Sicalyptic editatone #21F

One editatone The editing marathon is an activity in which several people come together to create new content on Wikipedia, reduce the gender gap of the free encyclopedia and make visible the absence of content about women and their historical and cultural contributions. To this end, from Wikisphere, in coordination with Medialab Slaughterhouse (@medialabmatadero), we invite you to participate in a editatona dedicated to the sicalípticas, fundamental artists of the Spanish popular culture of the beginning of the 20th century.

The term sicalyptic was used to name interpreters linked to the cuplé and the culture of varietés who occupied stages, magazines and urban spaces throughout Spain. Cupletistas, choristers and tiples were central figures of the cultural life of the time and actively participated in the construction of modernity. Through cuplé and sicalipsis, languages based on insinuation and double meaning, influenced imaginaries about gender, sexuality and urban life., dialoguing with artistic and literary movements of his time. Despite their relevance, many of these women have been left out of historical accounts.

This editatone proposes recover and make visible the sicalyptics in Wikipedia, creating, translating and improving articles about these artists and their cultural context, incorporating women who were protagonists of their time and who today are still absent from free knowledge.

We carry out this activity in collaboration with the group Art+Feminism (@artandfem), an international community working to bridging information gaps on gender, feminism and the arts on the Internet, starting with Wikipedia.

On this occasion we will have Gloria G. Duran@gloriagduran), Madrid, PhD in Fine Arts, researcher, teacher and artist. Expert in the relationship between art, public space, urban culture and gender studies.

Develops his career in the academic and cultural field. She is a professor at the University of Salamanca, where she teaches in the area of sculpture, and is part of the teaching team of the Master of Permanent Training in Arts and Artistic Professions UC3M-CBA in Escuela SUR. She has been a professor at the Complutense University of Madrid and has participated in projects and stays in New York, Florence, Oakland, Buenos Aires and Mexico City. In addition, he gives workshops and talks in different cultural and educational spaces of the country.

She is the author of Sicalyptic. The Great Book of Cuple and the Sicalypse, an investigation that examines the relationship between show, gender, sexuality and public space, as well as the role of cupletistas of the early twentieth century in the construction of cultural imaginaries and their presence in Spanish cultural history.