The self-fulfilling curse you describe — call the cultural class fifí, then defund them until only the fifí can afford to participate — that’s the mechanism that keeps repeating across Latin America. I’m Brazilian, and the Lula contrast you mention is real but more complicated on the ground than it looks from outside. The Ministry of Culture got restored, yes, but the gap Bolsonaro opened didn’t close with a signature. What filled it was exactly what you’re describing in Mexico — private money, professionalization, risk managed out of the work. The structural damage outlasts the policy. What stays with me from this piece is the younger artists performing professionalism over instinct. That anxiety isn’t Mexican — it’s what happens anywhere the floor disappears and nobody trusts it’s coming back.
In the U.S. our artists are either grant seeking corporate pleasers, social media brand "ambassadors," overworked teachers, married to a high paid professional, working jobs they don't want because they have no time for art, or living in cars.
Mientras leia su comentario, me imaginaba como se verian los flashbacks. Para empezar, cine documentalista de 16mm, granoso y con mucho zoom, pasando a video de imagen diafana, terminando con fotos y video de celular, impactante y desechable.
The self-fulfilling curse you describe — call the cultural class fifí, then defund them until only the fifí can afford to participate — that’s the mechanism that keeps repeating across Latin America. I’m Brazilian, and the Lula contrast you mention is real but more complicated on the ground than it looks from outside. The Ministry of Culture got restored, yes, but the gap Bolsonaro opened didn’t close with a signature. What filled it was exactly what you’re describing in Mexico — private money, professionalization, risk managed out of the work. The structural damage outlasts the policy. What stays with me from this piece is the younger artists performing professionalism over instinct. That anxiety isn’t Mexican — it’s what happens anywhere the floor disappears and nobody trusts it’s coming back.
As a chicana I wasn’t aware of so much of this, thanks for sharing
La lucha continúa. Voy a recomendar este artículo a mis amistades.
Thought-provoking: Looking at the current situation in Mexico though the lens of art. As @Diana van Eyk comments, happening all around
This stuff is happening everywhere. I wasn't aware of the situation in Mexico.
In the U.S. our artists are either grant seeking corporate pleasers, social media brand "ambassadors," overworked teachers, married to a high paid professional, working jobs they don't want because they have no time for art, or living in cars.
Mientras leia su comentario, me imaginaba como se verian los flashbacks. Para empezar, cine documentalista de 16mm, granoso y con mucho zoom, pasando a video de imagen diafana, terminando con fotos y video de celular, impactante y desechable.