Join Gómez-Peña & La Pocha Nostra for a fully immersive and performative activation of the Casa Museo exhibition for an afternoon of interactive live imagery, music, poetry, and calls for action by the audience. This event will include content that will may not be suitable for children.
Gómez-Peña returns to Chicago for his first LIVE and in-person performance since lockdown began. This new solo performance monologue features new writing responding to the multiple pandemias including rantings and confessions. Featuring a cameo by conceptual artist, performer and storyteller Robin LaVerne Wilson aka DRAGONFLY. Mex Files LIVE: The Pandemia Chronicles is presented by Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in partnership with School of Theater and Music, College of Architecture, Design and the Arts, University of Illinois Chicago. This public performance is a part of Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40 .
This afternoon intensive workshop provides participants with an introduction to La Pocha Nostra’s signature pedagogical tools that have been at the forefront of hemispheric performance and politics for over 30 years. La Pocha Nostra, Gómez-Peña’s performance art troupe and organization, has developed a pedagogical model that functions both as an act of citizen diplomacy and as a means to create "ephemeral communities" of diverse participants.Limited enrollment. A special invitation to students at The University of Illinois Chicago and The University of Chicago.
Join La Pocha Nostra core troupe members for the virtual Chicago premiere of The San Francisco Living Archives of La Pocha Nostra. Always inciting participation, La Pocha Nostra will present a performative introduction by core members Paloma Martinez-Cruz and Saula Garcia Lopez who will also create a collective poetic action after the film to help kick off the Chicago residency. Prepare to jam with La Pocha Nostra’s pulses and prompts!
This live radio keynote from Guillermo Gómez-Peña challenges contemporary art museum practices and calls for an open discussion regarding radical restructuring from within. The keynote is part of Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Audio Art & Strange Poetry from the US/Mexico Border, a year-long series of experimental audio performances presented by Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, Public Media Institute, and the University of Chicago’s Smart Museum of Art as part of Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40.
