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Guillermo Gómez-Peña, the performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue, and artistic director of the troupe La Pocha Nostra brings us a new solo performance keynote.
Created in lockdown, this performance combines theory, poetry, and performance texts in the wake of the Trump administration and under the throes of multiple pandemics. Throughout his life, Gómez-Peña has been working in audio art across multiple genres, from poetic journalism and Spanglish spoken word to radical storytelling. This ongoing performance will present samples of previous work and brand-new material written and created during lockdown.
Guillermo Gómez-Peña broadcasting from his home zoom studio, Mission District, San Francisco, CA, 2020. | Photo: Zen Cohen
Guillermo Gómez-Peña was born in Mexico City and moved to the US in 1978. Since 1995, his two homes have been San Francisco and Mexico City. His performance work and 21 books have contributed to the debates on cultural, generational, and gender diversity as well as border culture and North-South relations. His artwork has been presented at over 1,000 venues across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Russia, South Africa and Australia. A MacArthur Fellow, USA Artists Fellow, and winner of a Bessie, Guggenheim, and American Book Award, he is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines in the US, Mexico, and Europe and a contributing editor to The Drama Review (NYU-MIT), the Performance Art Week Journal of the Venice Biennale, and emisférica, the publication of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (NYU).
Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Migration, Mobility, and Immobility Project; Center for Latin American Studies; Office of Diversity and Inclusion; Department of Dance; and the Wexner Center for the Arts.
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña
