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rafa esparza

<p>For the performance <em>Corpo RanfLA: Terra Cruiser</em>, the artist rafa esparza transforms his body into a lowrider cyborg, inviting people in his community to &#39;ride&#39; him. The remnants of the performance – a retrofitted 25-cent pony ride structure – remains on display during the fair.</p><p>The performance revisits a collaborative work from 2018 – with Mario Ayala, Tanya Melendez, Paul Marcus Rodrigez, and Fabian Guerrero – to paint his body in the style of a lowrider car and document his biosyncretic body in Elysian Park, a historic and contemporary site of lowrider as well as gay cruising in Los Angeles. Honoring the vernacular art/technology of lowrider culture, which has been stigmatized via the &#39;NO CRUISING&#39; signs throughout East Los Angeles – even while being coopted by mainstream culture in recent years – esparza recorded a script for riders to listen to privately while riding him. What journeys do they hope to embark on? What do they want to ride for?</p><p>This project was initiated by L.A. Times Image Magazine.</p><p><strong>rafa esparza</strong> (b. 1981, Los Angeles) is a multidisciplinary artist whose work reveals his interests in history, personal narratives, and kinships as well as his own relationship to colonization and the disrupted genealogies that it produces. esparza&#39;s recent projects are grounded in laboring with land and adobe-making, a skill learned from his father, Ramón Esparza. esparza lives and works in Los Angeles.</p><p><em>Not for sale</em></p>

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