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StrangeTango.com is a multilayered art installation in cyberspace…the documentation of a life in three iterations: as a film treatment, a book, a blog.
“What remains as documentation of a life?”
Strange Tango haunts the boundaries of digital streams and visceral storytelling, where pixels and dreams flow together.
Video, reportage, and nonlinear narrative meld in captured moments from the life of A. D. Tejada, artist - traveler - citizen of the world.
Life is a strange tango...
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StrangeTango.com: Life as Art is the personal website/blog of A. D. Tejada, a Filipino American feminist and first generation immigrant in America’s heartland who is Ivy League-educated, has lived in 7 major American cities, and has traveled through 35 countries on 5 continents.
At the nexus of art, culture, and politics, StrangeTango.com presents an innovative vision [...]
“The next step is sharing her vision of cyberspace as the next frontier in the literary arts. Says Tejada, “For my collaborators and me, Strange Tango is a labor of love and a global platform for original and passionate creativity.’” ~Raphael Seligmann
Welcome to the world of Strange Tango. Conceptually speaking, the blog before you is an [...]
An early ambition was that I might enter politics or academia, or become a diplomat/lawyer/corporate executive with an international career. But my perspective has always been one of multiplicity: it felt more natural to me to see the interrelatedness of humanity than to become an expert specializing in a fragment of the universe. I wanted [...]
To answer your questions about the strange tango that informs the primary relationship/love story in the work:
Artist and Muse. I feel that people who are creative, receptive, are open to inspiration from various dimensions and influences. The artist is a channel, a conduit, a seer/mystic/psychic, if you will…who sees the future, reads souls, intuits the [...]
An almost vertical incline leads to the temple, El Castillo, in Chichén Itzá, Mexico.
Even the unwitting taking of a single pebble will cause an endless amount of trouble. Unknowingly, the pebble is a “touchstone,” a portal to vivid dreams, the ancient world, the collective subconscious.
(I can almost hear the reader saying, “Don’t pluck the [...]
1) epistolary novella = internal dramatic soliloquy = catharsis
2) plot: there is no plot (Strange Tango is a visceral experience that transports you simply through my love of words…nonlinear, compact, dense, encoded.)
3) encoded: computer code = the coded constructs of poetry and poetics = nonlinear, compact, dense
4) the literary blurb for Strange Tango:
“Strange Tango may [...]
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