Image above: Emilio Rojas, Heridas Abiertas, 2013–ongoing. Performance, dimensions variable. Courtesy of the artist. The U.S-Mexican border es una herida abierta where the Third World grates against the first and bleeds. —Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, 1987 tracing a wound through my body is the first traveling survey of the contemporary...
A Manual to Be (to Kill) or To Forgive My Own Father The Iwasaki Library RSVP required leonie_bradbury@emerson.edu The live performance and installation, A Manual to Be (to Kill) or To Forgive My Own Father, presents Rojas’ deconstructions of the popular novel, Pequeño Hombre, one of many written by his estranged father, who bears his...
GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM! Artist Performance + Talk by Emilio Rojas Media Art Gallery October 14, 2022 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM! is a lecture/performance by artist Emilio Rojas. It moves away from this xenophobic phrase and investigates the history of colonialism and border trauma. This lecture...
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