Exhibition Dates: June 19 - July 10 2009
Performance Dates: June 24, July 1 and July 8.
MCCLA Galleries
Wednesday, July 1, 7pm $5MAIZ and NK603: Action(Z)
Performance by: Violeta Luna & Guillermo Galindo
A hybrid collaborative performance between post_Mexican musician and performer gal*in_dog aka Guillermo Galindo, and Mexican post-performance artist Violeta Luna.
In search of a hybrid 21st-century post-Mexican art form that reconciles contradictory concepts such as primal instincts, animism, and mythology with contemporary science and technology, gal*in_dog decided to create an integrated cyber totemic sonic device that works as a conduit between visual and sound that truthfully reflects his hybrid reality.
Violeta Luna's performance work NK 603: Action(Z) has been conceived as a reflection on American genetically modified corn, and its devastating consequences on native corn varieties. These hybrid, engineered seeds, contaminate not only ancient bio-processes in nature, but also ways of life and health of millions in Mexico, other Latin American countries, and around the world.
Exhibition
Visual Poetry is a form of experimental poetry in which the image and the plastic element are predominant. Visual Poetry uses any technique and support that helps it develop as non verbal poetry and constitutes a whole new discipline in the field of experimentation.
Artists: Adriana Diaz, Agneta Falk, Alberto Roblest, Alejandra Rotondi, Alfonso Jaramillo, Anne Carol, Augusto Carrasco, Camilla Newhagen, Camille Holvoet, Cecile Brillet, Charlyn Montiel-Trent, Christians Luna, Claudia Chapline, Diego Lazarte, Eve Luckring, Giovanni Singleton, Gloria Arteaga, Guillermo Valdizán Guerrero, Gustavo Reátegui Oliva, Ingrid Keir, John Patrick Mc Kenzie, Jorge Polar, José Antonio Galloso, Kreit Vargas Gómez, Laron Biekerstaff, Lucía Fernández, Luis Alvarado, Ole Scovill, Reina Prado, Renato Pita Zilbert, Sabina Nieto, Shelley Cook-Contreras, Todd Brown, Yu-Hang Huang.
Special guests: Caterina Davinio from Italy and a selection from the International Visual Poetry Festival "Un Par de Vueltas por la Realidad", curated by Giancarlo Huapaya in Lima, Perú.
Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts
2868 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
MCCLA is 1/2 block from the 24th Street BART Station
Muni: 14, 14L, 48, 49 & 67 and is wheelchair accessible
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Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts (MCCLA) was established in 1977 by artists and community activists with a shared vision to promote, preserve and develop the Latino cultural arts that reflect the living tradition and experiences of the Chicano, Mexican, Central and South American, and the Caribbean people.
