Freestyle Fridays | April 10
Today we look back at programming on Radio Regeneración, produced as part of the exhibition Regeneración: Three Generations of Revolutionary Ideology (September 29, 2018 - March 23, 2019) at the Vincent Price Art Museum, examining the transnational exchange and circulation of revolutionary and activist ideas across generations, and between the U.S. and Mexico, from the site of Los Angeles. This project looks at three instances of political and cultural production, each called Regeneración, and the interconnected ideas and relationships between them. Radio programming includes an oral history series, historic audio programs broadcast on Regeneración’s Radio Clandestina in the 1990s, and new shows with DJs and guest speakers. Episodes were produced for public research and educational purposes.
These two episodes feature original radio mixes that aired in 1999, as well as a panel discussion about cultural and community placemaking that took place in conjunction with the exhibition. The 1990s saw the emergence of important cultural spaces including Regeneración/Popular Resource Center, Peace and Justice Center, Troy Café, and Flor y Canto, among others. This discussion centers on the role of these spaces, and the collective strategies they shared expressed through politics, art, and organizing.
Episode 13
BLAKHOLE, first aired on May 14, 1999 & Creating Cultural Space in the 1990s, Panel Discussion, October 13, 2018
Episode 14
INTOXICA with Stan Misraje & BLAKHOLE, first aired July 16, 1999
Voices from Regeneración / Popular Resource Center of Highland Park (1993–99)
“It seems an elusive task to enter the spaces of memory to recall our collective awakening—nuestro despertar —a moment in time, in the mid-1990s, when hundreds of young people of color, artists, activists, anarchists, feminists, indigenistas, and immigrants came together to dream about making a different world. Regeneración, a funky old brick warehouse in Highland Park, was the hive, the central place where we flocked and found a home for nuestro despertar not only to be but to flourish inside the cultural and political imaginations that converged during that time."
– Aida Salazar and Patricia Valencia, from the exhibition catalog essay A Brief History of Regeneración; or, the Elusive Remembering of Regeneración (2018).
Regeneración: Three Generations of Revolutionary Ideology