“el hoyo is a hole. a hole that sucks time.”

In “el hoyo” Rafa Esparza engages with trash and discarded items, using el basurero/ the dumpster as a framing device wherein he negotiates his relationship to memory and time.

The evening will move in three parts, with brief intermissions in between. “el hoyo” will begin outside of Human Resources and move through an installation inside the gallery with a participation by Nick Duran (http://nickduran.org/home.html) and “Beto” Esparza.

Start time 7:30

(Early arrival is strongly suggested as the performances will begin promptly at 7:30pm.)

No cover charge, donations are welcome.Rafa Esparza lives and works in Los Angeles. His work ranges in medium from installation, sculpture to drawing, painting; and most predominantly live performance. Esparza is persistent in staging situations where he attempts to experience a time and space inaccessible to him. Using live performance as his main form of inquiry; site specificity, materiality, memory and (non)documentation become primary tools in interrogating, critiquing and examining ideologies, power structures and binaries that problematize the “survival” process of historicized narratives and the environments wherein people are left to navigate and socialize. Esparza has performed in a variety of spaces ranging from community engaged places such as AIDS Project Los Angeles, to galleries including Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Highways Performance Space, REDCAT, Human Resources, SOMArts and most recently public sites through out the city of L.A.