The Ona Legends, Leyendas Onas, De Tierra Del Fuego, El Fin De Un Mundo Timeline

The Ona Legends, Leyendas Onas, De Tierra Del Fuego, El Fin De Un Mundo,.........as much as true facts as our own story, Topic: Toy Museum, Comic Story Researched and Worked 2001 to 2004 The Buenos Aires Toy Museum. The End of the World. The Land of Fire Our creative team at The Buenos Aires Toy Musuem is currently developing the museum’s very own comic strip story. Featuring a unique story line of marvel, emotion, adventure and great challenges, our very own comic is being customize designed for us by a team of artists, painters and literature experts… The concept and interest in developing this project began as a general and vague idea a couple of years ago. We had been working a while in research projects related to the history of toys and games in Argentina, when we discovered a very interesting and appealing facet of games in general. We realized that these games and toys were representations of a determined state of culture, history and personal beliefs that thru means of objects, writings and popular beliefs, became real and lasting, having –those of quality and whit- a strong impact on society and culture. We then came up with the idea of creating a multimedia game-toy-concept that would become a trademark of ourselves, our time, our ideas, as well as our hopes and dreams. The idea of creating a story, narrating a fictionalized version of our thoughts, wishes and dreams was tied from the very beginning to our history as individuals as well as a nation. The idea was also routed on a small tribe known as “Ona Indians” an ethnic group from Tierra del Fuego, South America, the Land of Fire in the Argentine Patagonia, a strong and amazing culture that eventually was purposely vanished and up rooted from our history by the Spaniards and the early local half breeds of the local government… This ethnic group, their believes and knowledge, will be playing an important role with the main character coming from their folk history into our story, bringing then the intention of reflecting us in our complexity, our syncretism culture. Together with the strips -the narration- we’ve created miniature sculptures of the characters, artwork of the scenery and concept, and an incipient game concept of adventure narration… The story begins in Buenos Aires, with a man writing a story, the way we do right now. A momentary lapse of reason will take him to a faraway fiction like - though very real- land of adventures and life experiences… Our comic is undergoing a rich and interesting production process, where creative and ingenious individuals taking part in this project are all chipping in with their ideas, passion and craftsmanship to create an outstanding final product. Our playful artistic creation will then have a triple meaning from the start, it’s going to be a story, a work of art and a game, all at the same time. You, our very important front row readers will have the best possible access to our comic and art. We’ll be posting on our website permanent entrees of advances on the story, the art and the game development.

Created by dipity on Jan 14, 2009

Last updated: 10/20/10 at 12:48 AM

Tags: ona story tribe history toy museum art comics buenos aires argentina tieera del fuego

Esta historia es el producto de un proyecto social y colectivo que comenzamos a desarrollar un tiempo atrás. Comenzó hace un par de años a raíz de una idea que rondaba nuestra propia práctica; producto del trabajo de investigación que venimos realizando sobre la historia de juegos y juguetes argentinos. A partir de nuestro propio trabajo comenzamos a descubrir una amplia gama de improntas culturales y sociales en la producción de juguetes y juegos. Pronto nos dimos cuenta que se trataba de representaciones culturales de gran importancia, mucho más de lo que hubiéramos podido imaginar. En tanto se trata de reflejos objetivados de nuestro presente, pasado… objetos ideologizados de gran valor semiótico y semántico. Asi, frente a tamaño descubrimiento, se nos ocurrió crear un juguete-juego-conceptual de características multimediales, que de alguna manera pudiera reflejar nuestro tiempo, nuestras ideas, nuestros sueños y esperanzas. La historia narra de manera ficcionalizada una de nuestras posibles visiones del mundo. Contempla de manera profunda nuestros pensamientos e ideas del mundo, y busca por medio de la palabra, el arte y la expresión cultural amplia dar cuenta de este presente. Los Onas de la Patagonia Argentina, de la región ligada a Tierra del Fuego siempre han tenido un atractivo particular en mi propia historia –Argentina y personal- y como tal, se fue gestando como interlocutor imaginario de una historia a narrar. Ellos mismos, como referentes reales de un mundo complejo, cambiante y que se niega a cumplir designios absurdos de modernidad infundada han sido gestores de su propia historia. Por su valentía y coraje, aparecen ante mi mirada como exponentes claros de una cultura rica y profunda. La historia es narrada con auxilio de todo tipo de expresiones culturales y artísticas que pueden aportar a gestar un cuadro complejo, rico en sensaciones, personajes y escenarios. La historia comienza en Buenos Aires, con un hombre común escribiendo una historia… tal como estoy haciendo en este momento, cuando en un brevisimo instante su realidad muta, es como si se abriera un mundo espacio-temporal alternativo---- Aparece de repente en tierras lejanas, y allí comenzara a transitar un camino de aventuras y experiencias vitales realmente significativas. Espero disfruten estas, las primeras de muchas entregas en las que iremos narrando, esta, nuestra historia. Bob Frassinetti & The Buenos Aires Toy Team.

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