INTERVIEW WITH JOB SANCHES
— What do you expect from a visit to Vyksaair?
I hope to get involved with the community and learn about its dynamics and customs, and despite the short time I will have as your guest, I hope to achieve a responsible approach to your culture, as well as an endearing and enriching approach to the public, those involved in VYKSA AIR, and the local art scene.
I am sure that we together will create a professional, respectful, interaction between all of us, and there will be enough room for brotherhood and fun as well.
As for the outcome I envisage, I aspire to an impeccably resolved work of art as a whole, defined by a well-founded and articulated discourse, solid research, and effective aesthetic force; an outcome that bridges the social, the institutional, and the imaginary of the creator; accessible to all audiences, with a user-friendly structure in its information and with the capacity to reach wider audiences than just the usual attendees of contemporary art events.
It is a fact that the project will be strengthened through the feedback that could emerge from discussions and exchanges with other colleagues and VIKSA AIR Team, it would be invaluable.
— What project do you want to implement in Vyksa, Russia?
The starting point for this project points and questions the phenomena surrounding cultural identity. A noun in which we mix the connotations created in the family nucleus, regional, social class, and nationality, among other aspects circumscribed within globalization. Therefore, it is proposed to use language as a system that links us to our roots, but also as an entity that is transformed, that can be deterritorialized and adapted to act as a bond in a world that, although transnational information transfer, usually fleeting, and subject to a global market, is also used as a switching tool that seeks to be more inclusive and that evidences the exchange and mixing of cultures as part of the fundamental structure of how societies have been and are configured.
The plan is to work with one text and two sentences. To be produced in steel, resulting in three-dimensional works of medium and large format.
The work is intended to be installed on public roads in Vyksa City.
The text is based on a pop song that I liked a lot the first time I visited Russia. A song that in 2018 had great exposure throughout the country, which makes it identifiable for a large segment of Russian society.
— What topics do you cover in your work? What are your favorite materials, tools, mediums?
My practice is continually linked to highlighting the ambivalent nature within various social systems; from power structures, such as political or economic, to the way we relate to the territory or interpersonal relationships. Over fifteen years I have worked with different methodologies and means of production; from video art designed for television to painting production, installation, and creation of an artist book series for over a decade. My activities these days are focused on launching a platform that links artistic work and a sustainable way of life, and access to different and wider audiences, far from the centralism of Mexico City, and in unitycongruence with my origins.
I believe that the challenge lies in resolving how to practice art not only as a speculative exercise, and producing projects that only remain “good intentions”, but rather translate the projects into being a positive and real force of social transformation. The second challenge is ensuringlies in ensuring that the artwork’s form and discourse are consistent. The beauty, the seductive, and the enveloping or disturbing nature of the materialities (if there are any) are crucial, as are discourse and research.
I believe that the art experience still has the possibility of impacting a person in such beneficial ways. These ways, ways that can show how valuable it is to be alive in our time, that it is not too late to create conditions for a more affordable and fair life. I undoubtedly believe that art is an action of resistance in the face of the abyss, a celebration of the possibilities and beauty that with luck, and a lot of dedication, can positively permeate our communities and culture.
- have you been to Russia? What would you like to try and see in Russia? Why did you decide to apply for our residency?
I had the opportunity to visit Russia in 2018, I did a workshop on sound art in a cultural center in the City of Arkhangelsk, I also had the opportunity to visit Moscow and experience another one of the biggest Cities on the planet, and culturally relevant to me, in the historical aspect, I must admit. :) My experience of Russian society was one of the best I have ever had, all the people I met were warm and open, in clear contradiction to Westernwestern stereotypes, I must point out that to this day, people I met during that visit have become some of the most endearing and important to me.
I could also identify with a less flattering aspect, and that is that like Mexico I could notice that we are societies of high contrasts, one that seemed evident to me, and complex, is the enormous gap between different social groups.
I decided to apply for this Residency because I think it is important that we, as agents of culture, seek to broaden the circulation of our proposals to audiences other than those who usually attend our events. The residency at VYKSA has the quality of using its high cultural activity and its metallurgical tradition to promote a project that links art and metallurgical work, in a public space, and thus try to reach a wider public.
On the other hand, I cannot hide my appreciation for the Russian people, and how important it is to show how it is rational and more viable to build bridges than to erect walls and divisions.
I hope to get involved with the community and learn about its dynamics and customs, and despite the short time I will have as your guest, I hope to achieve a responsible approach to your culture, as well as an endearing and enriching approach to the public, those involved in VYKSA AIR, and the local art scene.
I am sure that we together will create a professional, respectful, interaction between all of us, and there will be enough room for brotherhood and fun as well.
As for the outcome I envisage, I aspire to an impeccably resolved work of art as a whole, defined by a well-founded and articulated discourse, solid research, and effective aesthetic force; an outcome that bridges the social, the institutional, and the imaginary of the creator; accessible to all audiences, with a user-friendly structure in its information and with the capacity to reach wider audiences than just the usual attendees of contemporary art events.
It is a fact that the project will be strengthened through the feedback that could emerge from discussions and exchanges with other colleagues and VIKSA AIR Team, it would be invaluable.
— What project do you want to implement in Vyksa, Russia?
The starting point for this project points and questions the phenomena surrounding cultural identity. A noun in which we mix the connotations created in the family nucleus, regional, social class, and nationality, among other aspects circumscribed within globalization. Therefore, it is proposed to use language as a system that links us to our roots, but also as an entity that is transformed, that can be deterritorialized and adapted to act as a bond in a world that, although transnational information transfer, usually fleeting, and subject to a global market, is also used as a switching tool that seeks to be more inclusive and that evidences the exchange and mixing of cultures as part of the fundamental structure of how societies have been and are configured.
The plan is to work with one text and two sentences. To be produced in steel, resulting in three-dimensional works of medium and large format.
The work is intended to be installed on public roads in Vyksa City.
The text is based on a pop song that I liked a lot the first time I visited Russia. A song that in 2018 had great exposure throughout the country, which makes it identifiable for a large segment of Russian society.
— What topics do you cover in your work? What are your favorite materials, tools, mediums?
My practice is continually linked to highlighting the ambivalent nature within various social systems; from power structures, such as political or economic, to the way we relate to the territory or interpersonal relationships. Over fifteen years I have worked with different methodologies and means of production; from video art designed for television to painting production, installation, and creation of an artist book series for over a decade. My activities these days are focused on launching a platform that links artistic work and a sustainable way of life, and access to different and wider audiences, far from the centralism of Mexico City, and in unitycongruence with my origins.
I believe that the challenge lies in resolving how to practice art not only as a speculative exercise, and producing projects that only remain “good intentions”, but rather translate the projects into being a positive and real force of social transformation. The second challenge is ensuringlies in ensuring that the artwork’s form and discourse are consistent. The beauty, the seductive, and the enveloping or disturbing nature of the materialities (if there are any) are crucial, as are discourse and research.
I believe that the art experience still has the possibility of impacting a person in such beneficial ways. These ways, ways that can show how valuable it is to be alive in our time, that it is not too late to create conditions for a more affordable and fair life. I undoubtedly believe that art is an action of resistance in the face of the abyss, a celebration of the possibilities and beauty that with luck, and a lot of dedication, can positively permeate our communities and culture.
- have you been to Russia? What would you like to try and see in Russia? Why did you decide to apply for our residency?
I had the opportunity to visit Russia in 2018, I did a workshop on sound art in a cultural center in the City of Arkhangelsk, I also had the opportunity to visit Moscow and experience another one of the biggest Cities on the planet, and culturally relevant to me, in the historical aspect, I must admit. :) My experience of Russian society was one of the best I have ever had, all the people I met were warm and open, in clear contradiction to Westernwestern stereotypes, I must point out that to this day, people I met during that visit have become some of the most endearing and important to me.
I could also identify with a less flattering aspect, and that is that like Mexico I could notice that we are societies of high contrasts, one that seemed evident to me, and complex, is the enormous gap between different social groups.
I decided to apply for this Residency because I think it is important that we, as agents of culture, seek to broaden the circulation of our proposals to audiences other than those who usually attend our events. The residency at VYKSA has the quality of using its high cultural activity and its metallurgical tradition to promote a project that links art and metallurgical work, in a public space, and thus try to reach a wider public.
On the other hand, I cannot hide my appreciation for the Russian people, and how important it is to show how it is rational and more viable to build bridges than to erect walls and divisions.
