"A new solo performance keynote by Gómez-Peña in lockdown" combines theory, poetry and performance texts in the wake of the Trump administration under the throws of multiple pandemias. Throughout his life, GGP has been working in audio art across multiple genres, from poetic journalism to Spanglish spoken word, radical storytelling. This ongoing performance will present samples of previous work and new material written created during lock-down.
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 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, border culture and North-South relations. His art work 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 winner, 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).
Learn more about La Pocha Nostra Workshop on Feb. 13.
Please contact Paloma Martinez-Cruz at martinez-cruz.2@osu.edu with your questions.
Co-sponsors: Migration, Mobility, and Immobility Project; Wexner Center for the Arts; Center for Latin American Studies; Office of Diversity and Inclusion; Department of Dance
