Clio Bravo Idrobo - Let's Party Like it's 1492!

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Let's Party Like it's 1492 #1

The following 15 images and videos document the ongoing "Let's Party Like it's 1492" project. The first 11 slides of the catalog include text additions aimed at providing additional context and clarifying the content of the multimedia installation, consisting of three parts: "The Dissected Body of the Mestiza," "an Andean rune reading," and "a sketch for an opera."

In this first slide, the catalog displays an image of the mobile made out of laser-cut floripondio paper flowers with Andean runic symbols (55" x 55") arranged in front of a backdrop featuring Act III of the opera (on wall 1).

Let's Party Like it's 1492 #2

On this slide, the top image is a close-up of "The Dissected Body of the Mestiza" (100" x 63"). Some body parts made of latex and painted with acrylic are visible as they hang from a wire.

The bottom image shows a broad view of the installation of "The Dissected Body of the Mestiza" (100" x 63") and a back view of "an Andean rune reading," showing a table with the marble Andean Runes and the mobile made out of laser-cut floripondio paper flowers with Andean runic symbols (55" x 55")

*The following 15 images and videos document the ongoing "Let's Party Like it's 1492 "project. The first 11 slides of the catalog include text additions aimed at providing additional context and clarifying the content of the multimedia installation, consisting of three parts: "The Dissected Body of the Mestiza," "an Andean rune reading," and "a sketch for an opera."

Let's Party Like it's 1492 #3

On this slide, the top image is a close-up of "The Dissected Body of the Mestiza" (100" x 63"). The mestiza multiple vulvas are visible. These parts are made of latex and painted with acrylic.

The bottom image shows the multiple faces of the mestiza, part of the same section.

Let's Party Like it's 1492 #4

On this slide, the top image offers a partial view of "an Andean rune reading" (120" x 60" x 60"), with the Andeans Runes placed on a table and a llama cushion.

The central image is a close-up of the Andean Runes made of marble from the Chimborazo mountain region. Three symbols are visible (Fehu, Tir, and Wyrd), and each rune follows the Andean Proportion (both cosmic and present in nature), measuring 2" x 1.4142" x 0.5"

The bottom image shows the mobile made of laser-cut floripondio paper flowers with Andean runic symbols (55" x 55"). In the background, we can see Act I of the opera (on walls 1 and 3).

Let's Party Like it's 1492 #5

This slide is an infographic about the Andean Runes (made of different natural materials like marble, stone, glass, and wood). The set has 25 runes, like the Nordic Runes, using the same names and descriptions. The symbols come from the extinct Puruha Language, using the loose translations of the meanings from the Ecuadorian scholar prof. Ximena Idrobo doctoral thesis, I translated the Nordic runes to the Andean Runes while creating this structure.

Let's Party Like it's 1492 #6

This slide has screenshots of ACT I of "a sketch for an opera" the first act follows the song "Cloud 9" and has a duration of 2:28'. In these screenshots, you can see the sequence in which the character of the mestiza prepares to perform while she films a GRWM video and whitens herself up. The captions written in yellow show the products she's using to do that.

Let's Party Like it's 1492 #7

The top image of the slide is a documentation shot of ACT I of "a sketch for an opera" projected on wall 1, where the character of the mestiza is performing. The bottom image shows a digital mockup of the space as ACT I is happening. The three walls are visible, the mestiza character is on wall 1, and Columbus (and company) are on wall 3, confined in the pages of an encyclopedia.

Let's Party Like it's 1492 #8

This slide shows screenshots of the ACT I performance of Columbus (and company) on wall 3. On the image of the left, you can see the whole cohort (from top left to bottom right: Queen Isabella I of Castile, King Ferdinand II of Aragon, Cristopher Columbus, Ecuador Conquers: Francisco Pizarro, Diego de Almagro, and others, Christ the Savior, and the Apostle Santiago.) (the images were taken from Prado's collection)

On the composition of the left, you can see Columbus's reactions to the performance of the mestiza as she's filming her GRWM video on the opposite wall.

Let's Party Like it's 1492 #9

This slide shows screenshots of ACT II's performance of the mestiza on wall 1. ACT II follows the song "Morena Mía" and has a duration of 3:46'. This sequence shows the reactions of the mestiza character to Columbus's advances, as he's coming out of his encyclopedia page, traveling through walls 3, 2, and 1. The yellow captions show the lyrics of the song.

Let's Party Like it's 1492 #10

The top image is a documentation shot of ACT II being projected in wall 1. We see the mestiza on the left and Columbus on the right. Columbus has moved from the encyclopedia page, traveling through walls 3 and 2, changing his shape as he's moving. Initially, he started as an anatomical drawing, but as he moves along the walls, he's morphing, and once he arrives at wall 1, he's just a royal purple line.

The bottom composition has four screenshots of the last 20 seconds of ACT II, where Columbus consumes the mestiza and then morphs into a royal purple circle.

Let's Party Like it's 1492 #11

This is a screenshot of ACT III projected in wall 2. It follows the song "Latinoamerica" and has a duration of 5:03'. We can see the character Aby Ayala (aka Latinoamerica) in the right corner of the image. This character is a green sphere. In her performance, she beats to the rhythm of music, showing us her story through a screen recording projected in the background.

Let's Party Like it's 1492 #12

This video is a documentation of the installation "Let's Party Like it's 1492", installed in Nov of 2022 at Mason Gross Galleries. The soundtrack for this trailer uses the song "Latinoamerica" (part of ACT III of the sketch for an Opera). It displays installation shots and recordings of the space and, in the end, digital mockups of fragments of each act of "a sketch of an Opera."

Let's Party Like it's 1492 #13

This video is a digital mockup fragment of ACT I of "a sketch for an opera" the three walls are visible as "Cloud 9" plays. The mestiza character is located on the left (wall 1), and Columbus (and company) is on the right (wall 3).

Let's Party Like it's 1492 #14

This video is a digital mockup fragment of ACT II of "a sketch for an opera," the three walls are visible as "Morena Mía" plays, the mestiza character is located on the left (wall 1), and Columbus (and company) on the right (wall 3).

Documentation credit: Park McArthur (video), Robbie Acklen (photos)

Let's Party Like it's 1492 #15

This video is a digital mockup fragment of ACT III of "a sketch for an opera" the three walls are visible as "Latinoamerica" plays, and Latinoamerica (the green sphere) is singing in the central space (wall 2) as she's performing her story through a screen recording.

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