On January 21 we inaugurated the arrival of second issue of EntreLasTierras publications with Allegorie des Spotts | Allegory of Derision by Cristián Berríos, a translation of the short story Alegoría del Escarnio.
„Allegory of Derision is one of my most precious short stories. It posesses a load of humor, a particular vision on death and a fierce critic of matrimony, but it is special, because i wrote it shortly after the death of my father. Years later it appeared in Letralia and Revista del Puñal.“ (C.B.)
Cristián Berríos (Santiago de Chile, 1975), Chilean poet and writer. In digital format he published Chocolate Post Mortem, Tales of Sueñobscuro, The Lay Brotherhood, Holy Grail of an Underground and Short Symphony of an Unrepentant Crime. His texts moreover have appeared in publications in Chile, Mexico, Venezuela and Peru. 2009 he was part of Me Urbe arbitrary anthology (Chile-Venezuela). Currently he is editor of the independent digital magazine Puente de Saturno, which in its first edition between others included Latin-American poets such as Gladys Gonzáles and Ana Montrosis from Chile, Amalia Gieschen from Argentina, Gladys Mendía and Betsimar Sepúlveda from Venezuela. At the end of last year Brücke des Saturns, a short selection of his poetry translated by Gabrielle Cram, got published by EntreLasTierras. (follow him on: http://puentedesaturno.blogspot.com)
After a little sneaky preview on an aka|red event as well as on an event we held in solidarity with a friend who got sick (for details follow this link: coming soon) Allegory of Derision’s first presentation happened in the frame of the exhibition Double-Volley, whichs opening was taking place on the evening of January 21 at AREA 53, Gumpendorferstraße 53, in Vienna’s sixth district. The exhibition comprises several artists and is on view until February 27. Be quick, and you will have the chance to page through Allegory of Derision within the proposed set-up and save your own copy!
The presentation is accompanied by a short introduction to EntreLasTierras collaborative project and the people behind (as a suggestion of 2 or 3 possible descriptions follow this link: http://www.facebook.com/notes/parrot-grrrl/entrelastierras/365685313272).
„The same way as Obama can’t renounce petroleum, literary traditionalism and laminated cover editions need each other. If there exist books with cardboard covers or editons of 100 tacked exemplars, read them, or tolerance exsanguinates you?“ (C.B.)
With this second # EntreLasTierras is also introducing a new product line: Narrative in Red. And as the title suggests, the publication of prose is and will be indicated through it’s red coated appearance. So take care and ask: „Why your coat could be so red?“
Allegorie des Spotts will be available at Schikaneder during the exhibition schik II - Revolution with the participation of aka|red, opening on March 16 at Schikaneder, Margaretenstraße 24, in the 4th Viennese district. Under the pleonasm aka|red a series of hybrid events such as Beware, beware, beware... or I resist you! have been organized at Schikaneder. The various performances entailed the artistic interest in narrations, complementary proposals to music or sound, thematizing and potentiating distributions as well as the facilitation of situations, in which music or its respect (hi-)stories could be shared and integrated as part of an extended artistic practice, along and under consideration of diverse time-and-space-based trajectories. To follow this practice, the mentioned exhibition will include a sound-section with a listening station of an open and fragmented archive of (sound)tracks in its writing.
Watch out for next issue of EntreLasTierras..coming soon!
