Welcome to the Jungle or A Microphone is Power (Work in Progress)
By Miguel Gutierrez
Friday, October 16th 6:30-pm
Presented as part of An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together
About the Performance
Miguel Gutierrez will return to Vox Populi to present a new solo-in-progress, Welcome to the Jungle or A Microphone is Power, inspired by recent travels in Latin America, where he spent time learning about the fraught political histories of repression and conflict.
What can we learn from artists in countries that followed the playbook of repression we are currently experiencing in the U.S. What might it yield to look at these parallels and consider how artists create in a time of crisis?
Please note that this performance will begin and end at Vox Populi but will involve walking through the North Chinatown neighborhood.
About the Artist
Miguel Gutierrez (he/him) is a multi-disciplinary dance and music artist. Recent work includes Super Nothing, created through the Randjelović/Stryker Resident Commissioned Artist program at New York Live Arts, and Frankenstein, created for visual artist Avram Finkelstein at Smack Mellon. Miguel's work has been presented internationally for over twenty years, most recently at ODC/SF, On the Boards, CAP/UCLA, MCA Chicago, American Dance Festival and he was a selected artist in the 2014 Whitney Biennial. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a United States Artists Fellow, and has received a Foundation for Contemporary Art award, a Doris Duke Artist Award, a Frankie Award, and four New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards. He has received project support through the National Performance Network, MAP, and the New England Foundation for the Arts’ National Dance Project. His writing has appeared in BOMB online, Small Press Traffic’s The Back Room, InDance, SLUTS anthology from Dopamine Press, and in Entanglements, a monograph on work by Luke George and Daniel Kok. His podcast, Are You For Sale? examines the ethical entanglement between dance making and funding. His two records - SADONNA: The Album, where he performs sad covers of Madonna songs, and sueño, which features his original songs - are available on all streaming platforms. He is an Associate Professor of Choreography in UCLA's department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance and splits his time between Los Angeles, Brooklyn, San Francisco, and the world. www.miguelgutierrez.org
An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together is a multi-pronged project taking place this fall at Vox Populi that activates collective process as subject, form, and method. Spanning exhibitions, a curatorial residency, public programs, and a print publication, the project explores the politics of collectivity, inviting broad publics to reflect on their own experiences of collaboration. An Endless Meeting will be presented as part of Collective Futures, a citywide initiative bringing together artist-run and community-based organizations to examine collective cultural production.
An Endless Meeting: Collective Process, Artistic Labor, and the Politics of Working Together has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage.
About The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage is a multidisciplinary grantmaker and hub for knowledge-sharing, funded by The Pew Charitable Trusts, and dedicated to fostering a vibrant cultural community in Greater Philadelphia. The Center invests in ambitious, imaginative, and catalytic work that showcases the region’s cultural vitality and enhances public life, and engages in an exchange of ideas concerning artistic and interpretive practice with a broad network of cultural practitioners and leaders.