Language: Spanish

A triptych para pandemia. [Un Poemema]

León de la Rosa

Koronapandemia-aiheinen gif-triptyykki.
Corona pandemia themed gif triptych.

During these months of isolation, still in full force in Mexico where I reside most of us have submerged ourselves in an unending ocean of news, videos and images to not only stay up to date on the latest about the coivd-19 pandemic but also to escape it and carve out some safe spaces for our own mental health and sense of hope. In other words, we rely on the same devices, the same screens, to remain informed and to escape such information. That tension, ripe with poetic possibilities, is perfectly encapsulated by the barrage of internet memes that have emerged commenting, ridiculing and even attempting to explain our shared plight. These, along with my previous research into the language of Internet Memes, were some of the thoughts that went into crafting the poememe A Triptych para Pandemia, where a sense of urgency and hopelessness rubs up against the banality of internet visual culture, written in espanglish as most everything I write since it is the lingua franca of the MX-US border, la frontera that smashed me into shape.

Julkaistu Nokturnossa 2020 | Published in Nokturno 2020

I. Porque profits.

II. Porque dominion.

III. Porque needs.

Epilogo. Porque what’s next?

Gifiography:

Five sound poems | Cinco poemas sonoros

Ernesto Estrella Cózar

Viisi ääntä, tekstiä ja valokuvaa yhdistävää runoa.
Five soundpoems with text and photography.

Textos/Text: Ernesto Estrella Cózar
Fotografías/Photography: Nysos Vasilopoulos

* Horizon is a piece done for an installation that was shown in a Vermont museum; it was part of festival homage to Lidochka, the 1920s ballet dancer who disappeared in strange circumstances at the start of the Revolution.

Julkaistu Nokturnossa 2010 | Published in Nokturno 2010

Man with Hood

Bikes

Circus

Questioning Glance

Horizon