"Es Bliss - A Carranciar, Matar, Morir, En la Revolución, en la Vida de Hoy," 2010, A performance and intervention project by Raul Baltazar. Photographers: Rafael Cardenas, Rick Mendoza. Performers: William Acedo, Raul Gonzalez, Erick Huerta, Brent King, Barry Markowitz, Nuke, Erick I. Sanchez de Leon. Consultants: Hugo Hopping, Adrian Rivas. Witnesses: York Chang, Marcus Kulland-Nazario. Photo courtesy of Raul Baltazar. © Raul Baltazar and Rafael Cardenas
Performance photo of Patssi Valdez. Courtesy of Patssi Valdez. © Harry Gamboa
Photograph of the members of Regeneración in Los Angeles, California, 1914. Courtesy of the Historical Archives of La Casa de Ahuizote, Collection of Photographs. (sn 10047).
Drawing of the members of the Mexican Liberal Party published in Regeneración No. 22, January 1, 1913. Courtesy of the Historical Archives of La Casa de Ahuizote, Collection of Newspapers. (sn 45942).
Patricia Valencia, "In Search of Aztlántis," c. 1996-97, Performance still. Courtesy of the Artist. © Roman Gabriel
Vincent Price Art Museum
Fund: $50,000
The Vincent Price Art Museum will present Regeneración: Three Generations of Revolutionary Ideology, a research-driven, multi-artist exhibition examining the transnational exchange and circulation of revolutionary and activist ideas across generations between the U.S. and Mexico. The exhibition centers on three instances of cultural production, each called “Regeneración,” or Regeneration, and the interconnected ideas and relationships among them: Regeneración, a pre-revolution Mexican political newspaper (1900–1910; published in Mexico and the U.S.); Regeneración, a publication associated with the Chicano Art Movement (1970–1975; published in L.A.); and the artist-run experimental space, Public Resource Center/Centro de Regeneración (1990s; L.A.). Curated by Pilar Tomkins Rivas, Director of the Vincent Price Art Museum, the exhibition will use social mapping to trace the influence of Mexican revolutionary thought on the artist and labor movements in L.A. County stretching from Edendale to the San Gabriel Valley. The project promises to reveal a historic convergence of art, community, and global politics that has become central to the ethos and experimental practices of many artists working in Southern California today, merging visual arts with politicized and performative action, print media, and social activism.
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