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If you are interested in booking a project with Gómez-Peña & La Pocha Nostra, please begin by filling out our brief booking form here.
La Pocha Nostra is currently offering a diverse menu of projects that can be hosted within a range of venues including colleges and universities, museums, galleries, festivals, alternative art spaces or virtually.
NOW BOOKING FOR LATE 2025 AND BEYOND:
*Site-specific exhibitions and installations showcasing and making accessible La Pocha Nostra’s vast “living archives” and media work (more info below)
*The Last Migration: A solo performance sampling theory, poetry and performance texts by Gómez-Peña (more info below)
*The Mex Files Duet: A divination ritual by Balitronica and Gómez-Peña. More here
* The Museum of the Future Project: A performance keynote challenging contemporary art museum practices and calling for an open discussion regarding radical restructuring(s) from within. More here
*Multimedia performance lectures including Multiple Journeys: The Life and Work of Gómez-Peña
*Evenings of Experimental films created by La Pocha Nostra over the past 5 years
*International Alumni Workshops. Please note that introductory level LPN workshops are on hiatus for 2025 while the pedagogy is being redeveloped by Balitronica.
*Virtual offerings include keynotes, film screenings and special class visits
*1:1 Mentorships with LPN core members via Zoom
“Gómez-Peña questioned the very core of the university experience, and our relationships with our community and with each of our colleagues. The piece “haunted” the balance—or imbalance—of social power that has been set in place in the fixed cultural landscape of contemporary America.” -Richard Lou
DESCRIPTIONS OF SPECIFIC PROJECTS:
The Other Art-World: A photo-performance and living archives exhibit
Exploring the relationship between audience and performer is a long-standing practice of Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra,“the longest-lasting performance art troupe in the world.” (1993-present) In this ongoing artistic collaborative process, carefully orchestrated photo sessions are imagined as “performances for the camera” (a format that LPN pioneered in the late 80s), offering a conceptual leap from traditional portraiture or straight-forward documentation. In this spirit, and over the decades, LPN has created numerous carefully staged “photo-performance portfolios” with renowned photographers from around the world including Antonio Turok (Mexico), Manuel Vason (Italy), RJ Muna (US), Piero Viti (Italy), Teresa Correa (Spain) Herani Hachi (Mexico) to name a few.
This exhibit features a selection of photographic works from multiple decades highlighting LPN’s unique artistic praxis. The exhibition is designed to be adaptable in scale and setting with printing options for various sized spaces and formats.
A large-scale version of this exhibition is currently on view in San Francisco until December 12 at Saint Joseph’s Art Society.
THE LAST MIGRATION: A New Solo Performance by Gómez-Peña
Gómez-Peña’s latest solo performance—featuring texts written over the past five years—chronicles a turbulent “post-democratic era,” from the onset of the pandemic to the present day. Now available for bookings across the U.S. and virtually (for classrooms and conferences), this piece is urgent, poetic, and unapologetically relevant.
As with all La Pocha Nostra performances, the performance is site, theme and context-specific, always developed in close collaboration with the presenting curator or producer. The piece is adaptable to a wide range of settings—festivals, academic convenings in universities and colleges, museums, galleries, and community spaces—and will resonate with multi-generational audiences seeking incisive, embodied responses to our times.
This performance can be adapted to highlight specific themes including border politics, migration, art making in times of crisis and the role of art in a failing “democracy,” to name only a few. This project can also be scaled down/adapted to become a virtual class visit.
BORDERLESS: Media Projects by La Pocha Nostra
Since lockdown began in March 2020, Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra have adopted a ¨hybrid lifestyle¨ where virtuality, media & film provide ways to continue creating work and reaching trans-national “live” audiences from different locations. As a collective, LPN has never stopped creating and presenting original performances, continually pushing the boundaries of how to adapt live art to virtual formats including sound, photography, film and digital art.
These ongoing artistic explorations continue as an expansion of LPN’s practice and constitute a growing body of performance-inspired media works available for exhibition and screening (in-person or virtually).
Programs are tailored for a variety of formats—an evening of film screenings with introductions by an LPN member (Gómez-Peña et al…), photo-performance exhibits, multimedia lectures on the history of LPN and “listening parties” featuring sound art and experimental sound poetry (from our Mex Files audio archives.)