Miguel Braceli: Trigger
Trigger
Trigger is a project aimed at transforming an object of violence into a pedagogical tool and reimagining a gunshot as method of construction. The body is the structure of the weapon; as an object of knowledge, it holds the same possibility as a book.
Biography
Miguel Braceli, a Venezuelan artist and architect, has developed his practice in many fields, including landart, performance, and relational art. He has presented his work in institutional spaces and art biennials throughout Latin America and Europe. He currently resides in the United States and is a Fulbright fellow and graduate student at the Maryland Institute College of Arts.
The DoMystics: (In)terfertilization: Of Word and Flesh
(In)terfertilization: Of Word and Flesh
(In)terfertilization is a durational public performance that explores themes of need and self-actualization, transference of ideas and exchange, and growth. We will construct a series of hearts made of blood and soil, plant new seed/lives, follow their public growth, and allow their hearts to evolve into paradigm-defiant beings. #thedomystics
Biography
The Do-Mystics is a feminist collective created by Monique Blom and Arantxa Araujo, based in NYC, Mexico, and Canada. Their work incorporates the use of new media, performance, and socially engaged art. The collective explores themes through ritual processes of identity, gender, immigration, and domesticity.
Maria Eugenia Chellet: Gift Boxes
Gift Boxes
Gift Boxesis a political cabaret where an elegant madame receives gifts from the most important presidents around the world. She opens and comments on each gift box, using satire, irony, critique, and humor. Through cabaret, she satirizes the political positions of each president. The gifts serve as a metaphor to demystify them.
Biography
Maria Eugenia Chellet is a multidisciplinary visual artist. In her videos, performances, etc., she draws on female archetypes, prototypes, and stereotypes. Her work examines the medium of self portraiture and images in popular culture and mass media.
Erika Bülle Hernández: No One Likes Fat Girls
No One Likes Fat Girls
In Latin America, being fat is the cause of discrimination and violence, especially towards women. A few years ago, one Mexican governor spoke out about pregnant youth, saying, “No one likes fat girls.” His comments elicited outrage. This performance is a response.
Biography
Erika Bülle Hernández (Mexico City) holds a PhD in Arts and Design from the UNAM. She has been working in the field of performance for 30 years.
GRUPO D3 CHOK3: Un-global Diaspora
Un-global Diaspora
We will walk barefoot along a cartography of the globe, marking traces of blood on the routes carried out by migrants seeking refuge around the world. A group of health professionals will extract our blood using blood donation equipment.
Biography
GRUPO D3 CHOK3 (Yeshua David Hinojosa Romero, Omar Matadamas, Esperanza Balderas, Mayumi, Alec, and Orgy PUNK) emerged in Mexico during the #yosoy132 Movement. The group creates and implements artistic techniques as tools for nonviolent political action against governments that practice discrimination and are opposed to sexual and gender diversity. They have presented their performances in festivals in Amsterdam, Canada, Germany, and Thailand.
Xandra Ibarra: Nude Laughing
Nude Laughing
In an endurance-based performance of laughing while nude, Ibarra drags a nylon skin cocoon filled with paradigmatic “white lady accoutrements." She engages the vexed entanglements that racialized subjects have with whiteness and white womanhood, and she embodies the skein of race, negotiating the joys and pains of subjection, abjection, and personhood.
Biography
Xandra Ibarra is an Oakland-based performance artist from the US/Mexico border who sometimes works under the alias of La Chica Boom. Ibarra uses performance, video, and sculpture to address abjection and joy. She has been awarded the Art Matters Grant, NALAC Fund for the Arts, ReGen Fund, the Franklin Furnace Award, and the Queer Art Prize Award.
Roberta Nascimento: In Times of War, ENJOY!
In Times of War, ENJOY!
They want to strip us of our freedoms, rob us of our vitality, take away our achievements, and tame our desires to live and enjoy. The resistance is real, and we are putting our bodies on the line. We are the granddaughters of the witches they could not burn. WE WILL ENJOY AND WE WILL FIGHT!
Biography
Roberta Nascimento is a Brazilian artist-activist, performer, vegan, yoga practitioner, feminist, Gemini, and feline admirer. She holds a BA in Performing Arts. Nascimento draws upone performance, installation, and video in her work, and researches space-time expansion and the use of psychophysical exhaustion as a tool to combat anguish.
Deborah Castillo: The Fraternal Socialist Kiss
The Fraternal Socialist Kiss
The Fraternal Socialist Kiss is a performative action that draws attention to the stereotypes associated with power, which are always present in the history of humankind and without the protagonism of women.
Biography
Deborah Castillo is a Venezuelan multidisciplinary artist living in Oaxaca, Mexico.
L.M. Bogad: COINTELSHOW: A PATRIOT ACT
COINTELSHOW: A PATRIOT ACT
Join Special Agent Christian White on a cheerfully creepy tour of the FBI’s notorious Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO). The federal documents are heavily censored in the name of the Freedom of Information Act. But when Chris takes you beneath the redaction marks, into the haunted underworld that lies beneath, things go horribly, fabulously wrong.
Biography
L.M. Bogad is an author, performer, and professor at UC Davis. His publications include: Tactical Performance; Electoral Guerrilla Theatre (Routledge) and COINTELSHOW (PM Press). His performances include: ECONOMUSIC, ORWELL’S WAR, POSSIBLE PASTS: SANTIAGO 9/11, HAYMARKET, EXIT 11, and A FAIR FIGHT.
DETEXT: Kill the President
Kill the President
Kill The President explores the intersection of dance and military training. Performed by a professional bodyguard and a dancer, this "pas de deux" combines improvisation with drills and maneuvers used by bodyguards during attempted political attacks and escapes.
Biography
DETEXT’s work has been exhibited internationally in museums and galleries, including: MoMA PS1; Museum of Arts and Design MAD in New York; MACBA in Barcelona; CA2M in Madrid; ARTIUM in Vitoria, Spain; and most recently, the Musée de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains MUDAC in Lausanne, Switzerland.