Visual Arts
TACTICS OF INVISIBILITY: Japanese Low riders, techno backpacks and Unicornio Fiesta!
With the creative talent of the artists featured in PHANTOM SIGHTINGS: Art After the Chicano Movement as a point of departure, this Celebracion Chicana is a perfect mash up of artist-curator conversations (very short ones), techno-social awareness and the jaichaking of a museum into a club!
The evening starts with Los Jaichackers presenting live video and audio mixing of selected material from each city toured by the exhibition. Curators Carmen Ramos and Rocío Aranda-Alvarado Phantom Sightings’ artists Margarita Cabrera, Jason Villegas and Alejandro Diaz through a conversation about their work in the exhibition and their next projects’ pitches to curators in the audience. The shades come down and the bouncing starts with the preview of Watashi-Wa Lowrider by Luke Dorset, a documentary that presents the parallels and distinctions of the low rider traditions of the American Southwest and Japan.
As a grand finale and when you thought you were going home, Los Jaichackers will morph into DJ Lengua and DJ Fingerlust dropping infectious beats from Latin America and beyond with psychedelic cumbias, mambos and electro-mex rock, transforming El Museo del Barrio into Club Unicornio (a legendary latin-based music club that was founded by the artists in San Francisco).
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