Naomi Rincón-Gallardo

Pirate (Bootleg) Utopias is a fabrication of a mascarade/research process about the accounts of six members associated to JAR (Anti-authoritarian revolutionary Youth for its initials in Spanish),an activist punk collective created in 1993 in Mexico City. The JAR was founded in 1993, aiming to create an organization that could gather together different punk groups in order to march to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the students massacre in October the second of 1968. In 1994, the indigenous Zapatista Uprising, and their ideas about autonomy were crucial for their ideological training.

Pirate (Bootleg) Utopias is a musical video inspired by the interviews with members of the punk collective. The project involved different degrees of participation and collaboration from different individuals and collectivities. Each of them joined the JAR by different interests, affects and expectations, not necessarily reconcilable with one another and even contradictory and conflictive.