molaa
museum of latin american art
628 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach, CA 90802
Phone 562.437.1689
info@molaa.org // www.molaa.org

1.
En La Noche
Thursday, May 20
6 pm - 10 pm - Video and Music
Every third Thursday of the month EN LA NOCHE at MOLAA features live music, films and tours of some of the most exciting modern and contemporary Latin America art currently on view, this time we present Fernando Llanos, mexican videoartist and curator of the exhibition Manchuria Peripheral Vision - A Felipe Ehrenberg Retrospective. Mexico’s leading video artist and curator of Manchuria offers an evening of video art, dance and music. Throughout the night, Llanos will entertain the audience with his repertoire of video works, beginning with RPM, the 1998 video that catapulted his career by winning Best Experimental Video in the Venezuela video festival. It will be followed by a selection from the Videoviajes Series / Video Travels Series, his World Wide Web series which debuted at the Guggenheim Museum, New York; a series of deoman’s Adventure videos, as well as a few shorts of cell-phone video works. The evening concludes with the sounds of his band, MI REYNA performing sweet melodies with vocals by Regina Guerrero, Jessica Herreman on keyboard, Fernando Llanos on guitar, accompanied by the linguistic collaborations of Felipe Ehrenberg. Stage videos are by mexican artist: Hector Falcón.

6 pm - 9 pm - Café Viva
Café Viva will serve drinks and appetizers at a “Happy Hour” at 6:00pm and will be serving a prix-fixe dinner from
Complimentary Chilean wine tasting.

6:30 pm - 8 pm -Tours
Take a tour of our permanent collection exhibition. Docent tours begin at 6:30, 7:00pm and 7:30pm.

8 pm / VIDEOMANIA, artistic performance by Fernando Llanos
Enjoy an evening with artist Fernando Llanos as he presents his world premier VIDEOMANia: Importing feelings from Satelite City! Considered one of the most distinguished young Mexican artists in the use of video, he has presented his work in more than twenty countries. His work shifts between several territories and disciplines, including video, robotics, ciberart and performance.

9 pm / Mi Reyna
Mi Reyna, is a musical group surrounded by their love for music and music for love. The three band members are Reyna Guerrero, singer and painter, who started her career at the age of 13 as a Jazz vocalist. Fernando Llanos, one of Mexico’s most prestigious visual artist and Jessica Herreman, ex-member of the 90's kids rock band Microchips, on the keyboards. Together, they bring to you music without preconceived labels!


2.
MANCHURIA: Peripheral Vision
A Felipe Ehrenberg retrospective
May 23 – August 15, 2010

“…an activist of culture; conceived as someone who determinately influences its development without being restrained by previously established restriction…”
--Neologist defined by Felipe Ehrenberg

Manchuria: Peripheral Vision—A Felipe Ehrenberg Retrospective is an exhibition of multimedia works created by Felipe Ehrenberg, one of Mexico’s most influential and iconoclastic contemporary artists. This retrospective exhibition, presented for the first time to audiences in the United States, demonstrates the importance of Ehrenberg’s contribution to a postmodern aesthetic of conceptual, performance, installation and video art from the 1960s to the present. The international touring exhibition of more than 200 works of art surveys Ehrenberg's rich body of work that crosses over decades, cultures and continents.

Manchuria: Peripheral Vision— A Felipe Ehrenberg Retrospective was organized by the Museo de Arte Moderno in Mexico City and curated by Fernando Llanos. The MOLAA presentation is co-curated with Senior Curator Cynthia MacMullin and is funded by the Robert Gumbiner Foundation, Verizon Wireless, Arts Council for Long Beach, City of Long Beach, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Pasadena Art Alliance, La Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, México, the Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles and the MOLAA Annual Exhibition Fund. Media support is provided by ABC7, KCRW (89.9FM), La Opinion, LA Weekly, Los Angeles magazine and Telemundo.

Exhibition Opens: SUNDAY, MAY 23, 11:00 – 5:00PM
Artist & Curator Talk: SUNDAY, MAY 23, 3:30 – 5:00PM

3.
Master Art Class – Art in Con/Text
Saturday, May 22
Join Felipe Ehrenberg and Fernando Llanos in designing and producing a small edition of digitally printed artist’s books. Enrollment is limited. Some restrictions apply. For more information, please contact the Education Department at 562.216.4108.

4.
Artist & Curator Talk
Sunday, May 23, 3:30 - 5 PM


5.
XOCOYOTZIN, The Antepenultimate
Saturday, May 29. 8 pm


The United States premiere of Felipe Ehrenberg’s Xocoyotzin the Antepenultimate offers audiences a postmodern revisionist history of the Iberian invasion of Mexico and the murder of Emperor Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin (Moctezuma) by Hernán Cortés. It is narrated in a layering of Nahuatl, Spanish and English. The witness (the artist) and his cast of performers render in multiple “voices” a series of events ensuing from the 500 year-old clash of cultures. Presented in honor of Mexico’s 2010 Bicentennial Celebration, the theatrical production is a phantasmagorical critique of Mexican history, identity and social construction.

Felipe Ehrenberg's performance is a postmodern revisionist history of the Iberian invasion of Mexico. The production is a phantasmagorical critique of Mexican history, identity and social construction. Performed in conjunction with the exhibition The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire, March 24 – July 5, 2010, at the Getty Villa, Malibu.

6.
Special Performance: Strange Democracy: An Evening w/Spoken Word Brujo, Guillermo Gómez-Peña.
Friday, June 4, – 8 PM
A new solo performance by California’s seminal Mexican performance artist.

Using acid humor, multilingualism and subversive strategies, the performance is a semi-political analysis of American presidents Bush and Obama and U.S./Mexico border issues. Some of the issues explored include denouncement of the anti-immigration hysteria, Minute Men, three-ply fences, transnational identities, geographical and psychological outposts and new technologies in the post-911 era. During the performance, cultural borders move to the center by placing the audience in the position of “foreigners” in his performance “country.”