Current & Past Events
Sipping "Tequilera" en Fuego: An Evening of Astrid Hadad
According to Tim Weiner of the New York Times, Astrid Hadad is “outraged” and “outrageous” and the artist behind what “could be one of the most provocative stage acts since the Weimar Republic was in bloom.” As a diva-cum-performance artist extraordinaire, Hadad embodies and mixes the multiple facets of Mexico’s complex identity into performances and images that form a political cabaret, simultaneously embracing and skewering the heritage and stereotypes that both dignify and haunt Mexican national identity.
For this colourschool event, Francisco Granados Samayoa presents videos of Hadad’s videos and discusses them in relation to his own memories, practice, and politics.
For more on Astrid Hadad, see, and.
Read Tim Weiner’s article
- host:
- Francisco Granados Samayoa
- date & time:
- March 25th, 2008 at 7 pm
- contact:
- [info@colourschool.org]
Host Biographies
Francisco-Fernando Granados is a young, Guatemalan-born artist currently working in painting and performance. Through his practice, he aims to interrogate the emotional and structural parallels between transcultural and amorous experiences. The possibilities opened up by the failed translation of a desire become the conceptual site for the aesthetic investigation of queered and raced bodies in representation, marked and unmarked. His passions include refugee issues, post-colonial and feminist thought, and butter chicken. He is currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the Emily Carr Institute in Vancouver.
Event Images & Documentation
From real-productions.net