By Carlos Fonseca, translated by Ellen Donnison At the age of twenty in a foolish and juvenile fit of rage, I promised myself I would never read Shakespeare. The canon overwhelmed me and I found it sterile and hardly productive that the academy taught this English writer. I had reached my twenties without reading his […]

CIRCOLOMBIA – ACELERE 14 April – 3 May 2015 Roundhouse,  Chalk Farm Road, London NW1 8EH Suitable for all ages, £15 – £29.50 Roundhouse.org  By Lucía Nieto Maestre Circolombia, the Colombian circus company, presented their new production Acelere (accelerate) in London with an explosive mixture of acrobatics, live music, colours and dance that causes the audience […]

By Jessica Sequeira Todos éramos hijos María Rosa Lojo Sudamericana, 2014  The election and re-election of Perón. The Cordobazo protest movement. The guerilla activities of the Montoneros. The return of Perón and the Ezeiza massacre. The assassination of José Ignacio Rucci. The violence of the Triple A. The death of Perón. The presidency of Isabelita. The move […]

By Verónica Sanchis, translated by Ellen Donnison   Album Erotico II – Wild Palms Dance. ©Karen Paulina Biswell Karen Paulina Biswell was born in Aruba in 1983 and grew up in both Colombia and France. From a certain perspective her work can be considered documentary. However, Biswell never started out with the intention of exposing […]

Translation by Ellen Donnison Misha Vallejo was born in 1985 in Riobamba, Ecuador. In 2014 he completed his Masters in Documentary Photography at the University of Arts in London. In 2010 he finished his work at the Faculty of Photojournalism at Saint Petersburg, Russia. Since then he has worked as an independent photographer and in […]

Translation by Ellen Donnison Cristóbal and Alejandro Olivares are Chilean photographers, both of whom founded the independent editorial initiative, Buen Lugar Ediciones, which prints photographic books in Chile. Buen Lugar Ediciones was set up in Santiago de Chile in January 2014. Its first publication was entitled, Living Periferia, and was filled with work by Alejandro […]

                                  Claudia Paternostro is an Argentine visual artist. Her techniques include cloth stamping, wood engraving and painting on porcelain. Since 1995 she has participated in workshops on drawing and painting coordinated by Beatriz Morneau, Clara Viale and Marino Santa María, […]

Jonio González was born in Buenos Aires in 1954 and has lived in Barcelona since 1983. With Javier Cófreces he founded the poetry magazine La Danza del Ratón. Work of his has appeared in several anthologies, and his books include El oro de la república (Buenos Aires, 1982), Muro de máscaras (Buenos Aires, 1987), Últimos poemas […]

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Francisco Ide Wolleter (Santiago, 1989) has published Observatory (Corriente Alterna Editions, 2011), Yakuza (Cinosargo Editions 2014) and Poems for Michael Jordan (Luma Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland; Ajiaco Editions, Santiago; 2014). He was awarded a scholarship by the Fundación Pablo Neruda in 2010. His texts were included in the anthologies Tea Party, Tri-national anthology of poetry: Peru, Bolivia, Chile (Cinosargo / […]

By Ellen Donnison This month Ventana Latina had the pleasure of interviewing Cesar Gustavo Iriate, a student at the University of Sussex. Cesar is currently undertaking a doctorate in in economics and his research is geared towards Mexico and its economic labour. Cesar is also the vice-president of MEXAS (Mexican and Latin American Students at […]

By Marilyne Buda Translated by Ellen Donnison Photos copyright Lempicka Brian  From the meeting of Müller and Makaroff, the two founders of the Gotan Project, and Catherine Ringer, the voice of legendary French band, Les Rita Mitsouko, Plaza Francia was born. This unexpected and avant-garde collaboration is another renewal of the vision of tango, uniting […]