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Lit&Luz Live Magazine Show, Friday Oct 9, 7pm




Live Magazine Show

Bilingüe/bilingual

The annual edition of the Lit & Luz Festival culminates in a world premiere of the festival’s first virtual Live Magazine Show. Each year, Lit & Luz supports the creation of new collaborative artworks between writers, visual artists, and musicians from Chicago and Mexico City. Expect a mix of live streamed and debut videos featuring storytelling, music, poetry, video art, and extemporaneous performances that explore the relationship between the languages, art forms, social issues, and cultures of the United States and Mexico through the theme “Remix: Respond and Rebuild.”



Participating Artists:

Israel Martínez, Sadie Woods, Coya Paz, Diana del Ángel, Sebastián Hidalgo, Eula Biss, Dalia Huerta Cano, Tania Candiani, Fred Sasaki, Selina Trepp, Carla Faesler, Daniel Saldaña París, Jessica Anne, Julián Herbert, Bill MacKay, Kirsten Leenaars, Joel Craig, Sara Uribe, Ana García Jácome, Susy Bielak, Fred Schmalz, Gabriela Jauregui, José Olivarez, Jimena González, Eli Vazquez Sifuentes


60 WRD/MIN ART CRITIC Review: The Broadcast


Installation view The Broadcast, the Broad Museum of Art MSU, East Lansing, 2020

Review: The Broadcast, artist: Kirsten Leenaars


The combination of an avant-garde Dutch artist, a diverse group of high schoolers from Lansing, Michigan, a couple of video cameras, plus lots and lots of cardboard and colored paper and scissors and tape, should really not add up to much. And yet, under the boundless social and technical capabilities of Kirsten Leenaars, those elements, brought together for three weeks during the summer of 2019, equal some of the most touching, hopeful, and creative responses I have yet come across to the disaster that is contemporary American life. On exhibit for far too short a time at the Broad Art Museum at MSU, The Broadcast presents the kids’ pitches for hypothetical movies, quiz shows, expert panel discussions and sitcoms, all inclusive of diversity and political content that would shame standard television. Also included are views of games they played and protests they staged around Lansing, testing out different tactics for making their voices heard. As much full of giggles as articulate dismemberment of President Trump and his need to build walls and separate families, The Broadcast proposes that the youth of this country have voices that badly need to be heard amidst the noise and chaos of our media landscape. It’s time the rest of us listened. —Lori Waxman 2020-08-11 9:15 AM


Watch the recording of the MCA Virtual Studio Visit: in conversation with Kirsten Leenaars

Updated: Oct 9, 2020


The Production (Voices, Noises, Melodies), 2019, video still

This is a recording of the virtual event on the MCA's Instagram page via Instagram Live on May 12, 2020. (Visit the official Instagram for The Broadcast including all one-minute episodes that are discussed in this conversation).


Chicago artist Kirsten Leenaars uses collaborative techniques to create artworks that investigate our media landscape and encourage criticality. Join Leenaars to as she discusses her artistic practice and the latest evolution in her video-based work The Broadcast in conversation with MCA Interim Senior Curator January Parkos Arnall.

This virtual studio visit at the MCA is organized by Interim Senior Curator January Parkos Arnall with the Performance and Public Practice team.


Watch the video here:





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