La Pocha Nostra's Corpo Insurrecto

La Pocha Nostra is an ever-growing cross-disciplinary arts organization based in San Francisco, California with branches in Central and South America, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific. Founded in 1993 by Guillermo-Gomez-Peña, Roberto Sifuentes, and Nola Mariano in Los Angeles, its projects range from performance solos and duets to large scale multi-sensory performance installations involving photography, video, sound, and projection.

The 8th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute sought to examine the broad intersections between urban space, performance and political/artistic action in the Americas. From the critical poetics of body art to the occupation of public space by social movements, the event invited participants to explore the borders, identities and practices through which subjectivities, hegemonies and counter-hegemonies are constructed in the spaces of the city and beyond. Corpo Insurrecto: Psycho-Magic Actions for a World Gone Wrong is a live art durational performance that dialogues around the possibilities for and models of contemporary North/South artistic and theoretical collaborations. Building upon La Pocha Nostra's previous experiences collaborating with Brazilian artists/venues, Corpo-Insurrecto experiments with and develops both discussion and art during the duration of the Encuentro.