Bio
Performance artist, photographer, Sports journalist, radio host of SCREAMS OF COMBAT. 2010 Propeller Fund Grant Awardee (Andy Warhol Foundation, Threewalls, Gallery 400 UIC). Founder of TSC Collective (@TSCCo) and Tamale Spaceship, a food truck and “long-term performance art project addressing the interaction among body, food, machines, wireless poetry and the city”. Selected by Threewalls to present Aztlan Goal Line as part of the first In-Session program, performance art series addressing migration.
Works
June, 2018
Guiding work: Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa — AZTLAN GOAL LINE is a radio and performance art project by El Cardenal de Aztlan inspired by the text Borderlands/La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa. —- Two flag football teen teams will fight to deliver traditional comfort food to the end zone. To do so, they must cross the border – The Aztlan Goal Line. —
The youth of the audio-radio journalism program from Yollocalli Arts Reach will narrate the game for the spectators, bringing a dialogue on territory, migration, food, and identity.
El Cardenal de Aztlan broadcasted the recording of the performance on his radio show Screams of Combat on Lumpen Radio -WLPN 105.5 FM.
This program is partially supported by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council Agency through federal funds provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.