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La Pocha Nostra’s Artistic Directors Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Balitrónica will lead a special 4-day intensive workshop at Live Art Ireland from April 7-10, 2023 (4 total days). Space is limited and expected to fill quickly.
About the Pocha workshop:
The ‘Pocha workshop’ is internationally recognized as an amazing and rigorous artistic and anthropological experiment in which carefully selected artists from several countries and every imaginable artistic, ethnic, multicultural, and gender persuasion begin to negotiate common ground. Performance becomes the connective tissue and lingua franca for our temporary community of rebel artists.
In this 4-day intensive, participants will be immersed in LPN’s performance art techniques and exercises with a focus on the human body as a site for creation, reinvention, memory and activism. This cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary and cross-generational laboratory will include up to 16 international artists. We consider our performance workshop intensives to be our most important pedagogical endeavors of the year.
What will be taught?
The 5-hour per-day workshop will offer two parallel processes: Participants are exposed to La Pocha Nostra’s most recent performance methodologies, an eclectic combination of exercises borrowed from multiple traditions including performance art, experimental theater and dance, the Suzuki method, ritual shamanism, performance games and live jam sessions. Parallel to this hands-on process, the group will analyze the creative process, the issues addressed by the work, its aesthetic currency, cultural impact and political pertinence.
Who should attend? Performance artists, experimental actors, dancers, theorists, activists and students interested in the topics addressed by La Pocha Nostra. Ages can range from 18 to 80 years old. Applicants must have some performance experience and must be familiar with La Pocha Nostra’s work. The workshop is extremely fun but both physically and intellectually rigorous.
Instructors: Guillermo Gómez-Peña (Mexico/US) Artistic Director, Madrina of all things Pochx & Border Bruja
is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and artistic director of 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). 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.
Balitrónica (US/Mexico) Artistic Co-Director, Priestess & Psychomagic Occultist
Balitronica is a cyborg-feminist poet, performance artist, radical pedagogue, ritualist, hereditary witch, and 2nd Degree Cabot Priestess. Born and raised on the border of San Diego/Tijuana by a family of magical practitioners, she has a background in Classical Theater 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.
3. There are also two longer residencies offered with arrival on the 1st of April and Departure on the 21st of April. As unpaid artsworkers ourselves we ask for two people to come forward to spend a longer time here and assist us with setting up and delivering the workshop.
We need one of these artists to agree to be technical lead for the four day workshop which will entail managing lighting and sound as required.
We need another to agree to be lead caterer this might interest an artist who works with cooking as part of their practice. This person would develop a simple vegetarian menu plan for the five days and coordinate a rota of participants to help with preparing food for 16 people.
We have a small Bursary for each of these residencies of €350. Food and single room accomodation is included
Application Deadline: Friday the 3rd of March 2023
Artists may also wish to Apply to our current residency Open Call check link here
This Residential Workshop is in part funded by a Workspaces Grant from Visual Arts at the Arts Council of Ireland
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