Tercer Impacto: Hispanacea (with English subtitles) from fulana on Vimeo.
gentrification, like the stock market, is all about perception. it loves the non-threatening.what tools do we have to claim our spaces, a falta de dinero y de poder? our cultures, our gestos, our music, our languages, our block parties, our volume.
blast it, speak it, sing it — desacomoda, incomoda — que a tu macondo no se lo chupe la moda.
About me: Fulana is a video collective in that emerged as the vision-fusion of four New York-based Latina artists joined by a love of video and performance, a critical gaze, a bilingual sense of humor and —most of all— a shared desire to create art within a collaborative onda. So we put our Spanglish brains together, drank some coffee, and founded Fulana in 2000. Through parody and satire, we explore themes that are relevant to Latino cultures in the U.S., delving into the nuances that bind our experiences, experimenting with strategies to make visible what we're so often made to read between the lines. Our work, which consists mainly of mock television commercials, music videos and print advertisements, responds to the ways ideologies and identities are marketed to us, sold to us—and how we sell ourselves—through the mass media.
Our mission is to create incisive, political, and unabashedly Latina satire that is freely accessible through the internet. Although our work travels transnationally by way of film festivals, most of our audience encounters us on sites like YouTube, MySpace, and Funny or Die, as well as our own website, fulana.org. Like our name suggests ("fulana" means so-and-so, Jane Doe, what's-her-name—"fulana" is cualquiera), anyone can see our videos online and anyone can chime in. The ethics of "anyone" —el all-around fulanation— is also crucial to our own ensemble work: the four Fulanas write, direct, and produce all our work collectively, and any one of us can take on any role during the creative process.
Through hands-on performance workshops, we work with Latina/o youth at universities and community organizations to develop their critical eye, using parody to tackle issues that concern or anger them. By working with existing media forms, we can appropriate them, flip them, and spit them back out in a way that exposes their underlying messages.
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Las chicas superfulanosas son:
lisandra ramos-grullón, a dominicana from quisqueya heights;
cristina ibarra, a chicana tejana from el paso/la frontera;
andrea thome, a chiletica from madison; and
marlène ramírez-cancio, a boricua from la isla.
Through the years, Fulana has collaborated with many wonderful fulanos & fulanas in New York and beyond, including: Milton Ruiz (Sound in Lupe & JuanDi, Amnezac and Operation Blue Blood; viva "el Fulana mic!"), Luis Grullón-Ramos (Juan Diego in Lupe & JuanDi), Teresa Basilio (Carlotta Heaps, in upcoming video Tercer Impacto: Hispanacea), Eddie Martínez (DP for upcoming Tercer Impacto), Sinuhé Padilla-Isunza (music for Tercer Impacto: Hispanacea), Miguel Luciano (visual artist and Evangélico in Lupe & JuanDi), Adriana Vázquez (Evangélica, in Lupe & JuanDi), Herminia Collado (Lupe's homegirl and also Lupe's singing voice in Lupe & JuanDi), Aroosha Rana (Lupe's homegirl in Lupe & JuanDi & Lupe chorus in song), María Nichim Luna (CHAFA in live performance La Virgen de Guadalupe's World Tour), Malín Alegría (CHAFA in live performance La Virgen de Guadalupe's World Tour), Esteban Lima (DP for Lupe & JuanDi), Adrian Martínez (sound for Tercer Impacto shoot), Cameron Atwell (editor, sound, and male voiceover in Operation Blue Blood), Dexter Miranda (graphics for Tercer Impacto), Daniela Thome (white lady in Tercer Impacto), Des Gordian (med student in Tercer Impacto), Sebastián Calderón-Bentín (Assemblyman Perry Noidman in Tercer Impacto), Jen Camp (immigrantóloga in Tercer Impacto), Elena Montijo (animation for Tercer Impacto)...
Without these collaborators, we would not exist. Gracias everyone!
Tonight Oct 14 SALSA WEDNESDAYS After Work Party @ el Taller Boricua aka Julia De Burgos. Performing tonight Oct 14, SONIDO IDEAL. 1680 Lexington Ave. bet 105st & 106st NY NY 10029 212 831 4333 doors open 5:30 - showtime 8:PM Bring Salsa to el Barrio since 2007 Your host Jimmy Delgado
LEGENDS OF SALSA 3 - Remembering CELIA, LUPE & GRACIELA.
Featuring SULLY DIAZ, YOLANDA RIVERA, XIOMARA LAUGART & CITA RODRIGUEZ.
Also featuring Jimmy Delgado and the Latin Gaints 21 piece Orch starting Johnny Dandy Rodriguez jr., Frankie Vazquez, Ronny Puente & Special Surprise Guests.
Thanks for being our friend FULANA… Hope you dig our sound! Feel free to stop by any time and leave us a comment, message…and let us know what you think, feedbacks are really, really welcome.
Buena vibra y Buena música! … and a ROCKIN’ Week! ZUR
