NAVEL

🚨 SHOW UPDATE 🚨

MATÍAS ANAYA & LU COY: LA TRANSCENDENCIA
AN L.A. HOMECOMING SHOW RESCHEDULED FOR FRI, JUNE 17th

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Due to a bout of tour induced covid, we have had to push thee homecoming extravaganza out a week to give the girls enough time to quarantine! SAFETY FIRST! ⛑

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Coming in hot from their inaugural West Coast tour, virtuosic trans super duo Matías Anaya & Lu Coy celebrate their triumphant homecoming at NAVEL, with additional performances by LA
trans legends Davia Spain & Michati, featuring special guest Habuibah Layla Nour and iconic DJ sets by URAGAY all night long.
A message from the artists, "b there or b square qunts."

Performances by:
Matías Anaya (.matias )
Lu Coy ( )
Davia Spain ( )
Michati( )
with Special Guest: Habibah Layla Nour
(.layla.nour )

DJ sets by:

DJ URAGAY (.uragay )

Friday, June 17th 2022
10PM - 2AM
NAVEL (.la)
1611 S Hope Street, Los Angeles, CA. 90015

Thank you to everyone who attended the first installment of our ASSEMBLIES: Art Into Action Public Programming last Tuesday! We were grateful to be in conversation with three powerful storytellers from L.A. City 🌆 ➰ 🖥

We are inspired by Sandra de la Loza’s playful but critical questioning of our current, dominant, extractive/colonial world set-up. As the founder of the Pochx Research Society of Erased and Invisible History, de la Loza inserts (un)official historical markers to interrupt a historical amnesia, trigger memory, and interrogate the present as a part of a systemic investigation of discourses of place and displacement.

During our conversation, Sandra shared about her performative archivist practice through questioning the “Archive”– who is and who is not included in History and the power dynamics that shape those decisions.

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As the founder of the Pochx Research Society of Erased and Invisible History, de la Loza “...is evocative of critical cartography that “situates maps within specific relations of power and not as neutral scientific documents.” De la Loza’s use of the historical marker–which is, after all, the mapping of social space through pedagogical encounters–challenges official histories by claiming “the power of the map to achieve ends other than the social reproduction of the status quo.” In this case, De la Loza’s aim is to use the (un)official markers to make “absence palpable.”

(to tell the stories that are often left out of colonial histories).

From the foreword to The Pocho Research Society Field Guide to L.A.: Monuments and Murals of Erased and Invisible Histories
Sandra de la Loza
2011

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🗓 Save the date for the next platicá.

Shaping The Culture Wars
Tuesday, April 12th
6 - 8 PM Pacific | Zoom

RSVP for all Main Track conversations here:
https://bit.ly/artintoactionplaticas

Public Programming is open to the general public with closed-captioning, ASL + Spanish interpretation provided.



ImageCredits:
Lead: Pochx Research Society, Operation Invisible Monument, 2002. Photo by Dolores Rivera. Image courtesy by Sandra de la Loza
Slides: from PRS' Field Guide to LA, 2011.