Elia Arce
First Woman on The Moon, 2013. Image courtesy of DiverseWorks
| Elia Arce is an internationally known artist and cultural activist working in a wide variety of media including performance, experimental theater, film/video, writing, spoken word and installation. She is the recipient of the J. Paul Getty Individual Artist Award, The Rockefeller Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Durfee Foundation and a 1999 nominee for the Herb Alpert/CalArts Award in Theater.
Since 1986, she has been creating, writing and directing experimental theatre works-in collaboration with HIV positive immigrants in Houston, breast cancer workers in Washington DC, house-keeping staff in Banff, Canada and the homeless of L.A.’s Skid Row. In 1993 she created her first full-length solo performance: “I Have So Many Stitches That Sometimes I Dream That I’m Sick”. In 1995/96 she toured nationally and internationally with her second solo “Stretching My Skin Until It Rips Whole”. Her newest solo work “First Woman on the Moon” was featured at the First International Latino Theatre Festival in Los Angeles and at the First Performance Art Festival in Chile. A dual citizen of Costa Rica and the United States, Arce is based in the California desert. |
Gulliver falls asleep, 2006 Serie Acción Tricontinental Fotografía. Image courtesy of Teresa Correa
The Fifth Commandment, 2006. Image courtesy of the artist.
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