"How do we engage in ethical art practices in the context of the 'mainstream bizarre' and a global media that feeds off extreme images, revolution as style, and hybridity as a sexual fetish?"


Guillermo Gómez-Peña

CULTURE CLASH
The collision of the historical and the hysterical

DEGENERATE ART ENSEMBLE
Whimsically Disturbing Performance Art

JOHN LEAÑOS' IMPERIAL SILENCE
A dead opera in four acts

LEDOH/SALT FARM
Butoh vérité

JAMES LUNA
Surreal post-modern indian blues

MIYA MASAOKA
Koto at the nexus of music and technology

KRISTINA WONG
Brutal but hilarious... a woman who takes life's absurdities very seriously