October 18, 2021
School of Theater and Music, University of Illinois Chicago
Mex Files LIVE: The Pandemia Chronicles
Gómez-Peña returns to Chicago for his first LIVE and in-person performance since lockdown began. This new solo performance monologue features new writing responding to the multiple pandemias including rantings and confessions. This one-night event is presented in dialog with his ongoing experimental radio program presented by Public Media Institute Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Audio Art & Strange Poetry from the US/Mexico Border (1985–2021)” and the exhibition at Hull-House Gómez-Peña’s Casa Museo: A living Archive and Museum. (September 9, 2021—May 29, 2022).
Featuring a cameo by conceptual artist, performer and storyteller Robin LaVerne Wilson aka DRAGONFLY.
Presented by Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in partnership with the School of Theater and Music in the College of Architecture, Design and the Arts at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC). Co-sponsors include, The Rafael Cintrón Ortiz Latino Cultural Center, UIC, the School of Arts and Art History, UIC, and the Open Practice Committee, UChicago. The Performance is an Initiative of Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40
October 20, 2021
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, University of Illinois Chicago
Gómez-Peña & La Pocha Nostra takeover Hull-House
Join Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra for a fully immersive and performative activation of the Casa Museo exhibition for an afternoon of interactive live imagery, music, poetry, and calls for action by the audience. Bring an object you are ready to purge and add to a growing exhibition curiosity cabinet and time capsule. Objects must come and leave with guest.
Presented by Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in partnership with the Open Practice Committee and Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago. This Performance is an Initiative of Toward Common Cause: Art, Social Change, and the MacArthur Fellows Program at 40