{"id":7239,"date":"2017-01-14T12:50:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T18:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/?page_id=7239"},"modified":"2023-03-15T18:05:33","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T18:05:33","slug":"abu-alitoni-serra-workshops-carleton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/en\/abu-alitoni-serra-workshops-carleton\/","title":{"rendered":"Abu Ali\/Toni Serra &#8211; Workshops @ Carleton"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Esta entrada ha sido elaborada por Christina Tarazi, Carlos Delgado, Carinna Nikkel en colaboraci\u00f3n con Toni Serra y Palmar Alvarez<\/h5>\n<p><strong>Toni Serra es<\/strong> video ensayista y co-fundador y co-director de los Archivos del Observatorio <a title=\"OVNI\" href=\"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/en\/colectivos\/ovni\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/2015\/06\/15\/ovni\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1486321001414000&amp;usg=AFQjCNG-7ysPOU86KnR3bqbmzv182GxbVg\">OVNI<\/a> (Observatori de V\u00eddeo No Identificat \u2013 Observatorio de V\u00eddeo No Identificado).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"m_8961318119539835219gmail-Apple-style-span\">A trav\u00e9s de sus v\u00eddeo creaciones, Toni Serra, tambi\u00e9n conocido como Abu Ali, explora el \u00e1mbito de la visi\u00f3n, caminando por una\u00a0 tierra de nadie, entre el ensayo experimental, la poes\u00eda, con una presencia constante de la noci\u00f3n de trance y de las realidades del sue\u00f1o. En sus primeros trabajos, en Barcelona, Nueva York y T\u00e1nger, Serra se dedic\u00f3 a explorar la belleza, el misterio de lo ef\u00edmero y lo marginal. A partir de 1994, de regreso a Barcelona, inici\u00f3 la serie de v\u00eddeos\u00a0<i>TV Code<\/i><\/span><span class=\"m_8961318119539835219gmail-Apple-style-span\">, una inmersi\u00f3n personal en la cr\u00edtica\u00a0de los mecanismos de alienaci\u00f3n de los mass media, intentando parodiar su seducci\u00f3n espectacular y deconstruir su capacidad hipn\u00f3tica de crear modelos sociales y estereotipos identitarios. La progresiva constataci\u00f3n de que la cr\u00edtica debe ser un medio que ayude a iluminar y conocer nuevos mundos, Serra decide iniciar un camino distinto hacia la reflexi\u00f3n y experimentaci\u00f3n sobre la relaci\u00f3n del v\u00eddeo con lo visionario, con la experiencia interior y con las visiones que transitan entre mundos, espacios y tiempos, entre lo real y lo irreal, el sue\u00f1o y la vigilia, la poes\u00eda y la profec\u00eda\u2026como un viaje que no solo cruzase, sino que borrase tambi\u00e9n los l\u00edmites y fronteras.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span class=\"lleuger\"><strong>Toni Serra is\u00a0<\/strong>a video essayist and co-founder and co-director of the<\/span>\u00a0Observatory Archives,\u00a0<a title=\"OVNI\" href=\"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/en\/colectivos\/ovni\/\">OVNI<\/a> (Observatori de V\u00eddeo No Identificat \u2013 Unidentified Video Observatory).<\/p>\n<p>Through his video creations, Toni Serra, also known as Abu Ali, explores the scope of vision, \u00a0inhabiting a no-mans-land that lies between experimental essay and poetry, evoking a sense of trance and reality of dreams. His\u00a0first works in Barcelona, New York and Tangier, questioned the beauty and mystery of the marginal and fleeting. After returning to\u00a0Barcelona in 1994, he started work on the video series \u201cTV Code,\u201d a self-immersion project and critique of the mechanisms of alienation in mass media. The series tries to parody the seduction of this spectacle and to deconstruct its hypnotic capacity to create social models and stereotyped identities. This idea that criticism should be a medium to helps illuminate and facilitate the creation of new worlds, lead him to reflection and an experimentation with the relationships between video and visionary, internal experience and visions protected between worlds, space and time, between the real and unreal, dreams and wakefulness, poetry and prophecy\u2026as a journey not only that one takes, but as a way to erase limits and borders.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">Sources: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cccb.org\/en\/autor-toni_serra-6004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.cccb.org\/en\/autor-toni_serra-6004<\/a>\/<a href=\"http:\/\/www.al-barzaj.org\/p\/bio.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.al-barzaj.org\/p\/bio.html<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>El Taller<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ig0E0g39cjI\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/h2>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Transcripci\u00f3n del video <a href=\"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/en\/transcripcion-del-video-video-transcription\/\">aqu\u00ed<\/a> &#8211; Video Transcription <a href=\"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/en\/video-transcription\/\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Para el Taller D\u00eda a D\u00eda, haz clic <a href=\"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/en\/el-taller-dia-a-dia\/\">aqu\u00ed<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h5 class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><b>Descripci\u00f3n General del Taller<\/b><\/span><\/h5>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">En el invierno de 2017,\u00a0<strong>Abu Ali\/Toni Serra<\/strong>\u00a0fue invitado a visitar Carleton College para dirigir un taller sobre el proceso art\u00edstico aplicado al video-arte y para compartir sus conocimientos y su visi\u00f3n del mundo. El taller fue para la clase, \u201cEl Ensayo Ficcionalizado Contempor\u00e1neo Espa\u00f1ol.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">La mayor parte del taller con Toni Serra consisti\u00f3 en presentaciones de Toni Serra seguidas de discusiones; los estudiantes le hac\u00edan preguntas sobre el proceso art\u00edstico y sobre diferentes aspectos pol\u00edticos y creativos. Serra mostr\u00f3 a la clase fragmentos de videos de diversas fuentes que ayudaron a demostrar c\u00f3mo las im\u00e1genes transforman, positiva y negativamente, tanto la percepci\u00f3n como la construcci\u00f3n de un imaginario colectivo y la creatividad. Sobre todo, el taller fue una toma de conciencia sobre la influencia del capitalismo y la forma sist\u00e9mica de su modo de imaginar y de pensar. Adem\u00e1s, el taller anim\u00f3 a los estudiantes a construir sus propios caminos y a pensar introspectivamente sobre c\u00f3mo y en qu\u00e9 forma quieren vivir en sus comunidades.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s2\">\u00bfCu\u00e1l fue la propuesta del taller?<\/span><\/strong><\/h5>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s3\">El prop\u00f3sito del taller fue presentar a los estudiantes la limitaci\u00f3n de las im\u00e1genes en la representaci\u00f3n de la realidad. Como explic\u00f3 Serra, las im\u00e1genes crean un velo que nos ciega a la realidad misma impidiendo la comprensi\u00f3n de las verdades. Se anim\u00f3 a los estudiantes a pensar en la persona entera, en toda su profundidad y en su propia historia. Serra nos ense\u00f1\u00f3 la influencia del capitalismo en nuestra vida cotidiana y su presencia en la propagaci\u00f3n de fronteras f\u00edsicas y simb\u00f3licas, por ejemplo en forma de estereotipos y prejuicios.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h5><\/h5>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Workshop<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>For the workshop day by day, click <a href=\"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/en\/the-workshop-day-by-day\/\">here<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n<h5><strong>Overall Description of the Workshop<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Winter of 2017, <\/span><b>Abu Ali\/Toni Serra <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">was invited to visit Carleton College to lead a workshop about his artistic process of creating audiovisual works and to share his knowledge and worldview. The workshop was for the class, \u201cThe Contemporary Spanish Fictional Essay.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The workshop with Toni Serra largely consisted of presentations by Toni Serra, followed by discussions where students were free to ask Serra questions about his artistic process, political and personal beliefs. Serra showed the class video clips from various sources that demonstrated how images can transform, both positively and negatively, the construction of our collective imagination and creativity. Overall, the workshop raised awareness to the influence of capitalism and the systemic way of imagining and thinking. \u00a0It also encouraged students to build their own paths and think introspectively about how and in what way they want to impact their communities.<\/span><\/p>\n<h5><strong>What is the goal of the workshop?<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The purpose of the workshop was to introduce students to the limitation of images in the representation of reality. As Serra explains, images create a veil that blinds us from reality, and prohibits society from understanding truths. Students were encouraged to think about the whole person, with their depth and history. Serra taught the influence of capitalism in our daily lives, and the expanse in which it propagates physical and symbolic borders, for example stereotypes and prejudices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/21stcenturyartivism.sites.carleton.edu\/en\/workshops\/workshops-carleton-college-northfield-mn\/\">\u00a0\u2b05\ufe0eBack to Workshops @ Carleton<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Esta entrada ha sido elaborada por Christina Tarazi, Carlos Delgado, Carinna Nikkel en colaboraci\u00f3n con Toni Serra y Palmar Alvarez Toni Serra es video ensayista y co-fundador y co-director de los Archivos del Observatorio OVNI (Observatori de V\u00eddeo No Identificat \u2013 Observatorio de V\u00eddeo No Identificado). 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