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(Haunted) Folklore series, 1-3 (Lucky Kitchen 009, 010, and 011)
Alejandra Salinas,
Lucky Kitchen,
Aeron Bergman
The title means “haunted ruins”, although “encantado” is also what you say in Spanish when you first meet someone, meaning that you have been touched somehow by their presence. Based roughly around the idea of fantasy, we ask: what is folklore? With a healthy belief in the future, based on a continuous dialogue with the past, imagination is totally relevant. Religion, rituals, and future utopia are public fantasies to transcend the empirical world and appreciate the mysteries of being here. Contemporary utopian images are stunted, thus limiting possible change. We offer our ideas of contemporary audio fantasy. All sounds are based on legends and folk tales.
Brief notes on our use of technology
Using our electronic tools of preference, this work considers the past, while not repeating it. It is not interesting to merely state that we are using the computer. (Businessmen, grandmas, bus drivers, athletes, congresswomen, lawyers, artists, and yes, musicians all over the world have used computers in their daily life for several generations now. Describing computers as “new media” is like saying oil paint is new because it was invented after bone carving.) Instead, we suggest that the folklore of our time is as much online as it is offline.
Basically, we are brewing up a storytelling storm, where the medium is the medium, and not the message itself.
Likewise, Lucky Kitchen presents technology as a commonplace communication medium of secondary importance to the ideas behind it. Lucky Kitchen is as personal as it is technical. Lucky Kitchen presents our own work and the work of others, when we find special qualities somewhere between technique and sentiment...
Brief notes on our use of technology
Using our electronic tools of preference, this work considers the past, while not repeating it. It is not interesting to merely state that we are using the computer. (Businessmen, grandmas, bus drivers, athletes, congresswomen, lawyers, artists, and yes, musicians all over the world have used computers in their daily life for several generations now. Describing computers as “new media” is like saying oil paint is new because it was invented after bone carving.) Instead, we suggest that the folklore of our time is as much online as it is offline.
Basically, we are brewing up a storytelling storm, where the medium is the medium, and not the message itself.
Likewise, Lucky Kitchen presents technology as a commonplace communication medium of secondary importance to the ideas behind it. Lucky Kitchen is as personal as it is technical. Lucky Kitchen presents our own work and the work of others, when we find special qualities somewhere between technique and sentiment...
Aeron Bergman (USA) studierte Kunstgeschichte an der Michigan State University und an der University of Toronto sowie Kunst und Technologie an der New York University. Er heiratete Alejandra Salinas 1998 in New York, nachdem er 1997 Lucky Kitchen mit Daniel Raffel und ihr gegründet hatte. Nach einem Aufenthalt in London lebt und arbeitet er in Logrono (Spanien). Alejandra Salinas (E) studierte bildende Kunst an der School of Visual Arts in New York und an der Londoner Guildhall University. 1997 gründete sie mit Aeron Bergman und Daniel Raffel Lucky Kitchen, heiratete Bergman 1998, lebt und arbeitet mit ihm in Logrono (Spanien).
Aeron Bergman (USA), studied Art History at Michigan State University, The University of Toronto and Art and Technology at New York University. Married Alejandra Salinas in NYC, 1998. Formed Lucky Kitchen with Daniel Raffael and A.S. in 1997. Lived in London and currently lives and works in Logrono, Spain.
Alejandra Salinas (E), studied Fine Arts at The School of Visual Arts (NYC) and London Guildhall University. Married Aeron Bergman in NYC, 1998. Formed Lucky Kitchen with Daniel Raffel and A.B. in 1997. Currently lives and works in Logrono, Spain.
Alejandra Salinas (E), studied Fine Arts at The School of Visual Arts (NYC) and London Guildhall University. Married Aeron Bergman in NYC, 1998. Formed Lucky Kitchen with Daniel Raffel and A.B. in 1997. Currently lives and works in Logrono, Spain.