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THE AMERICAN DREAM? The American Dream? I think you have it all wrong my friend. A standard to what making it in the land of the free is. The American Dream is not what you are led to believe. Big house White picket fence Sports car The American Dream is not so obvious. The idea that is being sold through TV screens. Gossip Girl 90210 Sex and the City The glamour of the high life. But is the American Dream what we are led to believe? The American Dream? Think hard, why do you come here to the supposed land of the free? Opportunities for higher education…at a price. The chance to have a degree. Even though Corporate America will always judge you based on your skin, language and religion. You will always be Mexican, Bengali, Puerto Rican, Dominican, and Honduran. But having a degree will soften the blow. The journey to reach the American Dream will be difficult. So how do you know when you have reached your destination? When the blood, sweat and tears have paid off. When you have the… Big house? White picket fence? Sports car? No. The American Dream is reached when… When you bought your own apartment? When you built a better life for your family? The American Dream, my friend, Is achieved as long as you’re Happy. 7
-Amber Hutchinson
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Most of us are never satisfied with our state of presence. Most of the time we are in places where we wish we could be elsewhere. Like when we are on the subway or on the bus and wished we had the power to teleport home or simply be somewhere else. We never really appreciate where we are and we rarely stop ourselves to realize that our life is passing by every minute, every second. However, there are instances or specks of light during our lifetime in which we truly live within our bodies without feeling this conflict between the place and our minds. In my eighteen years of living, I have a place where I’m certain my mind and body can be present simultaneously. It is small, but beautiful. Not necessarily rich in wealth, but rich in culture. It is located in between Colombia and Peru and bordered by the Pacific Ocean. My secret jewel in South America, my home, is Ecuador. I stay in the capital of Quito, a valley surrounded by mountains at 9,350 feet (2,850 meters) above sea level. The elevation makes it hard to breathe if you are not used to it, but your body will learn to adjust accordingly. Once there you will feel different, as if time slowed down just for you, so that your days last longer and you can enjoy them fully.
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On the streets, you see vendors who sell fruit that have just been picked and one can smell the freshness just passing by. The prices are particularly low for how good the quality and flavor of the fruits are. Most people, however, don’t buy all their fruit in these casetas de frutas, but rather choose to go to el Mercado to get even lower prices and greater amount of goods. There you can find everything from school uniforms to live chickens, it is its own world. I was once even persuaded by one of the merchants to buy a baby chick as a pet for seventy-five cents. The city is also filled with places to eat and visit in every corner. My favorite place in particular is a zone called La Ronda. La Ronda is right in the center of Quito, the Old Town, with restaurants that are inside old houses serving Ecuador’s typical foods. You can find crispy empanadas (deep-fried dough disks filled with cheese), con morocho (hot white corn drink), the frequently talked about cuy (guinea pig), seco de chivo (goat stew), fritada (deep fried pork), chicharrón con mote (fried pork skin with white corn) and fresh fruit juice to accompany your meal. My favorite hot plate is caldo de pata, which is a soup with white corn (mote) and cow’s feet (pata). The meat is chewy and has the quality of gelatin, the taste is dreamy and the soup is very creamy.
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Besides the immense food diversity there is a great wealth of scenery. Ecuador is divided into four sections: el oriente, la sierra, la costa and Las Islas Galapagos. I wanted to experience both the force of the water and elevation, so I directed myself to La Laguna Quilotoa, a water filled caldera (crater) formed by the explosion of a volcano. The Crater Lake feels surreal as if you are above the world giving off natural energy from itself while encouraging you to walk down to its waters to experience the place as a whole. You feel as if you’ve been transported to a different world where the lines between reality and imagination are blurred. The water from the crater posses the energy from the volcano that collapsed and you can feel the energy the instant your hand makes contact with the water. The people from Quilotoa have created a transportation system using mulas and burros (mules and donkeys) to shuttle people up the crater for eight dollars. I was frightened to ride on them so I hiked up for an hour and a half instead. I often dream of the opportunity to feel out of this world, as most of us will experience at one point in our lives. I’ve realized that we all seek for this, but only in these special instances are we able to endure this feeling. Life is full of inconsistent sensations, but I searched and found my place of personal fulfillment in Ecuador. Back in New York, I remind myself that I cannot have this pleasure forever, but I must develop other distinct satisfactions as I venture forward. Here, I’m brought back to reality with a better sense of myself and to move forward with a new outlook on life as I travel underground in the subways and wander through the busy streets.
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Peggy Guggenheim buttons
Incense
Guggenheim erasers Italian instruction manual for Final Fantasy X video game Plastic bracelets
Design magazines Letter Guggenheim pencils 76
Artist brush
Yo-Yo Pasta
Milk carton
Biscotti
Tales of Terror by Edgar Alllan Poe
VENICE TO THE BRONX
Postcard designed by Daniele De Toni
Venice public transportation ticket Negatives from landscape photographs
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Songs, letters, poems
With love...
NY Daily News Bronx Museum Collections Remix catalogue
Little Italy San Gennaro Festival cup
Teen Council MuseZines NY Yankees hat NY Yankees pen
Boston Red Sox hat 78
Bronx Museum pencils
Vegan cookie
Candies
Bronx Museum poster
Teen Council artist interview series DVDs Buttons about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911 MTV pin
Admission button from the Museum of Art and Design
Metro map NY coffee cup
$2 bill
MetroCards
Powerball lotto79ticket
Movie ticket
Bronx Museum bag designed by middle school students from the organization Casita Maria
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INDEX
Bronx Team Amber Hutchinson Ashley Vega D’Asia Lee Deija West Diana Vega Gertrudiz Mendoza Henry Brice Melissa de la Torre Mohammad Hossain Nusrat Bhuiyan Odalis Espinoza Yrma Batista
Amber Hutchinson, 7, 25, 28-29 Ashley Vega, 10-11, 58-59, 88-89 D’Asia Lee, 6, 64 Deija West, 20-21, 73 Diana Vega, 4, 22-23, 54-55, 67, 71 Gertrudiz Mendoza, 83-85 Henry Brice, 37-43 Melissa de la Torre, 30-34 Mohammad Hossain, 47, 49 Nusrat Bhuiyan, 68 Odalis Espinoza, 3, 18-19, 44, 74 Yrma Batista, 26-27, 56-57 Alice Visentin, 50-51, 60-61 Allegra Bortoli, 53 Chiara Vian, 48, 63, 65, 75 Daniele De Toni, 2, 5, 8-9, 16-17, 24, 90-91 Elena Scroccaro, 72, 80, 82 Francesco Boccato Rorato, 35, 70, 92 Mandalina Antal, 52, 80-81 Margherita Calza, 45, 86, 93 Melissa Vizza, 62 Rhitu Miah, 12-13, 36, 46 Silvia Bellemo 69, 87
Staff: Hatuey Ramos-Fermín Hannie Chia Raphael Miles Venice Team Students from the Liceo Michelangelo Guggenheim
Cover work by Mandalina Antal
Musezine 18 was produced as part of an exchange between The Bronx Museum of the Arts’ Teen Council and teens from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. Created in 2005, the Bronx Museum Teen Council makes contemporary art and culture accessible to urban youth through a series of different platforms. Structured around the production of MuseCasts, video productions available on YouTube and MuseZines, a small publication, Teen Council is comprised of a group of high school students working closely with instructors in the Museum’s Media Lab.
Alice Penzo Alice Visentin Allegra Bortoli Chiara Vian Daniele De Toni Elena Scroccaro Francesco Boccato Rorato Jetmire Bozzato Bitiqi Lucrezia Vivaldi Mandalina Antal Margherita Calza Melissa Vizza Rhitu Miah Samanta Clark Silvia Bellemo Solidea Cecchinato Valentina Carriero Staff: Chiara Barbieri Elena Minarelli Anita Todesco Dario Pinton Valeria Burgio Diana Córdoba Barrios Valerio Vivian Manuela Lopez Massimo Daissè
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Musezine # 18 Spring 2013 Sarah Sze: Triple Point, the official U.S. representation at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, is organized by The Bronx Museum of the Arts and is presented by the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State. The exhibition is produced with the collaboration of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice (Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York). Lead foundation support has been provided by the Ford Foundation, with additional support from Altour and the U.S in Venice 2013: International Advisors and Biennale Committee Members.
Musezine 18 was produced as part of the BronxVenice Teen Exchange, an education initiative accompanying Sarah Sze: Triple Point. Special support of digital engagement and education programs is provided by Bloomberg.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts’ Education Programs are made possible with support from Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation; The Fridolin Charitable Trust; The David Rockefeller Fund; Simón Bolívar Foundation; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature; and New York Yankees Community Council.
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