31.8.06

Today was possibly my best day in santiago. i managed to wake up at 10 and met Jenna in the Plaza de Armas. It was cold and cloudy and felt like it was going to thunderstorm all day so everyone was walking around full of anticipation and general excitement. But it never did. We went to the museum of Santiago and followed around high school tours and it was pretty interesting to get a better understanding of how the city developed and why it's like it is now. Then I remembered about this performance art piece happening at the Museo Arte Contemporaneo so we went and it was amazing. The artist was this neat Brazilian guy and it was all in portuguese and all interactive, kind of like a game. I guess it was about communication and fluidity and thinking about our bodies and how we give and recieve. and I could understand it all! in portuguesel! I'm not going to explain it because i think it will be impossible to convey the experience but taking part in it was a more beautiful feeling than I've felt from ever looking at a piece of artwork. I can't stop being excited about it. It was neat, there were only about 15 of us and the museum was closed because it was between installations and it was fun to be there and feel like we all knew eachother even though we never even introduced ourselves and then we had to leave through the secret construction exit and it made me think a lot about how interested I am in curating, not to mention performance art obviously. Then I came to the not very profound realization that I'm only here for a short amount of time and need to just do everything that intersts me and not worry about needing to sleep. But even after deciding that I was still too hungry and tired to go see Raul Zurita (a really famous and interesting chilean poet who was also part of CADA, the groups that did art actions in the 70s against the dictatorship). Eating is important too though (I made pasta with tomatos and garlic and onion and apples and somehow it was delicious). But walking home we stumbled upon a really really cool independent movie theatre that also has a lot of live music and neat things happening there and we went back and saw "Dias de Santiago" about an x-soldier in Peru which was muy fuerte. And we were going to go back again and see a show at 12 but i decided it was probably a bad idea to walk a half hour alone to a kind of sketchy area at midnight, so we'll have to go back some other night. And my globablization class started getting interesting. I'm still confused, we have a different teacher every day , but this one was from social studies, not economics, and it was interesting. And Maria Angelica called me in the middle of the movie to tell me she had found me a job! But it was in the middle of the movie and then my phone died so I don't know what sort of job or anything. but still, bacán!

1 comment:

MaiaLouise said...

Hey KellyAnne! I hope you're having a wonderful time in the south of the world. Laurie Husted might be able to store the Art Co-op supplies with the SOS stuff in Kappa House this year, but she wants to know about our policies for "collecting art materials from off campus, that do not find a use, and
that when disposed of become hazardous waste." such as aerosol and latex paints. she said she talked to you about it last year? what did you tell her? we're supposed to have some sort of operating procedure, or else she won't let us use the space. anyway... I'm flying to Bard tomorrow! it's exciting, but I'm gonna be sooo tired. -hug- talk to you later ~Maia ps. I would call but I'm not sure if it's $5 a minute to talk to you or not.