PUTILANDIA brings together artists Marcel Alcala, Rosè Hernandez, and Sofia Moreno for a night of performance and video that thrusts into the realms of culture fucking, disidentity, sploshing,voyeurism, the great escape. Experience the “value” of art amongst the remnants of post-colonial head butting. (Facebook event page.)

Also with Musical Performances
NEW NATIVE
SEWAGE

Marcel Alcala w/ Monica Noonan
“In and Out There”
The performance will be 2 clowns. I’ll be holding a mic and walking in the gallery making note of different situations and talking about the institution. I’ll be posing and the other clown will be holding the camera. Basically a walk in and out. Posing for photos and making a scene. Kinda like the orisia Osain.

Sofia Moreno
“CyberNymph”
CyberNymph, is the first in a trilogy of experimental videos that explores artificial landscapes, fantasy, internet pornography and the use of the body as sculpture to create a seductive and mind- altering experience.

“Kake, Kake, Kake”
By working with food I examines questions of she-male porn consumption, fetish, consumerism and the value of the female TransBody as an artistic medium. Inspired by a variety of sources such as my “Color Studies Series” “Kake,Kake,Kake” brings to life works on paper of 2009 and blurs the lines between, the physical, art, fetish and the distinction between those who use food as material and those who use it as simply an aesthetic medium; objects are not only perceived, but also like or disliked emphasizing the subjectivity of the TransExperience in internet pornography.

Rosè
“Out of Malkuth”
Lingering on a physical plane, the artist struggles both with its fragmented body, hindering absolution, and the realization that great escape is mere myth.

Marcel Alcala was born and raised in Santa Ana, CA to immigrant parents. Came out at 19 in Chicago, IL where he attended SAIC. Work deals with critical resentment of the Institution and how one can create work that ultimately plays fire with fire.

Jose Hernandez (Ishtar Bukkake/ROSÈ/Celeste) is a Chicago?body based artist. Drawing from elements of dance, performance, theater, music, and ritual he explores the spaces that border between the body, fantasy, queer world making, and religious practices in search for immanence in a post-millenial landscape. Jose attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago(BFA 2008). Recently he was awarded a Link Up residecy at Links Hall where he presentes a three day ceremony, Planet X The Nu Fantaztiik. He has presented work in Chicago at Defibrillator Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art, S+S Project, Sullivan Galleries, Garbage World, Happy Dog, Berlin, The Hideout, Aldo Castillo Gallery, and New Capital. He has also exhibited work at JACK (NYC), Oliver Francis Gallery (Dallas), Aux Performance Space, and Little Berlin (Philadelphia).He has performed and collaborated with artists Antibody Corporation, Ginger Krebs, La Spacer, Gel Set, Eileen Doyle, and Heather Lynn. Currently he is collaborating with artist Efren Adkins with Burning Orchid a pre-identity post-colonial performative earthwork.

Sofia Moreno was born and raised in Coahuila, Mexico. In 1994 she immigrated to United States, where she currently lives and works prior to moving to Chicago Sofia lived in Texas. Sofia Moreno is a mixed media artist and her subjects include expressions of the sacred and profane the body, sexuality, religion and socio-political issues within contemporary culture. Moreno is currently working on the follow- up to her five year project P o r n A g a i n. “I’m interested in the essence of the body rather than the form itself. I paint a sexually and spiritually confused youth.” Sofia Moreno.