I’l be up in the bay area again in February, ahh the bay, how I love you… I’m doing a reading of poetry from my new book The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities, forthcoming from Atropos Press. Below is the book cover (click to enlarge) and the reading details. See you there!
repost from my HASTAC blog.
As an artist/theorist, I find myself thinking a lot lately about the place of the personal in my work, and I wonder how other HASTAC scholars and readers think about these issues.
A major part of my aesthetic as a performance artist has been a choice to place personal [...]
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Repost of my original post from OccupyEverything.org. Please read, RT and comment.
I just got back from having dinner with a friend of mine who spent many nights at OccupyLA. This is a person who I think has a good understanding of gender politics and of what happened at OccupyLA. I was [...]
Calling all Hackers, Hacktivists, Political Hackers, Gender Hackers, Body Hackers, Bio Hackers, Critical Race Coders, Queer Technologists, Femme Scientists and Occupation Hackers!
I’m helping a dear friend of mine, VJ Um Amel, to organize a global Hack-A-Thon Dec 9-11 to analyze / visualize / remix data from the global occupation movement [...]
This year, I’m a HASTAC Scholar, which means I’m blogging both on this site and on theirs. Actually, since this site is mostly for announcements, I do most of my blogging over at HASTAC nowadays. I’m posting part of this entry here to help spur more discussion about these topics.
http://hastac.org/blogs/michacardenas/2011/11/26/hastac-community-standards-and-interdisciplinarity
The [...]
fauxlographic
//elle mehrmand
november [21-23] 2011
opening reception monday 11-21-11 @ 6pm
performance @ 7pm
university of california san diego
visual arts facility // performance space
fauxlographic is a performative installation that takes place within an ethno-dysphoric cloning lab, where one can clone themselves in order to analyze their diasporic anxiety. The fauxlographic clones enact sonic rituals in Farsi, [...]
Talks and Performances
2012
January 20, 21, Duke University
Marxism and New Media Conference
February 7, San Francisco
RADAR Reading Series
March 9 - 13, Austin, TX
SXSW Interactive, Queer Viralities Panel
March 17 - 25, Mexico City
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics VIII Encuentro, performance and workshop
April 6, Los Angeles
Changlings: A Night of Trans Performance, Highways Performance Space
April 19, 20 Los Angeles
WANDERLUST, Latino/a poetics of place, Highways Performance SpaceTags
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- Alexis Lothian – Queer Geek Theory
- b.a.n.g. lab
- Elle Mehrmand
- Gurl Where You At?
- Helaine Gawlica
- Kate Bornstein
- Mommy Fiercest
- Networked Performance
- Occupy California
- Occupy Everything
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- Prosthetics – Nikki Moore
- S. Bear Bergman
- Sexgenderbody
- Supercluster – Claudia Algara, Tijuana Artist









