ARTE VOZ: Speak Your Story sample (CASAdeMd August 2015) by Muriel Hasbun published on 2015-08-11T21:15:48Z This is a sample audio piece of ARTE VOZ, a laberinto projects engagement project, promoting healing, dialogue and cultural understanding through the art from Central America. An intergenerational group of recent immigrants and first generation Americans participated in a workshop led by Muriel Hasbun and laberinto projects. They responded to artworks made by Central American artists during the Salvadoran civil war and its aftermath, and this is what they said... As individuals respond to the art of Central America, they are empowered to add their own story to the emerging collective narrative and to the larger transnational art archive housed by laberinto projects. laberinto projects is a collaborative, arts and lens-based, education and cultural legacy preservation platform, consisting of a digital archive of art, documentation and video oral histories of artists of Central America working during the Salvadoran civil war and its aftermath. laberinto projects provides a lens into the state of the arts during the 1980's and 90's in El Salvador, fosters research and outreach projects across borders, and promotes post war healing, transnational dialogue and cultural understanding in El Salvador and in the United States. There is a huge need for art that speaks to our population… Art gives voice. Art embodies history and culture: it has the power to reach deeply into personal memory and elicits responses that name the previously unavowed in the same breath as it validates the every day. As communities tell their story, invisibility gives way to repair. Art --through its making and through our encounter with it— empowers individuals to construct a first person narrative that affirms history and culture, and galvanizes communities with a sense of identity. Update August 2016: The archive of stories keeps growing! ARTE VOZ is at the American University Museum in Washington DC and at the Centro Cultural de España in San Salvador, until June-August 14, 2016. Added to the project is an audio booth sculpture designed in collaboration with Salvadoran artist Baltasar Portillo. With the support of ThinkLabs Medical, participants are also able to hear and transmit their heartbeats to the other location! Follow #laberintoprojects for other workshops, http://www.laberintoprojects.com and http://www.murielhasbun.com Audio piece: Copyright Muriel Hasbun and laberinto projects Image: Copyright Caroline Lacey and laberinto projects. Genre laberintoprojects
