II Echoes of Critical Observatory (2008)
Scenarios and opportunities for cultural development in the XXI century
worth more creative ability (published in kaosenlared)
to stimulate research and cultural criticism, and the promotion of youth forums for the articulation of a critical-revolutionary, are called Critics Observatories.
By: Tamara Roselló Queen
"To exist humanly, is to pronounce the world is transformed" Paulo Freire
XXI Century is our stage of life. He inherited many of the outstanding utopias past and the urgency to mobilize to protect basic rights. The globalization trend is one feature that goes beyond the dominant economies and invades the ideologies and cultures.
problems and questions of today have the same universal character, so the answers we think together, and socialize our alternatives, our symbols, our doubts and hopes. The challenges of globalization can serve us outside, in a world characterized by the penetration of cultural industry and new models of liberal capitalism.
Cuba In 2008, we are not exempt from the heartbreak, despair and uncertainty that immobilizes and uprooted. The belief that politics is a matter solely of politicians, and the "every man for himself" make "law and order", gained momentum with the economic crisis of the 90. Its sequels are in everyday life and in the projection of many young people have grown up under the influence of those patterns. Certain behaviors
individual, group, institutional and social, that have nothing to do with our project of socialist nation, tend to replace the ethical standards we have always prided Cubans. There are traditions, anecdotes, so little remembered, that almost escape our memory and even oral history can rescue them, because they will be buried with the generation of our elders.
Some circles are debating the relevance of new ways to encourage and develop a more active citizen participation in local and institutional level and that the culture of debate and criticism are not an isolated act, informal, sterile. However, it is not starting from scratch. We have an accumulated history that put human beings at the center of the events of the Island that we can not but shake the crossing of arms or set their destinations outside of this land.
Belgian François Houtart conceptualized the new historical subject to be built in the XXI century: "It will be a subject in the full sense of the word, including the subjectivity rediscovered encompassing all human beings, being human and real subject (...) should be able to act on reality has multiple and global in the sense of emergency, as required by the contemporary genocide and ecocide. "[1]
In essence, a social subject acting in correspondence with time living, or the contexts that condition. It will be from an active social practice, which produces the transformation of men and women, to be protagonists of their history, complex, plural, contradictory.
only culture that will allow creation of meaning to make visible to dialogue with other social groups counter-resistance and articulate defense of the project we seek in common. She-culture-shaping our field, but not to establish an elite, who prefer to theorize about reality or predict their future scenarios, rather than experience it.
worth more to the creative capacity in terms of experience, to redefine practices, beliefs, traditions, always from within the processes ... In them, whether spontaneous or planned, are assumed or question forms of participation, identities, representations. It is our most direct contribution to help change all that consciously wrong and appropriating what is worth defending because it singles out, enriches us, makes us grow, back to basics.
One of the notes Gramsci Prison Notebooks warning: "Creating a new culture is not just about making discoveries" original "means also and especially, disseminate critical truths already discovered," socialize "so to speak, and therefore to become stock-based vital elements of coordination and intellectual and moral order. " The community, media, networks, the exercise of dialogue, collective history, personal experiences, discussions, people ... this list can be greater opportunities. We just have to organize more, sharing knowledge, and support us in this beautiful mission to root, to make tangible the social commitment and culture.
Coming together to discuss how to interpret reality from art? What is the role of young Cuban artists in the current context? What scenarios and opportunities can be leveraged for cultural creation? Vanguardia "intellectual or facilitators, mediators in the process of creation?
These are just some of the questions that were posed by members of the Chair Haydee Santamaria Association Hermanos Saiz (AHS). Founded in 2000, declared open the exchange of knowledge, recovery of historical memories, linked to the emancipatory experiences in Cuba and the rest of the world. With watchful eyes closely follow and encourage community transformation projects, led by young and the results of his artistic creation. Mario Castillo
Santana, one of its activists in the capital, said that if anything have been proposed since the Chair is to articulate a space for reflection among young people. They also invite people who are not within the Association, but have an experience to tell, to share. "It is to be found despite the growing number and plurality."
The National Observatory II Review (San Jose, febrero de 2008), Hilda Landrove, quien fuera vicepresidenta de la AHS y hoy integrante del Proyecto Grupo de Estudios Culturales Nuestra América, llamaba la atención sobre la responsabilidad que se asume cada vez que se convoca a un debate en momentos demandantes como los actuales. "Las opciones que tenemos son: la propuesta de la generación del 26 de Julio, que ha resuelto un grupo de problemas y otros nos los ha dejado ahí… o la que viene de Miami. Hay un sector de gente, que está pendientes de todo lo que sale o viene de allá, de la «tierra de la libertad». Ante esas alternativas ¿cómo podemos avanzar hacia el proyecto de nación que urge? A mí me cuesta identificar cuál es mi verdadera responsabilidad, if I stand in the country and the reality I'm living, it is the starting point to build the country we dream. "
The Chair Haydee Santamaria moved shortly sensitive fibers on the relevance or not to create spaces meeting where they discuss young artistic creation, but without losing sight of the context that sustains it. To promote the controversy is not unique, where the culture of debate flirts with the public, and is everywhere, mainly in non- officers. One of his inetgrantes says so "the reality is so overwhelming that you do not need a specific space for discussion. This is done informally. However, sometimes one is looking for a space and instead loses, the one at hand. "
The Association seeks to capitalize on every opportunity, allows the integration and socialization experiences, channeling efforts and pooling talent. To Mario" the problem is to interconnect all that can be created in the most unexpected places right now. "Do not allow a vacuum there, or that invisibilicen individual projects.
professor at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Havana, called Pañella Daybel to be assessed "in the levels of those that have to be responsible, because they themselves are the owners" to influence from the daily practices in communities projects. Mario insists "we must participate in the discussion of reality, in political debate," to change society.
Test Tube project is a good example that has made young playwrights to write about their daily lives, what happens to them. One of its members, makes the distinction between the ways of appropriating the moment that we live, "some people do it to look for a scholarship, others, however, to achieve a transformation in the place from his speech. One sometimes not have access to the macro, but to micro and then you can do things. ... "
young audiovisual production is also leaving testimony of the day to-day, complex, diverse on the island seems to have among its directors a preference to document reality, but fiction gives them more opportunities for experimentation.
One participant, a graduate of the School of Audiovisual Media ISA seeks possible reasons to explain this behavior. "Certainly, the vision has always been on Cuban society has been triumphant, but we are full of problems, because it was believed that to tell they were going to generate more, rather than solving them. After the movie Strawberry and Chocolate was a "openness" in this regard. It meant a break. Besides the fact remains that the sample of Young Filmmakers and acceptance of any thesis topic, without censorship, students of ISA, we have opened the doors to people who have a critical intent on a problem. "
The Guitiérrez Esneider Holguin, is confident that" when you want to have a clear vision of what was the Cuban society, at least in the 90s, which the press will find a very distorted view, because we have the "document" that will reliably historian like an airplane black box, what happened. That place has come to take literature, plastic arts, video, documentary, drama, arts in general. That is the testimony that will be left of society, such as leaving the TV Serrana eg, responding to the interests of a community. "
These" dead spots "have emerged edges rarely told by the media communication, which were not part of the legitimate representation of Cuba. "What is happening with the audiovisual connects with what happens in the theater and in general in everything. The reality is richer, more problematical and nuanced than what some people he is bringing from his poetic imagination, fictional, "says an aide to the forum.
But would be expected that artists have today? The audiovisual creation clarifies a young filmmaker "is difficult for art to reflect reality objectively, because half the subjectivity of the filmmaker that puts the camera where it is advisable to be more in favor or against a particular issue."
The academy also have served many of those materials that challenge weak side of society. Daybel has the experience of the impact that some have reached in their own right. From it, suggests to "provoke dialogue with the academic director with the Social Sciences. Not everything can be explained from the experience, not from the theories. And connect is important."
It's about being the subject of this reality, not to look at it from a bubble, but to find ways to create and socialize exchange views, experiences and knowledge, articulating initiatives and references, quizzes, projects and practice ...
The Chair Haydee Santamaria, as she did in life, integrating these cultural groups that are motivated with a desire to lead emerging trends and not backward in the Cuban context. There are those who are, or the debate, "although it has been one of its cornerstones," represents an escape valve. Either way, it is the fear of "wasting time" while everyone else is doing alone in place, and even when they are together in the space of debate., because there is so much to do, who always takes a new start.
________________________________________ [1] In the lecture delivered during the V Hemispheric Meeting of Struggle against the FTAA, (Havana, 13 to April 15, 2006)
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