Mexicali Biennial
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 […]
This event is at capacity. If you RSVP'd but have not received directions/information, please email info@mexicalibiennial.org. Thank you. The PARA/normal Borders Supper Club continues by bringing a traditional Mexicali-style asada with an extra-terrestrial twist as imagined by Colectivo Bajaghost and Bibiana Padilla Maltos. Asada/Transborder Aesthetics - Part II will be held at a private residence […]
Please join us on Friday, October 3rd from 6 - 9:00 p.m. at the MXCL BNL LAB - Whittier for the second in a series of salons aimed at engaging artists, humanities experts, and community members in cross-cultural exchanges through casual conversations. This event invites stakeholders within the city of Whittier and surrounding areas who […]
Join us for a hands-on printmaking workshop led by artists Natalie Godinez and inspired by ancestral stories and memories. Participants are invited to create prints based on family legends and traditions. Prints may be added to a communal altar installation, forming a collective tribute to ancestral stories. Materials provided. Event is free and open to […]
Beginning December 6, MexiCali Biennial artist-in-residence Guillermo Estrada, will create a window installation at the MXCL BNL LAB. As part of Estrada's current exhibition Almendroides, Aliens & Indígenas, the artist will create a graphic window "portal" as a parallax experience of the artwork, while also referencing the liminality and impermanence of borders. Please note that […]
Join us for a discussion by transborder artist Guillermo Estrada and Rubén Ortiz-Torres. The artists will discuss Estrada's current residency at the MXCL BNL LAB and themes around topics related to the border as a supernatural zone. This event is part of an artist residency and exhibition, Guillermo Estrada: ALMENDROIDS, ALIEN & INDÍGENA on view […]
Alien Excavations is an exhibition built around the small-run artist book ALIEN, unfolding through ephemeral source materials, and interactive stations. PURCHASE ALIEN HERE. ALIEN began as an idea “in space,” emerging from the MexiCali Biennial’s PARA/normal Borders Lab as a speculative publishing project that both embodies and interrogates the concept of alienness within and beyond […]