The Ask Chuleta: Contemporary Art series was a suite of videos dedicated to “bridging gaps and building communities” between the “white box and people like you and me”.
In 2005, I created the Chuleta persona for the Wild Girls exhibition at Exit art. This was an extension of my Wepa Woman comic strip style mural series. Through this work I developed the Ask Chuleta: Contemporary Art video series.
In the guise of my alter ego, Chuleta, a sassy, no-nonsense NuyoRican art enthusiast became my way of calling out biases of both the art world as well as my own people by becoming a sort of urban art translator, conduit, culture critic, interceptor and interrogator. It was a wild experiment that predates current YouTube styling and confessional style video format designed to breach the art world and reach out beyond the confines of the "white cube" to talk to anyone that wanted to listen.
The Ask Chuleta: Contemporary Art series has been exhibited internationally, translated into many languages and been included in such notable venues as Manifesta 8 Biennial , ICP's Project 35 among many others and reviewed in the New York Times, ArtNews, and many other international publications.
Chuleta has made guest appearances alongside Skittlez Ortiz's "Shit Spanish Girls Say 2", "Cessa And Chuleta Take Orchard Beach”, “Cessa and Chuleta Talk Gringo Lingo”, “Cessa and Chuleta Take the Puerto Rican Day Parade”.
Chuleta has also been featured host of the Elia Alba Supper Club dinner series. To watch more of Wanda’s performances, subscribe and visit her YouTube channel.