Jander Lacerda

Textilis108 (The Land of Opportunity) will be shown at the E6 Gallery!! Jan 15-Feb 19 2011

Hello friends!

I've some great news I'm very happy about: I've been selected to be on a group exhibit at the E6 Gallery, where my video Textilis108 (The Land of Opportunity) will be shown in February along with a few other video artists. The Opening party is this Saturday (Jan 15, 7-10pm)  so please come say hello & celebrate with me, as well as see some great art performances/pieces.
(I will keep you posted of the Feb. date for the screening once set). Hope to see you all who can make it there!

Go 2011! Love, Jander

Also, please "like" E6 Gallery on FB to stay tuned of the dates and different multimedia/video performances they will have.

SAY SOMETHING!
Bay Area Art / Performance / Multimedia
January 13th – February 19th, 2011

Come join E6 Gallery as we celebrate 2011 with fresh Bay Area artists and events…

Opening Celebration: Saturday, January 15th, 7-10pm
7-10pm >>>> Interactive Performance with Peter Foucault
Performance by Lauren Marsden
7:30-8:30pm > Performance by Chris Silva
8:30pm >>>> Performance by Tommy Becker

Closing Party: February 17th, 7-10pm
8pm >>>> Performance by Backwoods Dance Project
9pm >>>> Performance by ChuCha Santamaria y Usted
Video Screening: February, date TBD

ARTISTS INCLUDE:
Tommy Becker
Ray Beldner
Ana Belén Cantoni
Tom Comitta
Sofía Córdova in collaboration with Matthew Kirkland
Pablo Cristi
Peter Foucault
Mik Gaspay
Jordan Kantor
Jander Lacerda (video screening)
Bob Ladue
Ace Lehner
Lauren Marsden
Carissa Potter
Surabhi Saraf (video screening)
Chris Silva
Cal Volner-Dison
Jonathan Wang (video screening)
Doug Garth Williams (video screening + show duration)
Amber Jean Young

Curated by Ashley Lauren Saks
Thank you to Speakeasy for their generous donation!

Gallery Hours:
Thursday - Sunday from 12 - 7pm and by appointment.
Please email Ashley at E6gallery@artnet.net for images or more information.

On Textilis108:

Textilis108, was inspired by a Prison Project hybrid exhibition Jander Lacerda was a part. He was asked to express ideas about freedom and incarceration, and about the role of social inequality in the persistence of a system that focuses on imprisoning citizens, while neglecting to delve deeper into the causes and remediation of societal illnesses.

Rather than trying to generate explanations – rather than focusing on his own personal response to these questions – the artist decided to take to the streets and ask the citizens of San Francisco to respond. People from all walks of life were approached randomly and included in the project. The diversity of viewpoints and observations obtained is reflected in the title (Textilis- a patchwork), and forms the body and soul of the artist's present work.

Jander Lacerda is not a "filmmaker". He is an artist who uses film as one medium among others to convey ideas about the human condition. He uses film as an especially effective medium to engage others in a discussion about society. Using a digital camera, he interviewed 108 people on the streets of San Francisco using one simple question: What does the "The Land of Opportunity" mean to you? Concerned with anonymity for the interviewees, and with avoidance of bias and preconceived ideas for the viewer, he chose to show only the eyes or the mouth of his subjects. Textilis is the Latin word for fabric, and by extension can mean the fabric or makeup of a society, the amalgamation of people from all walks of life, social and economic classes, from the homeless person to the business man, from the French tourist to the hot dog vendor, from the elderly man or woman to the student included in the film. 108 is a sacred number in Hinduism, Buddhism and other religious and spiritual practices and became for him the ultimate number to express the voices of all human beings; random and yet unique; individual voices and yet a collective view and understanding.
-Sabine Gysens



"other people have a purpose/i alone dont know/i drift like a wave on the ocean/i blow as aimless as the wind" --Tao Te Ching, verse 20

aqui vai umas poesias-alertas

do Mario Cravo, que descobri sem + nem menos um dia acho que numa loja de livros na Bahia..

os esbocos as descricoes de coisas que sentimos sao belos e belas todas...

"Andamos a procura do encontro com a paz interior; de uma certa harmonia com o mundo."

- eu me sinto assim, tenho me sentido assim minha vida inteira... essa busca a paz-- inacabavel busca, desiludida busca ja' mas ainda, esperancosa! serei heroi se um dia encontra-la! serei tudo e terei tudo o que preciso se essa paz um dia eu encontrar.

X

"Quando vier o fim

    nao desejo  paz.

Vendo a pomba branca

    pousar...

quero fugir pra longe.

Se chegar ao fim do mundo exaurido

me arrasterei ainda assim

nao sei pra onde."

- lindo! meu pai era assim... nao queria jamais partir e foi infelizmente o primeiro a partir de nossas vidas, nos deixando vazios, perdidos, e faltando um pedaco importantissimo de nos mesmos.

bom...eu tb amo a vida assim-- acho! :)

fui, mas antes

"Somos aventureiros do prazeramaranhados nos fios do tempoa espreita do encontro

da ilusao."

just a couple of personal quotes i wrote these past two days...been feeling the full affect of the full moon and beautiful and beauty and just a... i hate that i overuse this word: a-l-i-v-e! i just feel so good for no apparent reason almost as good not

quite the same as being in true deep love-infatuation with someone one craves more than anything in the world.. that god-forsaken feeling i've not been gifted by in ages good lord above.. but in time, 43, in time my dear 43.

OK, so now onward with the quotes that I turned it potential works of my art... listen up, please:

"My greatest accomplishments in my life are yet unfinished. I've been great at not finishing. someday yet, though, i promise i will show you!"  (it's called "the unfinished" - like me).

the other quote:

"I create landscapes and monsters where none were. both in my fictional life as in my real and artistic life. it's a gift and a curse."

Images

I deciphered last night, while making many new works throughout the wee hours, that I am an imagist-- not like the concept of the early 20th cent Anglo-American poetry movement that favored precision (I knew nothing about the movement before despite loving poetry)... I'm quite the opposite; I like, am attracted to, and moved by imperfections of all sorts.

So, in my work, what I do more than anything is to create images, manipulate images, borrow from images, give brand new images birth, take an image and add text to it to stir reactions that I myself often feel... devour classic images and make them my own. As mentioned above, always with an energy towards imperfection.

Yes, I am, in my own definition, an Imagist.

My Father

(on finding xeroxed copies of notes/things from my father: i'd made these copies shortly after his passing w/ copies for all my siblings... and, lo and behold, they reappeared to me, unexpectedly.)...

among the many gifts and blessings my beautiful kind father left with me, in me, he left i realized just 2 days ago for the first time in my life, this thing about scribbling, writing, making notes, drawing, doddling with the pen or whatever writing instrument was at hand... I have always always had this in me, even my signature since I was 13-14 or so is the same and it was inspired by my father's pride in his signature, which to me contained so much power and beauty. my father was always writing something in his notebooks, songs and poems (some of which I believe he came up with), on pieces of paper he left around the house for my mother, and for me and my 6 siblings - chores, things to do. he noted the exact date and time a cow would give birth (do cows give birth?) and immediately named the calf, noting its weight and all.... he even, a long time ago before he died, named a cow madonna. my father named a cow madonna: i find this rather humorous. and his madonna had many babies, but i get offpoint somewhat. really... he noted the day a certain crop was planted, who worked the fields, how much they were to get paid, etc. etc. he kept records of everything household, and everything else, for our family. i've finally tied my own love for words, handwriting, scribbling, making drawings, and more, to my father. that man i wish i could truly aspire to be more like in so many ways. in his own way, without quite knowing, he gave me (inspired me toward) the gift of art. and a peaceful place to express things years later through words on my art work and through other kinds of expressions.
my father.

Textilis108

Textilis108 (2008, digital film, approx. 15 minutes 22 sec.)
 

Textilis108, was inspired by a Prison Project hybrid exhibition Jander Lacerda was a part of in early 2008. He was asked to express ideas about freedom and incarceration, and about the role of social inequality in the persistence of a system that focuses on imprisoning citizens, while neglecting to delve deeper into the causes and remediation of societal illnesses. 

Rather than trying to generate explanations – rather than focusing on his own personal response to these questions – the artist decided to take to the streets and ask the citizens of San Francisco to respond. People from all walks of life were approached randomly and included in the project. The diversity of viewpoints and observations obtained is reflected in the title (Textilis- a patchwork), and forms the body  and soul of the artist's present work.  

Jander Lacerda is not a "filmmaker". He is an artist who uses film as one medium among others to convey ideas about the human condition. He uses film as an especially effective medium to engage others in a discussion about society. Using a digital camera, he interviewed 108 people on the streets of San Francisco using one simple question: What does the "The Land of Opportunity" mean to you? Concerned with anonymity for the interviewees, and with avoidance of bias and preconceived ideas for the viewer, he chose to show only the eyes or the mouth of his subjects. Textilis is the Latin word for fabric, and by extension can mean the fabric or makeup of a society, the amalgamation of people from all walks of life, social and economic classes, from the homeless person to the business man, from the French tourist to the hot dog vendor, from the elderly man or woman to the student included in the film. 108 is a sacred number in Hinduism, Buddhism and other religious and spiritual practices and became for him the ultimate number to express the voices of all human beings; random and yet unique; individual voices and yet a collective view and understanding.

Sabine Gysens
September 2008

(copyright Jander F. Lacerda, 2008)

 

(film still)

three gorgeous auden poems...

Art Walk Saturday, Feb 23, Noon...

I'm honored to have my work curated by Ms. Sabine Gysens for the Orange Art Walk taking place Sat., Feb 23 starting at noon. To me this is an important exhibition, and I'm excited  to have worked with  Sabine, and to once again be showing my work through the Intersection for the Arts! The work in the show was created specifically for this art walk, but taking inspiration also from my strong interest in social-political work and its place in art and the world. Lastly, am also very excited that fact that I created a 15 mins art film entitled Textilis108, which marks my official debut in this artform.)
Here's the information:

The Intersection Institute's Art Walk Through the Mission

             Saturday |February 23| 12pm
              Intersection for the Arts - 446 Valencia St., btw 15th and 16th St.

Free (No reservations are necessary. Interested participants should meet at Intersection for the Arts at noon on February 23rd.)

Students from Julio Morales' 2007 workshop Learning to Curate an Art Show create an Art Walk across several blocks of our Mission District neighborhood. Taking inspiration from The Prison Project, students and artists from the workshop will curate art shows in unexpected places. Unlike a traditional gallery, this show is located within several businesses, restaurants and public spaces in our community.           

Location of my exhibition: 138 Lexington Street @ 19^th Street (viewable by appt only after the 23rd)

Curator: Sabine Gysens
"Authority & Disciplinary Power in the Bush Era"
(and other socialpolitical observations)

To see various photos of the exhibition and more, click in the post continuation...

Open Studios Oct 20 & 21

Please come to Open Studios on Oct 20/21, Sat and Sunday, 11am to 5pm.

Check out Artspan.org and SF Guardian for details.\\

Jander Lacerda (mixed media/drawings/paintings/and whatever else i can bring out to share...)

some new drawings from sept/oct 07

“Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have any room to breathe.” Virginia Woolf – (from Orlando)

“I am a woman without secrets. Simply because my life every day is a liquidation of the past. I feel that if I had liquidated the past completely, I would be able to experience the reality of today. Nothing “private” is a risk. The private should be understood, resolved, packaged, and disposed of. Not recycled – it is a disposal, a deposition.” (Louise Bourgeois)

Prayer photos.VM

"The disasters of war are contrary to the common good"

• a few images from my series "the disasters of war are contrary to the common good."