
Our weekly focus is on the moving image and art in the streets. And other oddities.
Now screening:
1. Joiri Minaya’s Pattern Making. A Film by Alina Rancier
2. My Father’s Secret Ballet Career / Dad Can Dance / Via The New Yorker / A Film by Jamie and David Ross.
3. Tactical Urbanismo / Graphic interventions on the streets of Barcelona / Arauna

BSA Special Feature: Joiri Minaya’s Pattern Making. A Film by Alina Rancier
Joiri Minaya has a varied multidisciplinary practice – one that is appropropriate to what we study here at BSA is The Cloaking (2020) where the artist uses hand painted patterns in spandex to cover monuments of colonizers.
“I’m thinking of a way to re-signify that public space that is used to commemorate, uh, colonial history and instead trying to commemorate the people who resisted colonialism, who don’t have a statue,” she says. “I’m just thinking of public space as this space that’s supposed to be democratic – but then of course there are forces that determine what is more significant and what is left out. So I’m trying to tell the stories that remain untold.”
Joiri Minaya’s Pattern Making. Via Art21. A Film by Alina Rancier
My Father’s Secret Ballet Career / Dad Can Dance / Via The New Yorker / A Film by Jamie and David Ross.
“My dad was a ballet dancer, and for almost 45 years, no one in the world knew that he was.”
A personal mystery with multiple layers, at the heart of which is an artist who chooses a different route, yet never stops being an artist. There are a few stunning observations throughout, including some by a dancer who followed the path. She’s talking about dance, but you could easily substitute any field of art here.
“You’re called,” she says. “You know, there’s a lot of difficult aspects of it, a lot of painful aspects, a lot of criticism. You’re putting yourself out there. You have to deal with a lot of competition. It’s not about making your living that way. It’s about having the opportunity to be able to share that depth inside of yourself with other people.”
Tactical Urbanismo / Graphic interventions on the streets of Barcelona / Arauna
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