Fulana is a media collective in that emerged as the vision-fusion of four New York-based Latina artists joined by a love of video and satire, a critical gaze, a bilingual sense of humor and —most of all— a shared desire to create art within a collaborative onda. So we put our Spanglish brains together, drank some coffee, and founded Fulana in 2000. Through parody and satire, we explore themes that are relevant to Latino cultures in the U.S., delving into the nuances that bind our experiences, experimenting with strategies to make visible what we're so often made to read between the lines. Our work, whose aesthetic ranges from cable-access kitsch to Telemundo tinsel, consists mainly of mock television commercials, music videos and print advertisements. Focusing on popular culture, we respond to the ways ideologies and identities are marketed to us, sold to us—and how we sell ourselves—through the mass media. Check out our projects and join the dialogue on MySpace, YouTube, Facebook or Funny or Die. Fulana is also featured in the Hemispheric Institute's Digital Video Library.
(from
left to right)
lisandra
ramos-grullón, a dominicana from quisqueya heights;
cristina
ibarra, a chicana tejana from el paso;
andrea
thome, a chiletica from madison; and
marlène
ramírez-cancio, a boricua from la isla.