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Arte Queer Chicano bitácora arquitectura + número 34 EN Arte queer chicano Uriel Vides Bautista A mediados de 2015, la Galería de la Raza exhibió un mural que provocó triarcales de la sociedad dominante y los valores hegemónicos de la mascu- una acalorada discusión en redes sociales y actos de iconoclastia contem- linidad chicana, reafirmando a la vez el hecho de ser bilingües y biculturales poránea. El mural, que representa a sujetos queer, fue violentado tres veces dentro de Estados Unidos. consecutivas debido a cierta homofobia cultural que prevalece dentro de un sector de la comunidad chicana asentada en Mission District, San Fran- cisco. El contenido de esta obra y la significación dentro de su contexto son II algunos aspectos que analizaré a lo largo de este breve ensayo. El mural digital de Maricón Collective se inserta dentro de la tradición mu- ralista chicana, que tiene su origen en los murales que “los tres grandes”8 pintaron en distintos lugares de Estados Unidos, pero principalmente en I California. Mientras que en México el muralismo agotaba sus temáticas y La Galería de la Raza se encuentra ubicada en la 24th Street de Mission agonizaba junto con la vida de Siqueiros, en Estados Unidos resurgía de for- District, el barrio más antiguo de San Francisco.1 Este barrio fue en la década ma asombrosa gracias al Movimiento Chicano. Durante este periodo, según de 1970, en palabras del historiador Manuel G. Gonzales, “el corazón del George Vargas, los barrios chicanos de las principales ciudades del país se movimiento muralista de la ciudad”. La proliferación de murales fue impul- cubrieron de coloridos murales que, realizados de manera comunitaria, ex- sada, en este periodo, por los aires renovadores del llamado Movimiento presaban temas fundamentales para la comunidad como la raza, la clase, el Chicano.2 Ante la falta de espacios adecuados para la recreación y el espar- orgullo étnico y la denuncia social.9 cimiento, artistas y activistas chicanos pugnaron por la creación de centros En un ensayo, Edward J. McCaughan observa que el nacionalismo cul- culturales que sirvieran también para impulsar la toma de conciencia entre tural “fue un discurso poderoso dentro de muchos frentes del Movimiento los vecinos del barrio: Mujeres Muralistas, Precita Eyes Mural Art Center y la Chicano conforme buscó fortalecer el orgullo de la comunidad mexicana- Galería de la Raza son tres casos ejemplares.3 americana en la sociedad estadounidense blanca y supremacista”.10 No obs- En 1971 se inauguró la Galería de la Raza, la cual “ha emergido como un tante las buenas intenciones, este discurso nacionalista excluyó a las sexua- foro internacional para la examinación y la expresión de conceptos artísticos lidades no normativas presentes dentro de la comunidad. Refiriéndose a centrales a la experiencia chicana/latina, tales como la memoria comunita- algunos artistas gays y feministas que aparecieron en las décadas de 1970 y ria, la cultura popular, el activismo familiar y social”. En la década de 1980, 1980, McCaughan apunta que: este espacio comenzó a exhibir pinturas murales en una de sus paredes ex- ternas –pared que fue ganada, por cierto, después de un litigio legal contra El nacionalismo cultural fue ciertamente una fuente de empoderamiento para una compañía publicitaria. A mediados de la década de 1990, se puso en muchos chicanos como lo fue para muchos pueblos alrededor del mundo, pero marcha el Digital Mural Project, el cual sustituyó los murales pintados in situ para las chicanas feministas y los chicanos gays, expresar su ser en sus propios por imágenes generadas a través de computadoras.4 términos, libres de las restricciones de las tradiciones patriarcales de su comuni- Por sus distintas actividades relacionadas con la promoción del arte y la dad, requirió a menudo de gran coraje y creatividad.11 cultura de la diversidad sexual, Maricón Collective recibió de la Galería de la Raza la comisión de elaborar un mural digital que fue exhibido en el marco El arte chicano contemporáneo se encuentra en un momento de transi- del San Francisco Pride Month del año pasado.5 Maricón Collective está ción en el que es común encontrar propuestas que no se insertan dentro integrado por cuatro artistas de Los Ángeles, autodefinidos como chicanos de determinados paradigmas estéticos, pues los artistas más jóvenes –los queer: Rudy Bleu, Carlos Morales, Manuel Paul y Michael Rodríguez. Funda- llamados millennials– han sido educados dentro de los discursos de la pos- do en 2014, el colectivo se ha dedicado principalmente a organizar fiestas modernidad y la globalización. Algunas de sus características, según Tomás y a vender sus propios productos: reproducciones de sus obras en playeras, Ybarra-Frausto, son las siguientes: gorras, stickers, fanzines, pósteres y demás.6 La reapropiación del término maricón –utilizado en nuestro idioma La actitud y la postura hacia la iconografía cultural nacional y las tradiciones cul- siempre de manera despectiva, como sinónimo de afeminado, cobarde u turales son menos reverenciales, más imprecisas e incluso alegres e irónicas. Hay homosexual– ha servido al colectivo como una herramienta de empode- cada vez más una filiación con la cultura mundial de masas: la moda, los medios ramiento que invierte su significado negativo y reivindica la condición de de comunicación y el cine. El género, la sexualidad y el deseo amplían sus marcos ser queer dentro de una comunidad fuertemente machista.7 Este grupo de teóricos. […] Las tecnologías digitales expanden formas de arte público como mu- artistas produce discursos visuales que se contraponen a los esquemas pa- rales y billboards cuyas imágenes son generadas a través de computadoras […]12 0126 julio + noviembre 2016 Maricón Collective, Por Vida, 2015, mural digital. Galería de la Raza. Imagen tomada del archivo de la Galería de la Raza: http://www.galeriadelaraza.org Para llegar a nuestros días, el muralismo chicano ha tenido que actualizarse mientras que a sus espaldas aparece rota la enorme cadena –símbolo de técnica y discursivamente, aunque ello no signifique un quiebre total con opresión y sometimiento– que une y a la vez divide, entre flores de colores, la tradición. Los jóvenes muralistas reflexionan, a través de su obra, sobre las tres partes del mural. temas que les conciernen directamente: el mural opera, tal como en la dé- Más allá de los afectos que explícitamente expresan, estas imágenes afir- cada de 1960 y 1970, como espacio de protesta y arma de empoderamiento. man la existencia de sexualidades no normativas dentro de las subculturas En este sentido, cabe señalar que la Galería de la Raza ha desempeñado chicanas, especialmente entre los cholos de barrio, cosa que no es nueva, pero un papel significativo en la actualización técnica y discursiva del movimien- que cuando sale a la luz causa incomodidad entre algunos miembros de la co- to mural en San Francisco. Desde el inicio del Digital Mural Project, la galería munidad. Hay que recordar que el cholo se asocia con la imagen del hombre exhibe mes con mes un mural digital que muestra temáticas relevantes para racializado, heterosexual y varonil que jamás muestra rasgos de debilidad. Es los miembros de la comunidad chicana. Este mural, establece una relación notorio que además de este estereotipo, el mural también cuestiona la apa- de interacción, diálogo o conflicto con el entorno y comunica mensajes en rente exclusividad heterosexual dentro de esta subcultura urbana;15 por ello, su mayoría de corte político-social. Fiel a su compromiso con la sociedad, la la propuesta estética de Maricón Collective resulta interesante en tanto se Galería acoge la expresión artística de todos los miembros de la comunidad, apropia, cuestiona y transgrede esta imagen tradicionalmente masculina. Para incluidos aquéllos que por ejercer una sexualidad no normativa viven en María de Jesús Dopacio, las propuestas artísticas en el contexto chicano: condición de marginación. [...] se encaminan hacia la descolonización de las prácticas políticas y sexuales, III hacia la erradicación de la otredad según la cual se inscribe la subjetividad del El mural digital que nos ocupa en este ensayo, Por Vida, fue expuesto del 5 color y, por último, hacia la transgresión de los parámetros sociales y culturales de junio al 17 de julio de 2015 y resulta excepcional dentro del muralismo que mantienen a los/las chicanos/as queer subordinados/as, en espacios sub- chicano por su tema. A través de una estética que recuerda los trabajos pic- alternos. Su resistencia al silenciamiento desarticula un tabú cultural: el de la tóricos multicolores vertidos sobre las superficies de los vehículos lowrider, homofobia.16 el mural representa a cinco sujetos queer.13 Nos encontramos frente a, según el cristal con que se mire, una celebración de la diversidad sexual dentro la A decir de Manuel Paul, diseñador del mural, éste “fue creado para celebrar comunidad chicana o un ataque contra la imagen estereotipada del home- la cultura chican@/latin@ [sic] lgbt dentro de un barrio históricamente chi- boy o cholo14 que aquí es reapropiada. cano” y agrega que “[a] través de nuestro arte y nuestro trabajo presentamos Se trata de una composición figurativa, bastante colorida, dividida en contra-historias que reflejan a losqueers que han crecido en el barrio. Ser queer tres partes. Del lado izquierdo del mural observamos a una pareja de cholos dentro del barrio no es una moda o un concepto nuevo, siempre ha existido, fundidos en tierno abrazo, como si de repente hubieran sido sorprendidos pero
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