Shame, trauma, and healing are at the core of SECRETO, a years-long project by María Luisa Portuondo Vila. Field Projects is honored to unveil the first book produced from this work at our gallery NEXT WEEK, so stay tuned and you can meet with María Luisa yourself! Secrets grip us, and we get into grief, love, death, sex, and abuse in this deeply human conversation. We discuss María Luisa’s early transition from private theater to community centered public works, and what it means to make projects for the public. Ghostly, haunting thoughts of the pandemic time came together in María Luisa ’s project HABITĀR, whose second iteration was completed at Field Projects residency in 2021. This enabled her to make a book that is materially outside the dominant institutional cannon of paper-centric men’s publications! We also cover questions around audience participation and how to make institutions chase you (not the other way around!) through process, not product.
PLEASE JOIN US FOR the *SECRETO Book Launch Wednesday October 12, 2022!*
Our final take away: Reflecting and openness is not related to money and can’t be commercialized, so it is a responsible, anti-market act that helps to better yourself and your community. Be open and love yourself and everyone else you can :)
CODA: Perfect Lovers discussion.
TW: There is a brief discussion of childhood sexual abuse around 52 mins, so if that’s not for you, we’ll see you next time!
SHOW NOTES
María Luisa Portuondo Vila
@mariap.vila
http://www.mariapvila.com/aboutme
MERCURY STORE Theater residency in Brooklyn: https://mercurystore.com/what-we-do/
Joseph Beuys on Social Sculpture: (and was it Medieval?): https://www.tate.org.uk/art/art-terms/s/social-sculpture
Book rec from Maria: Discourses: Conversations in Postmodern Art and Culture (1990)
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Discourses/4pKnyqHfySMC?hl=en
Us
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