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This communal dinner event – imagined by multi-media artist Isidro Perez Garcia – invites guests to dine on traditional foods and drinks from the Americas including tostadas, tlacoyos or tamales de chipilin, and nieve de tuna, pulque, chicha morada, and agua fresca.
This dinner series invites artists/creatives/chefs to craft food and drinks that translocate between distinctive settings in private residences and creative spaces across Southern and Baja Californias. Supper Club attendees are invited to share paranormal experiences, urban legends, and personal stories while enjoying a delicious meal.
The PARA/normal Borders Supper Club is currently by invite only. Click below to join the waitlist.
Isidro Pérez García (aka ChiloTe) is a borderless artist from Santa Ana, CA and Atotonilco El Grande, Hidalgo, México. He uses various artistic media in his artwork, drawing on his perspective as a formerly undocumented migrant and a campesino urbano. After more than twenty years living undocumented in the US, he received his US residency and quit his job in a furniture-making factory to pursue his BFA from CalArts and his MFA from UCSD. His thesis artwork was awarded the David Antin Prize from UCSD and the Graduating Artist Award from ICA San Diego. He was recently named a California Arts Council, Established Artists Fellow grantee, and his work with maguey plants was featured in a special project with the US Library of Congress. His artwork has been shown at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture, ICA San Diego, and the University of Virginia, among others.
PARA/normal Borders Supper Club is a special project of the PARA/normal Borders Lab, a multi-year research initiative that examines the U.S.-Mexico borderlands as a supernatural zone. Experimental projects including the Supper Club aim to engage participants in conversations through a series of exhibitions, salon style gatherings, oral histories, and community workshops, with the aim to collect a better understanding of our “borders” both real and metaphoric. The Supper Club Series is organized by April Lillard-Gomez for the MexiCali Biennial.