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Colin Rusch

Posts: 1,435
Registered: Oct 16, 2002

Coyote Art
Posted: Oct 17, 2004 5:05 PM

Jaime,

Per your request, here is the thread for Coyote. I know you've discussed the Coyote project from a number of angles in these forums. But, I am curious about its origins and your choice of timing. I've found it exciting, irritating, and bit slippery to manage as the moderator of these forums. Tell us a bit more about your intention and how you understand its development.

Colin

jaime longoria

Posts: 1,161
Registered: Oct 7, 2002

Re: Coyote Art
Posted: Oct 19, 2004 8:33 AM

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You have caught me off guard with your question. Although the Coyote is at times a "glamorous" figure, the nature of the character is "shy". The objective here has always been to have the spotlight turned on the "persona" being "tricked" and illuminate the foolishness of that "persona's" words.

Words are the "pigments" here on this vast canvas. Where the Coyote has sought to paint the form of the great and Invisible Minnesota Nice Racism. As if it were a great phantom that devoured the true and loving hearts of the Artists of Minnesota.

Certainly this has been, is and will continue to be a fool's quest.

To explain, describe and justify Coyote is a daunting task. But as you have asked; so the Coyote must answer.

I will need help. For this purpose I will be sending e-mails to key "players" in the "Drama" that has been Coyote.

Please be patient with me and those that I invite here as I hope that this "forum" will be quite magical in that "live" group thinking will occur here.

Coyote Infinity
Jaime

> Jaime,
>
> Per your request, here is the thread for Coyote. I
> know you've discussed the Coyote project from a
> number of angles in these forums. But, I am curious
> about its origins and your choice of timing. I've
> found it exciting, irritating, and bit slippery to
> manage as the moderator of these forums. Tell us a
> bit more about your intention and how you understand
> its development.
>
> Colin

Colin Rusch

Posts: 1,435
Registered: Oct 16, 2002

Re: Coyote Art
Posted: Oct 19, 2004 1:00 PM

Great. I am looking forward to it.

Ray Rolfe

Posts: 3,263
From: Northeast Minneapolis
Registered: Sep 5, 2001

Re: Coyote Art
Posted: Oct 20, 2004 2:35 AM

OOOoOoOOOOoooo

On the edge of my seat here.

jaime longoria

Posts: 1,161
Registered: Oct 7, 2002

Re: Coyote Art
Posted: Oct 27, 2004 7:57 AM

> OOOoOoOOOOoooo
>
> On the edge of my seat here.

Good morning my friends; I have been without my seat; running hard at many events, soaking in visions of despair over the state of the Arts! Many people who are not artists are dismayed by the "listlessness" of our Minnesota Artists! After lengthy discussion as to what is meant it is clear that those who we would have as "patrons" are unimpressed with the current "look" of Art. Many are opting to funding and patronizing "music and the other performing Arts".

So this morning I am in a one man "Arts Directions Retreat" to explore ways and means that I can turn my "Painting" into a "Music and Performing Art activity". It will be a grueling and painful experience, but I feel up to it.

Idea Sessions:

"Brush Rhythms and Samba"

"Color Theory and Classical Barrack Formats"

"Non Traditional Materials in Nordic Chorale Music"

" La Cucharacha in Blues"

Lunch

"Open Space Approach to Performance Creation"

"Summary and Goodbye"

Coyote Infinity

jaime longoria

Posts: 1,161
Registered: Oct 7, 2002

Re: Coyote Art
Posted: Oct 27, 2004 8:40 AM

> Jaime,
>
> Per your request, here is the thread for Coyote. I
> know you've discussed the Coyote project from a
> number of angles in these forums. But, I am curious
> about its origins and your choice of timing. I've
> found it exciting, irritating, and bit slippery to
> manage as the moderator of these forums. Tell us a
> bit more about your intention and how you understand
> its development.
>
> Colin

Coyote is my "Shamanism mask".
Coyote Dos is the mask in my hand with my face peering out of it into my eyes.
Coyote Cuatro was created at Crearte, as a result of scaring the "jefito" ruling that "corner". It came into being the day he in desperation shouted "you have to give this coyote thing up; I see coyote in front of me, to the sides and everywhere I turn,...". Coyote Cuatro is the mask that bedevils the "dishonest and shameful".
Coyote 16 was created out of 'Uno' saying to Coyote Cuatro; "you don't need the Latino People, man; you have the white vote, you belong to the white artists, man you don't need us anymore,...maybe that's a good thing, maybe not, I don't know, but man it's great power, man you are now all over the place,.."
Coyote 256 was created when other "performance artists" working in none traditional forms on the "E" found Coyote and emailed encouragement in the pursuit of this form of performance. The "key" descriptor for Coyote 256 Art is that it is focused on the being "Googled".
Coyote Infinity was born out of my overhearing at an Art opening a discussion of the effect and value of the "Coyote" to Art in general. In effect Coyote Infinity exists when, lets say you, Colin talk about "Coyote" with someone else; especially when you discuss the "idea" of an Artist changing the Social- Political structure of the Art Scene. Infinity was cemented when a "lurker" emailed me to say that he saw me listening to them talking about me and that it was a riot when I introduced myself and they about shit and died! But that it was a good thing because the issue of Institutional Racism was then the topic of discussion. The 'lurker' went on to state that he was awed to watch the Coyote not say a word further on in the discussion but have "Coyote Words" came out of the mouths of these other people.

To help you understand Colin; image Coyote as a dancer who by moving in out of a crowd of people gets them moving in a "rhythm and rhyme" that narrates and reveals a social truth.

Can you "see" this? Can you "feel" it?

For example: When Jimmy Longoria signed up for the mnartists.org page he signed in as "Jaime". Jaime is the name "given" to the artist Jimmy when he works with Hispanic/Chicano Children. It is a "mask" of sorts that was chosen by the children to "define" Jimmy as not belonging to the "Anglo" culture; note here that 'children' have an intuitive understanding of what is real; when I work with children I; Jimmy the Artist is 'Jaime the painter man' and I do not even speak in the same manner as most people know me to speak. I speak "Artistese". When "Jaime" was "belittled" for "unintelligent" ideas, the Coyote mask was put on; almost immediately other "masks" were put on; Lux Lumen, Mays Nueman and a couple of half ass attempts to play in the center of the forums. Remember how you were so taken in by the "dance" that you thought "Jimmy" was both Coyote and the other Masks!

That was a great day for me as a performance artist. The goal of Coyote is to get the "other" dancer(s) to speak the Coyote's "Truth". In a dance context; can I get you to Samba with me in the same way the Tango works. Can you "see" this?

When Jimmy the artist had a "secret" one man showing of his most recent paintings in the Saint Paul ArtCrawl both Bob and Mikey made thier way to the show! Bob came right up and introduced himself and actually shook hands with the "Coyote" and Mikey came in disguise!(a clear mask). It was a great day for Coyote because as a performer he 'physically' moved his audience. Both of men behind the 'voices' here 'felt' the need to be in the presence of the Artist "Jimmy". Please note that the identification in the "secret show" was just Jimmy, both men had to conciously "look" for the Coyote 'behind' the Jimmy face.

Is this helping you to understand?

Do you understand "Cantu" ?

coyote infinity
over Jaime's face
smiling with love
for a talented dancer

Message was edited by: jaime longoria at Nov 2, 2004 7:28 AM

jaime longoria

Posts: 1,161
Registered: Oct 7, 2002

Re: Coyote Art
Posted: Nov 8, 2004 8:43 AM

Posts: 1,253
Registered: Oct 16, 2002

Re: The Fight Club
Posted: Jun 9, 2003 6:27 PM

"I like this forum. Up for debate...how interesting, or not so interesting, has it been to watch Jaime as Coyote debate with himself as Mays and Lux?

Colin "

This is from a posting in the X-pit forum.

It speaks to the "power" of the coyote performance to create a "perception" that is not organic to the person of the "audience".

Colin is not an easy person to delude but it should be noted that the "dialogues" up to the date of this post were intended to spawn a verbal exchange that allowed the "coyote" to retreat his "posotion and be chased until his opponents found themselves standing on "the coyote's positions".

It can be noted that a common reaction was for the opponent to become self- silenced upon discovering the "words" of coyote coming out of their own mouths.

This is what is meant by "trick". It causes the "audience" to examine themselves.

coyote infinity

jaime longoria

Posts: 1,161
Registered: Oct 7, 2002

Re: Coyote Art
Posted: Dec 3, 2004 11:02 AM

Speaking to the Great Silence, I find myself wondering if my life has not been a waste these last five years.

And then I touch one of my shovels.

It takes unusual courage to champion a cause, but often times it is not that that drives us. It is the truth in our hearts.

Today I make myself an artist from Minnesota. I do that by adding the signature to my name "Chicano De Minnesota".

It appears that there are no other Chicano Artists in Minnesota.

This does make my life easy. I get to define and qualify Chicano Art as it is made in Minnesota.

So watch me dance here by myself!!

Back to the studio!

Jimmy Longoria
Chicano Artist De Minnesota

Message was edited by: jaime longoria at Dec 3, 2004 4:35 PM

Bob Schulz

Posts: 416
From: Brooklyn Park, MN
Registered: Aug 15, 2003

Re: Coyote Art
Posted: Dec 5, 2004 9:24 PM

Can you imagine this professor, after extolling the virtue of the Port Huron Statement, admits to not knowing of F.A. Hayek. And doesn't blink, oblivious to what he has just admitted. The problem is that he has spent his entire life in school.

Lauren DeSteno

Posts: 1,520
From: Minneapolis, MN
Registered: Oct 19, 2001

Re: Coyote Art
Posted: Dec 11, 2004 7:49 PM

Oh goodness, Bob. I hardly took Edmundson's comment that way. There is *so *much *literature out there a person can't possibly read or know about all of it.

And actually, I'm always quite impressed when a scholar has the presence and humility to admit that he *doesn't know about a work - instead of feigning familiarity in order to save face.

Bob Schulz

Posts: 416
From: Brooklyn Park, MN
Registered: Aug 15, 2003

Re: Coyote Art
Posted: Dec 12, 2004 11:15 PM

Hi Lauren, actually, as I remember it, the professor said he neither knew of Hayek nor of his work. And I would conclude that he likewise knows nothing of von Mises' treatise in 1922 debunking Lenin's great Bolshevik socialist experiment, correctly predicting its collapse. I would further conclude that if a man advocating from the Left knows nothing of von Mises' protege, then he knows nothing of the economic pratfalls of state run economies. And the crime of all this comes to nothing except that professors "educate" others sitting before them, and these automatons then go forth imparting this crap to impressionable 17 year old art students, which later gets hung on a wall as puerile criticism of US foreign policy, which in turn makes other hoary headed professors beam with confidence that the permanent revolution is still a possibility.

If Robert Owen had succeeded then I too would be a true believer. But the history that is avoided like the plague within the academy stands on the side of pragmatic condemnation of the economic ideology of the Left. And anyone that would care to examine said history would come to the same conclusion. Sadly the academy is an institution of education in euphemism only.

And I, a fool and knave, a part of the great unwashed "stupid" Americans, the slant-headed, V-8 drivin racists, was somehow able to find these original sources censored today from the reading lists of august centers of "learning".

Are you, for instance, aware that socialism was experimented with extensively? Are you aware of what happened in India in the 20th century? Or England? Economically? And the lessons that all should have learned? Including those of us most educated, professors? It is shameful, absolutely shameful that anyone, much less an academic, could comment on socio-political postmodern events in a vacuum of the history underlying said theories and their result.

It would be analogous to a mechanic installing a set of valve stem guide seals on a Chebby backwards while insisting that it will work, knowing that he has already tried doing it backwards several times over a period of a hundred years, and the oil still leaks out through the exhaust valves. But what the hell, Marx said it will work, he believes that "justice" will be served, and so in they go, backwards, one more time, and a 100 million more drops of oil shoot past the valve stems.

And actually, it matters little, except that it does, when you see how artists approach the political. Wasn't it Lucy Lippard who said "all art is political"? And if that is so, then "art" has missed much. (irregardless of the aforementioned six artists, with more to follow)

jaime longoria

Posts: 1,161
Registered: Oct 7, 2002

Re: Coyote Art
Posted: Dec 13, 2004 7:56 AM

> I don't care what anyone says, you're still a coyote.
> Remember, lead with your chin, I'm still breathing,
> and it's only art. And, "Deserve's got nuthin to do
> with it." (Wm. Munny)

Thank you Bob. But it is the Coyote way to slip the punches and be where the attack is not.

>
> I like being stupid, in fact, it clarifies the field.

"...,Stupid is as Stupid does,.." so says a great sage of our era. But you are farther away from stupid than many who sit in self imposed silence and curse the wind "the other form of the Coyote".

> It's what's not said in response that shows the
> weakness of your opposition.

How very true this is. It is tragic that in this piece I am showing to the "world" how lame and cowardly are the Artists of Minnesota. ( I send out emails to other performance artists across the www, who are the sudden swells in guests that we see after I have launched a pointed piece.

In time Minnesota Artists will realize how this little venue is really a powerful "window" into our community.
>
> This evening, watching the final CSPAN Booknotes
> episode, I was once again stunned when a certain
> Professor Mark Edmundson, author of the book, Why
> Read, replied, when offered a beautiful quotation
> from Friedrich Hayek's, The Road to Serfdom, "I never
> heard of it, I'll have to make note of it."
>
> Can you imagine this professor, after extolling the
> virtue of the Port Huron Statement, admits to not
> knowing of F.A. Hayek. And doesn't blink, oblivious
> to what he has just admitted. The problem is that he
> has spent his entire life in school. He doesn't know
> a shovel from his ass. Or, for that matter, Hayek
> from Lenin. Not that it matters, (except that it so
> desperately does), artists uniformly fall into this
> same vapor with no risk taken while much being
> perceived.

Now you have put your finger on real stupidity!!

A toast my friend for our two Senators, Dayton (D) and
Coleman (D>R) for standing up to the President and opposing the dishonest canidate for one of the most powerful position any civilization has ever seen!

Jimmy Longoria Chicano Artist De Minnesota

Bob Schulz

Posts: 416
From: Brooklyn Park, MN
Registered: Aug 15, 2003

Re: Coyote Art
Posted: Dec 14, 2004 11:53 PM

It is possible that

Bob Schulz

Posts: 416
From: Brooklyn Park, MN
Registered: Aug 15, 2003

Re: Coyote Art
Posted: Dec 16, 2004 2:06 PM

And Lauren, I would further say, that the imagined virtues of the Port Huron Statement were extolled by Edmundson. This scrap of crap posing as the "peoples" declaration of revolution is in the professor's memory bank, but the refutation of said statement, written in 1922, which would have saved a hundred million murdered civilians throughout the world, somehow, was passed over during his illustrious career in the esteemed halls of ivy.

Once again, the damage done to Western Civilization is inestimable. And what is even more incomprehensible is the damage done to the minds of artists, those among us, who seem to be most impressionable in the arena of economics and socio-political thought. Goodness, what are we to do? Educated people merely shrug and move on to common wet dreams or move on dot orgasm. Where's that Rousseau when we need him? Or Nietzsche? Or Heidegger? Well, their specters are in the academy teaching our children of nihilism and such related pathologies.

On the radio today, while making my rounds, I heard of a study done in Germany where 6 out of 10 Germans, when asked of Dachau, did not know. Many Japanese today believe that the great evil of WWII was the US dropping two atomic bombs! Incredible! Many Americans, those who have heard of Vietnam, think the US invaded Vietnam and wantonly started a war with peasants! Again, incredible. There are crackpot self-appointed intellectuals who, in front of a TV cameras, straight faced, say that the US is an imperial power seeking to steal the world's resources and impoverish the proletariat. Again, incredible. This is what the academy offers as education. The Lunatic People's History.

Sam Spiczka

Posts: 1,671
From: Sartell, MN
Registered: Jul 20, 2001

Re: Coyote Art
Posted: Dec 16, 2004 11:47 PM

I think you'd like The Big Lebowski, Bob. Ever seen it?

And yes, Nietzsche rules. But of course, it's much more complex than all that. For him, Christianity was an example of nihilism. And the truly noble in spirit demonstrated benevolence out of strength, the petty and weak being vindictive and prone to violence.

The Kaufman translation of The Gay Science is a truly profound and beautiful book.

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