collaborations with New York University's (NYU) TISCH School of the Arts film program. He has obtained his MFA at the
School of Visual Arts: Art Practice program in New York City in 2014. He is currently an Artist Resident at Dimensions Variable in Miami, Florida and has had group exhibitions in Miami, New York and Philadelphia.
