BORDER TRIP(tych) / TRIP(tico) de la Frontera
a three-part collaborative performance art project about an immigrant’s journey from El Salvador to the United States

CROSSING

A Body Parted: Shrapnel of Present Time - Un Cuerpo Partido: Esquirlas de Tiempo Presente

Friday, September 23 – Doors open at 7:30pm, Performance at 8pm
Saturday, September 24 – Doors open at 7:30pm, Performance at 8pm
Sunday, September 25 – Doors open at 1:30pm, Performance at 2pm

$10 at the door; $9:00 in advance; $8:00 with student ID
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/169877

Presented as a world premiere, A Body Parted: Shrapnel of Present Time / Esquirlas de Tiempo Presente is Part II of the “Border (TRIP)tych” an interdisciplinary performance by San Francisco-based collective Secos & Mojados. The project is a visual narrative focused on a migrant’s journey as she leaves her home in Latin America and arrives in the United States searching for a better life and a A Body Parted examines the immigrant’s moment of crossing as she is compelled to leave her homeland in el Sur (the south). The process of being divided – by the landscape, memories, dreams, and a new life on the other side is the thrust of this 45 minute performance. 

A Body Parted features noted performance artist Violeta Luna, an original live score by David Molina, and is grounded in the multimedia installation Utopia/ Nightmare: The American Dream by Victor Cartagena, which will remain on view in MACLA's gallery through October 16. The piece is structured by Roberto Varea with dramaturgy by Antigone Trimis, and iincorporates audience participation.
Secos & Mojados is a San Francisco based collective that focuses on exploring immigrant narratives through interdisciplinary performance. The collective derives its name from the effect that clandestine border crossings, particularly the most dangerous ones across deserts, rivers and seas, have on the body of the migrant. All members of the collective are immigrants, some with roots in two lands, some standing uprooted, all of them border-crossers, from Argentina, El Salvador, Greece and Mexico.

This project is made possible in part by the following: The Creative Work Fund, a program of the Walter and Elise Haas Fund supported by generous grants from The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation and the James Irvine Foundation. This is part II of the trilogy BORDER TRIP(tych) / TRIP(tico) de la frontera a project of Creative Capital. This activity is funded in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency, as well as the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Secos y Mojados is a member of the Intersection Incubator, a program of Intersection for the Arts providing fiscal sponsorship, incubation and consulting services to artists. Visit www.theintersection.org. "A Body Parted was supported by CounterPULSE's Artist Commissioning Residency".
Image Credits: Photographs by Nora Raggio.

LEAVING

Buried in the Body of Remembrance - Enterrada en el cuerpo del recuerdo

Photos by Julio Cesar Martinez and Victor Cartagena

Secos & Mojados, a San Francisco based collective focusing our work on immigrant narratives and the exploration of interdisciplinary performance. Spanish for “Dry Ones and Wet Ones,” our name evokes the effect that clandestine border crossings, through deserts, rivers and sea, have on the body of the migrant. The collaborators are trans-national immigrants: Victor Cartagena, visual artist; Violeta Luna, performance artist; David Molina, musician, composer; Antigone Trimis, dramaturge; and Roberto Varea, stage director. Individually, and in different combinations, we have been making art in the Bay Area for over 20 years. Much is being said and written about immigration, but rarely do immigrants ourselves self-define creatively our own identity-boundaries in public forums. (the bios)

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