CPPM GUEST ARTIST
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Balitronica Gómez
Sarah Stolar
La Pochanostra
Workshop
17.03-28.03.2025
Open class
28.03.2022 19:00
EMTA black box
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and artistic director of the performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Born in Mexico City, he moved to the US in 1978, and since 1995, his three homes have been San Francisco, Mexico City and the “road”. His performance work and 21 books have contributed to the debates on cultural, generational, and gender diversity, border culture and North-South relations. His artwork has been presented at over one thousand venues across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Russia, South Africa and Australia. A MacArthur Fellow, USA Artists Fellow, and a Bessie, Guggenheim, and American Book Award recipient, 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). Gómez-Peña is currently a Patron for the London-based Live Art Development Agency, and a Senior Fellow in the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics.
Balitronica Gómez
Balitronica Gómez, (US/Mexico) Senior Core Member, Performance Artist, Poet, Radical Pedagogue, Director of Media, Ritual Occultist, Hereditary Witch, Cabot Priestess. Balitronica is a cyborg-feminist poet, performance artist, radical pedagogue, ritual occultist, hereditary witch, and Cabot Priestess. Born and raised on the border of San Diego/Tijuana by a family of multigenerational occultists, she has a background in classical theatre and Victorian Literature and holds an MFA in Poetry & Writing from Mills College. Her performance work has been largely influenced by her time spent living in a 17th Century Catholic Convent in Paris with a Dominican Order of Nuns. Since joining La Pocha Nostra, she has made a full-time performance practice that explores the ideas of ritual psychomagic acts, occult methods of transcendence, and the human body as conduit. She has been touring internationally with Gómez-Peña since 2013 and currently resides between San Francisco, Mexico City, and the San Diego/Tijuana Border. Track her current projects online here.
Sarah Stolar
Sarah Stolar (b. 1974, Chicago, IL; she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico, whose practice spans painting, drawing, film, video, installation, and performance, rooted in a 30-year exploration of the feminine psychological narrative that examines themes of loss of innocence, sexuality, power, death, spirituality, and identity; descended from 19th-century German painter Adolph von Menzel and Rookwood Pottery master John von Menzel, she grew up in her mother’s Schain Studios in Cincinnati, earned a BFA in Painting from the Art Academy of Cincinnati and an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute, and has exhibited nationally and internationally, including solo shows at the New Mexico Museum of Art, Harwood Museum of Art, BGMoCA, and the School of Visual Art in New York City; she is also an internationally award-winning filmmaker—receiving Best Experimental Film at Synergy Film Festival in New York and a finalist nod for the Andy Warhol Award—and has collaborated with such notable artists as Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Annie Sprinkle, Beth Stephens, and Linda Mary Montano, including shows at documenta 14 and the 53rd Venice Biennale; her large-scale figurative paintings have recently portrayed Balitrónica Gómez of La Pocha Nostra, Jessica Blinkhorn, and Lucy Lippard; featured in media outlets like Hyperallergic, The Nation, Fifty Feminist States, and CNN Style, Stolar has been an educator for over fifteen years and currently serves as Chair of the Department of Fine Arts, Film, and Digital Media at the University of New Mexico – Taos.
La Pochanostra (USA)
Founded in 1993 in Los Angeles, <strong>La Pocha Nostra (LPN)</strong> is Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s ultimate and most long-standing project.
LPN is a transdisciplinary arts organization & non-profit that provides a support network and forum for artists of various disciplines, generations, gender complexities and ethnic backgrounds. It is devoted to erasing the borders between art and politics, art practice and theory, artist and spectator. For 25+ years, LPN has intensely focused on the notion of collaboration across national borders, race, gender and generations as an act of radical citizen diplomacy and as a means to create “ephemeral communities” of rebel artists.
LPN’s performance work mixes experimental aesthetics, activist politics, Spanglish humor and audience participation to create a “total experience” for both live and online audience member/reader/viewer. Continually developing multi-centric narratives and large-scale performance projects from a border perspective, LPN creates what critics have termed “Chicano cyber-punk performances,” and “ethno-techno art.” In the work, cultural borders have moved to the center while the alleged mainstream is pushed to the margins and treated as exotic and unfamiliar, placing the audience members and readers in the position of “foreigners” or “minorities.”
Next performances
- 28.03.2025 at 19:00, AVATUD TUND - EMTA blackbox