read by Romina Freschi notes in presenting Plebella Station # 20 halogen after the first session of Reynaldo Jiménez
Bienvenidos
Gracias Reynaldo Jiménez. Gracias amigos.
Antes de empezar el intervalo quiero contar algunas cosas.
Hace más de 6 años, en este mismo espacio que entonces se inauguraba, presentabamos Plebella #1.
Hoy presentamos Plebella #20.
Para los que escribimos hace años, que una revista de poesía llegue a su edición # 20 sin estar relacionada con ninguna institución, y sin ser subsidiaria de un diario u otra publicación o de los suplementos culturales, parece un milagro, y mirando nuestra historia y nuestro esfuerzo, ciertamente lo es.
Someone once called "desguarecida" and taking the word of those who came, may make some sense. But Plebella not seek shelter, does not seek protection, it may be necessary but at some point we do not propose that. I call it independent, but I think I do only for the effort to communicate, but that the truth is that not enough.
Plebella is actually impossible. Adrian told me that Pedreira, years ago, and it is true. It is utopian, outdated, difficult, bizarre, full, ambitious, coherent, concrete, virtual, interspatial, craft, blah blah blah.
Plebella is impossible, and I suppose that it exists.
Plebella # 20 also, as every issue it was until now. And as each issue so far, a challenge and a turning point.
For one thing, in itself, the dossier of Reynaldo Jiménez a milestone that will not necessarily be a routine but does mark a power and reinforce elasticity Plebella be impossible: to address an author long desired inaugurate this approach and give the necessary space for the result to be deployed with multiple collaborators working at the same time and with the present work.
I think it's obvious that this milestone Plebella has marked Reynaldo Jiménez. For me personally and for many who write for years, the presence of Reynaldo is inspiring. I have often said that
In the book that I read Roland Barthes says that writing is, among other things, an act of love, in the sense that when we write we speak of others we love, we witness to them, immortalized. He says especially for fiction, but I never could think Plebella as a means of communication, I always thought as an art object, a space for creation, a work collective course, but art in itself, always. From there, Plebella is also a place to read the authors we love, things we like, that we find interesting.
While what I say may be quite obvious, the fact is that I can only say now, after passing the 20 numbers, and the choices that these 20 numbers involved. In that sense, it is important to me now after these 20 numbers, spend all the work of these years to my mom, who is certainly the person who taught me to work hard for the things I want and I owe all my willpower.
On the other side and into the future, Plebella # 20 also marks the end of an era. Without still too many details I do want to say that Plebella # 21 will have a greater online presence, this is going to work more with web page content, www.plebella.com.ar and this implies also change in the specific design of the magazine, in its materials, which are organic wherever possible, and clearly into their mode of production. But the idea is the same: keep doing things.
halogen Station Thanks again for being our den and our hangar.
to continue the party ...
video recording of the presentation
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