Tumbados Symposium

Storefront for Art and Architecture and The Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture of The Cooper Union present Tumbados, a symposium celebrating artist Guadalupe Rosales and a decade of her ongoing archive project titled Veteranas and Rucas. This dynamic event including poetry, performance, panel discussions, and live music, is organized as part of her year-long public artwork with Lokey Calderon on Storefront’s facade. Tumbados engages with lowrider culture and its role within the built environment in creating and shaping spaces for Latin@/x public life. The symposium invites an intergenerational group of artists, writers and scholars to delve into Rosales’s community-focused practice and the expanded subjects of Queer life that she addresses. Her work commemorates and historicizes Chicanx subcultures, while fostering collective storytelling and self-affirmation, engaging audiences from LA to NYC and beyond.

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natalie Diaz will open the symposium, followed by keynote speaker and artist Estevan Oriol, who will discuss archives and counter-archives in conversation with Rocío Aranda-Alvarado. Arts critic and educator Raquel Gutiérrez will present a reading on Queer Brown Urbanism, artist, friend and collaborator of Rosales, rafa esparza will participate with a performance, and will be followed by a panel discussion by Rosales and Associate Professor of American Studies Leticia Alvarado, moderated by LACMA Curator and Acting Department Head in Contemporary Art Rita Gonzalez. Que Chola Tan Rica will close the event with a music set.

Registration on EventBrite is required. However, an EventBrite ticket does not guarantee entry as this is a first-come-first-served free event.

Host or Publisher Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science & Art