CURRICULUM VITAE (in short)
PROFESSIONAL ARTISTIC POSITIONS
Founding Member and Artistic Collaborator
La Pocha Nostra Performance Troupe, San Francisco, CA
1993- 2016
Co-creating performances, community projects, installations, performance pedagogy, and lectures with performance artist Guillermo Gomez-Peña and many others. La Pocha Nostra has presented performances and installations at over 800 venues across the US, Latin America, and Europe.
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
‘CHIC’-ANO PUNK TO POCHA, 2019
Smithsonian Archive of American Arts – Lecture/Performance of Roberto Sifuentes’ papers as they enter the collection of the Smithsonian Archive of American Art. Lunch Series.
#EXSANGUINATION, 2016 - present
Collaboration with new media artist Jon Cates and Aram Han Sifuentes
Defibrillator / Ukrainian Benefit, Chicago, 2022
Oaklahomo Gallery, Chicago, 2018
Art of Networked Practices International Symposium, Singapore/Chicago/Mexico 2018
Defibrillator Gallery, Chicago, 2016
Official/UnOfficial Voting Station, 2016 and 2020
Collaboration with Aram Han Sifuentes
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, 2016
“RECUMULATIONS,” 2011
Collaborators: Claudia Hart and Edmund Campion.
The Black and White Project Space, New York City, 2011.
SELECTED COLLABORATIONS WITH LA POCHA NOSTRA/GUILLERMO GOMEZ-PEñA
“PSYCHOMAGIC ACTIONS FOR A WORLD GONE WRONG,” 2013-2016
Venice International Performance Festival, Venice Italy, 2016
University of North Carolina, 2015
Hemispheric Institute, Montreal Canada, 2014
Festival Cervantino, Mexico, 2014
Lone Star Performance Festival, Houston, 2014
“CORPO INSURRECTO/CORPO ILICITO,” 2011 – 2014
Liverpool Biennial/ Bluecoat Art Space, UK
SOMARTS Arts space, San Francisco
Columbia College, Chicago
X Havana Biennial, Cuba
Three Rivers Arts Festival/Art Up! Pittsburgh, PA
Prisma Forum, Oaxaca, Mexico
“MAPA CORPO,” 2006 – 2009
El Arte es Acción: 2do Encuentro Internacional, Teatro Valle Inclán, Madrid, Spain
Detroit Institute of Arts, Rivera Court, Detroit MI
Living Word Festival, Theater Artaud, San Francisco
Future Facts Festival, Hau Swie Theater, Berlin, Germany
Performance Studies International 12, “Performing Rites,” London, England
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
National Review of Live Arts, New Moves Festival, Glasgow, Scotland
Pickle Company/University of Utah, Salt Lake City
Festival of Northern Norway, Harstad Norway
Hemisperic Institute of Performance and Politics, 6th Encuentro “Corpolíticas / Body Politics in the Americas: Formations of Race, Class and Gender;”
Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina
University of Connecticut, Mobius Theater, Storrs, CT
Center for Contemporary Art, National Performance Network, New Orleans, LA
“THE POCHA NOSTRA PERFORMANCE INTERVENTION BRIGADE,” 2009
ANTI – Contemporary Arts Festival, Kuopio, Finland, 2009
“DIVINO CORPO,” 2008
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto Canada
National Review of Live Art, New Territories, Artist in Residence, Glasgow, Scotland
PUBLICATIONS
“Exercises for Rebel Artists: Radical Performance Pedagogy”
By Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes
August 2011, Publisher: Routledge, London/New York.
“Temple of Confessions: Mexican Beasts and Living Santos”
By Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes
Powerhouse Books, 1997.
DOCUMENTARY FILMS
HBO documentary “Americanos: Latino Life in the United States”
Produced by Nick Athas & Edward James Olmos, 2000
A World of Art: Works in Progress
Produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting in association with Oregon State University. 1997.
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RADIO DOCUMENTARY/PODCAST
Sidedoor, Smithsonian Institution, “Bloodsuckers!,” 2021
NPR New American Radio Series, “Temple of Confessions,” 1996