Vamos a la Playa, de Azul Blaseotto

Presentation of the comic book 'Vamos a la Playa' by Azul Blaseotto
book signing, silkscreens, zines, cold beer and whatever comes out

Vamos a la playa, a comic.128 pages. Black and white Cover color. Spanish. 17x24cms.
Tren en Movimiento and unproblema+ Ediciones, Buenos Aires, April 2018.

The novel promises from its title, pure pop - "Vamos a la playa" was the hit of the summer of '83, of authorship disputed between Donald (Argentine) and the duo Righeira (Italian) - , but its content includes punk (Die Toten Hosen), Rioplatense music (Onda Vaga) and references to other melodies (Ute Lemper). Of course, all Canto dibujado.

It is a nonfiction writing that condenses in a trip several incursions of its author to the Buenosairean coast, a real and delirious space that it is known to be (among other data that we will not reveal here) the cradle of the national rock and the first bikini at these latitudes.

This geopolitical space is approached simultaneously from its geography and from the landscape (understood as a category of the History of Art); from cultural history and the denial of genocide to native peoples; from autobiography and imagination.

As in a mamushka, one story blankets another story, and so on. Che Guevara does nudism; Carlos Gesell plants a forest in a desert; León Ferrari draws passionately; the railway workers vindicate their workers' struggle and a couple of porteños try to go by train to the beach ... in a country where the railways do not reach the sea.

BIO
Azul Blaseotto (1974, Buenos Aires) is a visual artist, full-length author of comics and university professor. She studied at the University of Arts / U.N.A, Buenos Aires and obtained the Art in Context Postgraduate Degree from the Universität der Künste / UDK in Berlin. First Prize "Szenario Preis", International Festival of Comic Fumetto (2008). She is co-founder of the artistic collective La Dársena (2010) from where she has researched and developed collaborative artistic practices and co-curated exhibitions and publications with artists and agents of the Latin American, European and North American cultural media.

She develops research with artistic methods around the world of work and cognitive-cultural work; human rights and nature under the paradigm of extractivism; and the relationships between urbanism and ideology. His work draws on the history, ecology, politics and narrative forms of non-fiction. Since 2010 draws in the trials for crimes against humanity committed by the last dictatorship in Argentina. Collaborate with ecological activists in Latin America, drawing and giving workshops.
She is the author of "Class and nature in colors: how to build a museum" (2013, unproblema+ Edicines, Buenos Aires) and co-authored with Eduardo Molinari of "The Hotel" (European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, Berlin 2012)

"Made with the support of the" Argentine Cultural and Creative Development Fund of the Ministry of Culture of the Nation ".