L.M BOGAD and PRABA PILAR ::::

Bogad is associate professor of theater and dance at UC Davis and works at the intersection between art and activism, and on the role of humor and imagination in organizing social movements. His book Electoral Guerrilla Theatre: Radical Ridicule and Social Movements is an international study of performance artists who run for public office as a prank. Bogad has performed in film, theatre, and street theatre across North America, the UK, and Montreal. He was a cofounder of the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army and a writer/performer for Billionaires for Bush and the Oil Enforcement Agency. His grants and awards include support from the Carnegie Mellon’s Center for the Arts in Society, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, and the British Arts and Humanities Research Council. www.lmbogad.com

Pilar traverses the roads of performance and politics with satire and analysis. Best known for work merging French theorist Paul Virilio and Mexican comedian Cantinflas, she has exhibited collaborative and solo work at Sweden’s Museum of World Culture, the Museum of the African Diaspora in San Francisco, SFMOMA, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Studio XX and the Darling Foundry in Montréal, and the Arte Nuevo Interactiva ’05 Biennial in Mexico. Her performances have been presented at universities and galleries, and in public streets throughout the United States. Pilar is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Creative Capital award and the Creative Work Fund award. www.prabapilar.com


We Remember the Sun:  9/11/1973
Performance Date: Thursday, 11 September 2008, 7pm
Free and open to the public

As part of the ongoing exhibition in the Walter and McBean Galleries, We Remember the Sun, L. M. Bogad and Praba Pilar will perform an original piece that commemorates the anniversary of an act of terrorist aggression: the CIA-assisted military overthrow and killing of Chile’s democratically elected President, Salvador Allende. A rooftop ritual, We Remember the Sun: 9/11/1973 will mark the spirit of rebellion, social hope, and solidarity that typified progressive political movements like that of Allende's a generation ago.