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.

	Victor’s multidisciplinary visual work has as its springboard his experience of the Salvadoran civil war, his deep exploration of the body politic, and issues of consumer culture, violence and identity in the 21st Century. (site) VICTOR CARTAGENA: vstudio@mindspring.com
	Born in Mexico, Violeta’s work focuses on the construction of a multidimensional space that allows for the crossing of esthetics and conceptual borders. She uses her body as a territory, approaching, questioning, and commenting on social and political phenomena. VIOLETA LUNA:  violetaluna8@yahoo.com.mx
	David submerges himself in his own Salvadoran and SoCal cultural roots, as he composes music and soundscapes that reflect his contemporary, urban identity, exploring mediums ranging from acoustic to electronic instrumentation and field recordings. DAVID MOLINA:  diablitoworks@yahoo.com
	Antigone’s Greek heritage informs her work in education, as she strives for equity and access for all students in the arts—pursuing intellectual rigor and aesthetic excellence. ANTIGONE TRIMIS:  antigone@mindspring
	A native of Argentina. Roberto’s work is aligned with a rich tradition of socially engaged and community-based theater, experimental new play development, and conceptual inquiry in the field of peacebuilding performance. ROBERTO VAREA:  varea@usfca.edu

VIOLETA LUNA is an actress and performance artist. In 1995 she founded Grande y Pequeño (Big and Small), a women’s theater company that develops original works and experimental stagings of classical plays. She has presented her performance art work and workshops in Cuba, Argentina, Peru, Brazil, Spain, France, Portugal, Norway, Slovenia and Egypt as a solo artist and as a member of La Pocha Nostra, a San Francisco-based interdisciplinary performance collective under the direction of Guillermo Gomez Peña. Luna’s work in San Francisco includes a residency at CounterPulse, and the development of a performance group with Latin American immigrant day-laborer women. DAVID MOLINA (Composer, live musician, and SOUND DESIGNER)has been exploring and creating music his whole life. After meeting director Roberto Varea 15 years ago, Molina has been composing soundtracks and sound design for not only theatre, but for all of the performing and visual art forms one can think of. during these years he collaborated with the late great composer/guitarist Chris Webb. Some Theatre Companies he has worked with include: CTG's Mark Taper Forum, Yale Repertory Theatre, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Marin Theatre Company, Magic Theatre, A Traveling Jewish Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, Brava! Theatre, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Campo Santo, Intersection for the Arts, Thick House, Soap Stone, Teatro Jornalero, Sonoma State University, Arizona State University, and University of San Francisco. Installation, performance art, and multimedia: productions for Drum Machine Museum (featuring artists such as Joan Jeanrenaud, Kronos Quartet, Mochi Pet, and Mark Pistel), Cal Arts, Oakland Museum, AAMLO, Niloufar Talebi's Translation Project, and international showings and tours with Violeta Luna, Victor Cartagena, and Secos Y Mojados (2009 Creative Capital Grantees). Film: Barry Gifford’s Ball Lightning; The Narc and Prospect by Octavio Solis,The Cause Collective’s Along the Way (2008 Sundance Film Festival), productions for The Working Group, and the films of Anna Geyer. Radio: 94.1 KPFA. Television: KQED. His music and bands-Ghosts and Strings; Los Veneremos; and Transient-can be heard on the Resting Bell, Dorog Records, Black Note Music, Mun Discos, and NKR labels. http://www.myspace.com/ghostsandstringswww.myspace.com/transientelectronicswww.mysp http://www.ace.com/losveneremoswww.r http://www.estingbell.net/releases/rb037-canciones-del-futuro htto://\www.dorogrecords.com (Look under ep's or Compilations for David Molina, Los Veneremos, or Ghosts and Strings) http://www.deconstructionist.com/blacknote/meltingpoint.htm http://www.myspace.com/mundiscos (under David Molina) VICTOR CARTAGENA (VISUAL ART/MIXED MEDIA-INSTALLATION) Salvadoran-born Victor Cartagena has been making art in the Bay Area since the late 80s. The work that Cartagena produced in the early to mid-1990’s battled with memories of the violence in El Salvador and the pain and separation that he experienced in relocating to the U.S. During this time, he was a member of Tamoanchán, a collective of Latin American printmakers working out of KALA Institute in Berkeley, sponsored by the California Arts Council (1990-1996). Cartagena’s work in the late 90s and in the past decade moved beyond solely articulating the immigrant experience. In his work his has dealt with consumer culture, homelessness, and material waste. His artistic palette has also branched out to include sculpture, audio and video installation. In the San Francisco-Bay Area, Cartagena has exhibited at Southern Exposure, Palo Alto Cultural Center, the University Art Museum at UC Berkeley, Galeria de la Raza, New Langton Arts, Ampersand International Arts, Intersection for the Arts, Catharine Clark Gallery, Euphrat Museum, the Mission Cultural Center, MACLA/Center for Latino Arts, the Sonoma Museum of Visual Arts, Sonoma valley museum, and the Oakland Museum, African American Museum and Library, MoLAA Museum of Latin American Art, among others. Cartagena’s work has been reviewed in Art Nexus, art.es, Artweek, Art Issues, emisferica, The San Francisco Chronicle, the San Francisco Examiner, San Francisco Bay Guardian, San Francisco Weekly, The San Jose Mercury News, The Oakland Tribune, Cambio and El Latino, Hoy (Los Angeles Times), and by national and international media. Nationally, Cartagena has exhibited in New York, Philadelphia, Honolulu,Chicago, Kansas city, Milwaukee, and all over California, including Los Angeles. Internationally, Cartagena has exhibited in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Japan, El Salvador, Spain, France, Belarus, Ecuador and Greece. Cartagena has served as Artist-in-Residence at ZEUM, Southern Exposure, and SF Art Commission’s WritersCorps. He has given numerous workshops, including two Family Sundays and the Matches Program at SFMOMA, and presented his collaboration with Log Cabin youth at the CO-LAB exhibit at SF State University’s Fine Art Gallery in spring of 2002. Cartagena has served on the roster of Leap, Imagination in Learning and Young Audiences of the Bay Area. He was on the faculty of Arrowsmith Academy 1998-2006, where he taught Printmaking, Mixed Media, Experimental Video and Sculpture. The work of his students has been exhibited at SFMOMA’s window galleries and Horizons Unlimited. Cartagena has given numerous lectures about his work at places such as, UC Berkeley Museum, UC Berkeley University, San Francisco State University, California College of Arts, SF Art Institute, Intersection for the Arts, School of the Arts H.S., Concultura, El Salvador, Creativity Explore, among others. Ultimo???? Cartagena was awarded a San Francisco Cultural Equity grant in 2005 and the “Visions from the New California” grant award in 2004, sponsored by a seven-member California Artist residency program consortium and pursued a month-long residency at 18th Street Arts Complex in Santa Monica in July 2004. In 2004 he received a grant from the Peter S. Reed Foundation in support of the development of his work and was nominated for the Joan Mitchell Award. He was a joint recipient of a Rockefeller grant with Octavio Solis and Larry Reed for Shadowlight’s production of The Seven Visions of Encarnación produced at the Brava Theater Center in November 2002. Cartagena received a Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation 2001 Visual Arts Purchase Award, the competitive Art Council award in the year 2000 (currently known as ARTADIA), and 1996 and 2000 Pacific Prints awards. Cartagena’s work is in numerous private and institutional collections, including the Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii, The Contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, The Oxbow School of Art, Napa, CA, the Mexican Museum in San Francisco, CA & the Collection of Egnatia Odos and the Macedonian Contemporary Art Museum in Thessaloniki, Greece. Website: www.victorcartagena.net