Factual Fantasies: 15th Anniversary of lalulula.tv

lalulula.tv celebrates its 15th anniversary with the cicle Factual Fantasies at Museo Tamayo. Free admission, limited seating.

Since 2010, lalulula.tv has served as an archive that collects videos addressing the phenomenon of contemporary art’s presence in cinema and television. It is a collection of stereotypes and clichés that shape the popular imagination of the art world: films, documentaries, and TV programs that fictionalize, romanticize, and satirize a sometimes cryptic cultural scene.

Friday, October 3, 4:00–6:00 pm

• Introductory talk by Luciana Ponte on lalulula.tv and its history. Luciana Ponte is an artist, founder, curator, and webmaster of lalulula.tv. Born in 1981 in Neuquén, Argentina, she currently lives and works in Mexico. More of her projects and works can be found at www.lalulula.art.
• Screening of The Film Ballad of Mamadada by directors Lucky Benson and Cassandra Guan. This unusual biopic addresses one of cinema’s most enigmatic problems: how to remain faithful to a character’s biography while also creating a new, independent work. The directors invited over sixty artists to tell the life and work of Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven—performance artist, model, poet, and member of the New York Dada movement, friend of Man Ray and Duchamp. Some of her biographers even argue that the famous urinal that forever changed the art world is more closely related to the Baroness’s scatological work than to the man who claimed authorship.

Saturday, October 4, 12:00–2:00 pm

• Screening of Artificial Generation by Federico Pintos. A hybrid between autobiographical documentary and fiction, the film is an essay on the relationship between art, experimentation, and video; a history course on Argentine video art; and, ultimately, an apocryphal documentary centered on the figure of a strange character seeking to take the mind–video relationship one step further.
• Videoconference with Rafael Cippolini, curator, writer, and protagonist of the film. Rafael Cippolini is a writer, essayist, curator, and teacher. He was editor of the visual arts magazine ramona and co-editor of the poetry magazine tsé=tsé. He has contributed to Clarín, Página 12, La Nación, and Perfil. He served as curator of Argentine art at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires and is Regent of the Collège de Pataphysique.

Saturday, October 4, 4:00–6:00 pm

• Screening of Dos Fridas by Ishtar Yasin Gutiérrez, extended version with unreleased scenes, director’s special edition. Judith was Frida’s nurse during the last years of her life. In Costa Rica, Judith herself was cared for by another woman. In her inner world, dreams, myths, imagination, and reality intertwine. From the outset, this fiction introduces images carefully elaborated from a painterly perspective, often reconstructing Frida’s own works. For this event, the director (who also plays Frida) presents an extended edition including an epilogue that explores the mythical pre-Hispanic underworld through a paradisiacal Platonic banquet that brings together transcendent figures from history, such as Marx, Freud, Artaud, Breton, Diego Rivera, Tina Modotti, Nefertiti, Yuri Gagarin, among many others.

–lalulula.tv