A Conversation with Poet and Visual Artist Manu Tzoc Bucup

Join us for a special presentation and conversation with poet, performance and visual artist Manu Tzoc Bucup. 

The Performance as Public Practice Fridays@2 community is hosting a presentation and conversation with Manu Tzoc Bucup about their work "Mobile Bodies: Object and Word/Language and Artifact." This presentation is thanks to the 2024 Lozano Long Conference: Indigenous Lands, Resisting Sexualities in Abiayala, held on April 18-19, 2024 and organized by Performance as Public Practice faculty member Enzo Vasquez Toral and Native American and Indigenous Studies Director and Spanish and Portuguese faculty member Luis Cárcamo-Huechante.

About Manu Tzoc Bucup

Manu Tzoc Bucup is a poet and self-taught visual artist of Maya K’iche’ descent who has perfected his craft through workshops, diplomas and readings of contemporary art and literature. His work consists of metaphorizing social realities of intersectional identity through poetry and art. Consistent topics in his work include gender, identity, body, origin, memory, language, sexual dissidence and all possible hybridizations. Bucup’s literary work has appeared in magazines and literary anthologies throughout Latin America, in Spanish, English, Tsotsil, French and K’iche’. He has been featured in national and international poetry festivals and art exhibitions.

DATE

April 23, 2024 at 5:00 p.m.
WIN 2.112

The presentation will be in Spanish with consecutive interpretation provided by PPP students.

This event is free and open to the public. Snacks will be provided.