2022 International Workshop ~ OAXACA
INTERNATIONAL CALL FOR ARTISTS
La Pocha Nostra returns to OAXACA CITY, MEXICO to offer our 10-day International Performance Workshop!
JUNE 17th - 26th, 2022
NOW ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS HERE
Convocatoria para Mexicanos viviendo en México (nationals)HERE
La Pocha Nostra will host a 10-day intensive workshop in the gorgeous city of Oaxac, Oaxaca. We will be working in this incredible location with an international workshop involving up to 30 artists, 12 artists from Mexico and a selection of up to 18 international artists interested in exploring the intersections of identity and how to survive pandemia as an artist. Locos y locas del Arte Vivo, let’s reunite and cross borders together! Join us!
In this stage of the pandemic, La Pocha Nostra wants to reactivate performance artists and communities to experiment with our pedagogy exploring the possibilities of creative adaptability in this present time. La Pocha Nostra will share performance strategies and techniques for outlasting these times.
Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra core members meet in Oaxaca City Friday 17th to Sunday 26th November to hold their legendary international performance workshop, in partnership with La Curtiduría Centro de Artes Visuales
About the Pocha workshop:
This school consists of 10 days with participants at La Curtiduría, Centro de Artes Visuales and become immersed in performance art with a focus on the human body as a site for creation, reinvention, memory and activism. We will place particular emphasis on the relationship between the human body and Chicano-Mexican identity. This amazing cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary and cross-generational laboratory will host a balance of local and international artists. We consider our performance workshop intensives to be our most important pedagogic endeavour of the year.
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.
As always, space will be limited and is expected to fill quickly. Responding to the economical challenges of our times, notifications of acceptance will be given within one week of having submitted your application, this will help you to plan in advance. La Pocha Nostra will help you with official letters if you need them. We encourage all interested applicants to submit your application as soon as possible. Application guidelines are included below.
What will be taught?
The exciting 6 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 20 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.
What is the application process?
International participants will be carefully chosen by a selection committee comprised of Pocha Nostra members and other international artists. Please fill the application form online and answer the corresponding questions. Responding to the economical challenges of our times, notifications of acceptance will be given within one week of having submitted your application giving you time to plan accordingly.
APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 1, 2022
Please note that we will be accepting participants on a rolling basis and strongly encourage submitting your application in advance of the deadline to assure a place. Space is limited and expected to fill quickly.
TUITION: International artists: $850.00 USD The tuition for the 10-day workshop includes access to all sessions. In order to secure your place, a non-refundable deposit of $450 USD towards the full tuition fee of $850 USD is required to confirm your place in the workshop as soon as you receive your acceptance letter. The balance of $400 is due by March 1st, 2022.
Steps for applying:
Fill out the application online HERE (English / Spanish). The form will ask you to include the following:
A 300 word MAX personal biography
A sample of your work is accessible online (video or photographic documentation). Clearly describe the medium, title and any other contextual information.
Past workshop participants: Participants from prior LPN workshops all you need to do is fill in the form and indicate where you met LPN.
Please note that La Pocha Nostra is not offering full or partial scholarships this year. If you plan on applying for outside funding, please answer the corresponding questions in the application form and we will help you with letters of support if helpful.
LA CURTIDURÍA ADDRESS
Privada Genaro V. Vásquez 107-7
For further information please contact
Saula Garcia Lopez (LPN Co-Artistic Director): saulgarcialopez@gmail.com
Aranza Cortés Karam (LPN Project Coordinator): acorteskaram@gmail.com
Federico Tello (LPN Local Producer): fede29r@gmail.com