HOLA PUNK MEHICO, MANG.
It’s Mexico Month on VBS.tv! And to celebrate they went down to Mexico City and talked with some of the city’s brightest art stars, Miguel Calderon and Yoshua Okon.
Rory from Vice just sent us this….
“Nineteen-ninety-four was the craziest fucking year Mexico’s ever seen. NAFTA had just started, the presidential candidate bound to win the election was murdered at a rally in Tijuana, a bishop was murdered allegedly because of connections to the narcos, and we had one of the worst economic crisis in decades after the peso dropped to a fraction of its value overnight. But not everything was bad. The Zapatista uprising happened that year, too, and Yoshua Okon and Miguel Calderón opened a small gallery in La Condesa called La Panadería (the Bakery)….
When I called Miguel to see if he would let us visit him at his studio he told me that he didn’t have one and instead we should just meet at a cantina to have some Negra Modelos and caballitos de Tequila. The place he suggested, Covadonga, is an old Spanish social club in Colonia Roma where old folks play dominos next to musicians, filmmakers, actors, and your standard drunks….”
Check out the really awesome video interview with Miguel here .
And then here for the talks with Yoshua Okon and, yes, a dog-boinking episode…
