Larval Rock Stars will be presenting a ‘borderland performance/dialogue’ as part of UC Berkeley’s Townsend Center for the Humanities Research Seminar: Rethinking Futures.
Presenting a performance and talk at the Facultad de Bellas Artes....
I will be presenting performances, an artist talk, and…
Las Techno-Tamaladas will share our TECHNO-TAMALES from NIXTA VALLEY: De Lima, Peru a San Jose, California, at MACLA in San Jose, California at this in person participatory event, where we will…
I will be doing a short talk at the Living Room Light Exchange online Zoom book release party for Publication 5. I’ll be sharing on my chapter on Queercornuc/topia!
The Techno-Tamaladas at the 2020 HASTAC Conference - Hindsight • Foresight • Insight - has been cancelled due to COVID-19.
Public performances, media screenings, and tamale making and sharing at PRO ARTS Gallery & Commons at Oscar Grant Plaza in Downtown Oakland…
The César E. Chávez Branch of the Oakland Public Library in Fruitvale is hosting a Techno-Tamalada in their Huerta de Dolores garden. We will be sharing how to make vegan versions…
Artist Ben Simmons and Praba Pilar will host a Techno-Tamalada at Providence House in Downtown Oakland. We will be sharing …
I am working with ProARTS and Charlotte Saenz to launch the Techno Tamaladas 2.0! We will be sharing all the upcoming 2020 programming that follows the Techno-Tamaladas held at ECAP food bank in 2019. All the Techno-Tamaladas are free events, open to all,…
Two evenings of multiple performers in IncivilitySF, at EXIT Theatre in San Francisco. Featuring an all-star lineup of activist artists working with themes of social justice, community-empowerment, and political awakening.
The Techno-Tamaladas are free events, open to all, where we invite community to come together, make tamales, dialogue on technologies of life (biotic tech), and share food. The third Techno-Tamalada, on Saturday September 21, 2019, will focus on Plantain Leaf tamales from Colombia.
The Techno-Tamaladas are free events, open to all, where we invite community to come together, make tamales, dialogue on technologies of life (biotic tech), and share food. The second Techno-Tamalada, on Saturday August 24, 2019, will focus on African American Hot Tamales from the Mississippi Delta.
The Techno-Tamaladas are free events, open to all, where we invite community to come together, make tamales, dialogue on technologies of life (biotic tech), and share food. The first Techno-Tamalada, on Saturday July 27, 2019, will focus on Meso American Tamales from Mexico.
I’m presenting a new work-in-progress as part of IncivilitySF at EXIT Theatre - an irreverent showcase of politically-inspired work from San Francisco’s underground.
Presenting the NO!!!BOT with Adam Zaretsky in BioCuerpos Perfor|m|ados, an evening of performances astride the Taboo-Transgression-Transcendence in Art & Science Conference.
Presenting The NO!!!BOT performance at UC Davis, as part of Speculative Futures, of the HATCH: Feminist Art & Science Shop.
Presenting The NO!!!BOT performance at Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland, California.
Workshop in Pocha Nostra’s ten day performance art intensive, and culminating performance. SOMARTS, SF
The NO!!!BOT at Grace Performance Space in Brooklyn, New York, with guest artist Adam Zaretsky!
Presenting the NO!!!BOT performance as part of the MsUnderstanding Media Series at the McLuhan Centre for Culture and Technology.
NEW FEMINIST LECTURE SERIES 2018
Women's and Gender Studies at the University of Saskatchewan presents New Feminist Lecture Series with Praba Pilar “Situated Embodied Resistance to 21st Century Necro-Techno-Colonialism”
Praba Pilar will present a lecture and performance, which will address how contemporary technological corporations such as Facebook, Google and others form a global apparatus of surveillance capitalism; this is 21st century necro-techno colonialism that adapts the ‘salvation narrative’ to proclaim a future of liberation and instrumentalize faith. In this way, online data brokers convert biological life into an extra-judicial colony in service of exploitation, dominance and control.
I'll be presenting a work in progress of the NO!!!BOT at Right About Now: Queer Artists Confront the 'New Normal' alongside performers Marvin White, Annie Danger, Ed Wolf, and curator Jaime Cortez for the National Queer Arts Festival 2017. There will be a Q & A after the four performances.
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