Traction: Art Talk Featuring a Performance Guillermo Gómez-Peña

The Institute of the Arts and Sciences at UC Santa Cruz, in collaboration with E.A.R.T.H.L.A.B. and the UCSC Art Department, invite you to Traction: Art Talk featuring a performance Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Gómez-Peña (US/Mexico) is an internationally renowned performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue, and director of the performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. For Traction: Art Talk, Gómez Peña will perform The Most (un) Documented Mexican Artist, an enhanced solo work with cameos by Balitronica Gomez and Saula Garcia Lopez.

The Most (un) Documented Mexican Artist is Gómez-Peña's latest solo work. For the performance, the artist draws from his 30-year-old living archive and combines new and classic performance material to present a unique perspective on the immediate future of the Americas. His self-styled “imaginary activism” invokes performance art as a form of radical democracy and citizenship.

This event is FREE and open to the public. Parking is available in the Arts lot ($5 at the on-site pay station).