When: 
Friday, September 17, 2021 - 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Where: 
Famous Tattoo Works, 1210 Northampton St, Easton, PA 18042
Presenter: 
Lafayette Art Galleries
Price: 
Free

 

Heridas Abiertas (to Gloria) (2014–ongoing): A Performance by Emilio Rojas

 

Friday, September 17, 7:00 PM (in-person)

Famous Tattoo Works, 1210 Northampton St, Easton, PA 18042

Join multidisciplinary artist Emilio Rojas and tattoo artist Victor Nieto of Famous Tattoo Works, Easton, for a performance about una herida abierta, or an open wound. Every year since 2014, Rojas collaborates with a local tattoo artist to draw a line of the U.S.-Mexican border without ink from his first vertebra to his last, creating a 22-inch scar. The performance mediates upon the border as an open wound within immigrant and displaced communities, but also illuminates experiences of cultural identity, hybridity, and communal healing.

 

Sponsored by: 
Lafayette Art Galleries, CaPA, PA Council on the Arts, Northampton County Historial & Genealogical Society