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Beto Pérez, calls himself joto* and vicho**, is an artist living and working and in the small city of Tlaxcala, Mexico where he organizes events related to HIV culture. His artistic work investigates the narratives of this virus beyond the western and progressive boundaries of western science and academia, which have centered the HIV-positive experience in the global north.
From poetry, to protest, journals to gardening and more. A quest for memory to take over the fatigue, the boredom, the routine, necessary conditions for medical surveillance. To do this, he uses art installation, video and performance. |
He has received the 2019 and 2024 PECDA Grants and a Mention in the 2018 National Journalism Award. His work has been screened at the Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum, MOCA LA, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, MAMBO, among others thanks to the Visual AIDS support, where he has been a member artist since 2022. He is also a What would an HIV doula do member and colaborator.
In 2022 his documentary "In the future" was screened at the International AIDS Conference in Montreal, Canada. In december 2022 he has founded cepa, a first network of artists and people living with HIV in Tlaxcala, Mexico. |
All these images seem disconnected, 2023.
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Education.
Playwriting workshop, 2024
Write It Out!, NYC.
Script Workshops, 2017-2018 Television Training Center,
Ministry of Public Education, Mexico City.
Cultural Planning Seminar, 2012 Ministry of Culture, Tlaxcala.
Theater Degree, 2007-2011
Hispanic Literature Degree, 2004-2006 UNAM, Mexico City.
Artist Presentations
Tending and Tenderness: Care and Communion Between Pandemics
Toronto Queer Film Festival, March 14, 2024. [Watch here].
Poz in NegLand, July 2022.
International AIDS Conference, organized by SéroSyndicat, Montreal, CA.
1st. Moving Image Meeting: Assemblies for a perfect future.
Franziska, "Más allá" Screening Room, Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City, 2019
Projects.
Please check the “Projects” menu at the top right.
Uppcoming - Swallow, December 02, 2024.
An original play to be presented in NYC.
cepa.comunidad, 2022 - current
A community of HIV-positive people and artists
gathered to appropriate the metaphors associated with this virus.
Founder and director, Tlaxcala, Mexico
Thinking(us) from the possibilities of our bodies, 2024
Installation and community practice, The Biennial in Resistance, Guatemala.
* In collaboration with Panamanian artist Milko Delgado.
Lives and Legacies of the Visual AIDS Archive, 2023
[Click here for the screening and coversation],
Whitney Museum of American Art
For the "Body as an Archive" project, click here.
Those images seem disconnected, 2023
Installation & Video, National Arts Center, Mexico City.
A day after another, 2022
Installation at the Desiderio Hernández Art Museum, Tlaxcala.
In the future, 2021
Documentary video, Brooklyn Museum and MOCA LA [Premiere].
International AIDS Conference, Montreal, Canadá, 2022.
We Found Love in a Hopeless Place, SVA Theatre, NYC, 2022.
You were scared, 2020
Video, Festival Mix, México, 2020.
Voices Project, NYC Health Department 2019.
Lucky, 2017 - current
Installation, "Soft Dick Moments" for Salón Silicon Gallery, 2019.
Virtual Health Biennial, Mexico City 2020.
Alice in Cha, 2012
Video for the play written and directed by Andrea Soler
in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Education.
Playwriting workshop, 2024
Write It Out!, NYC.
Script Workshops, 2017-2018 Television Training Center,
Ministry of Public Education, Mexico City.
Cultural Planning Seminar, 2012 Ministry of Culture, Tlaxcala.
Theater Degree, 2007-2011
Hispanic Literature Degree, 2004-2006 UNAM, Mexico City.
Artist Presentations
Tending and Tenderness: Care and Communion Between Pandemics
Toronto Queer Film Festival, March 14, 2024. [Watch here].
Poz in NegLand, July 2022.
International AIDS Conference, organized by SéroSyndicat, Montreal, CA.
1st. Moving Image Meeting: Assemblies for a perfect future.
Franziska, "Más allá" Screening Room, Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City, 2019
Projects.
Please check the “Projects” menu at the top right.
Uppcoming - Swallow, December 02, 2024.
An original play to be presented in NYC.
cepa.comunidad, 2022 - current
A community of HIV-positive people and artists
gathered to appropriate the metaphors associated with this virus.
Founder and director, Tlaxcala, Mexico
Thinking(us) from the possibilities of our bodies, 2024
Installation and community practice, The Biennial in Resistance, Guatemala.
* In collaboration with Panamanian artist Milko Delgado.
Lives and Legacies of the Visual AIDS Archive, 2023
[Click here for the screening and coversation],
Whitney Museum of American Art
For the "Body as an Archive" project, click here.
Those images seem disconnected, 2023
Installation & Video, National Arts Center, Mexico City.
A day after another, 2022
Installation at the Desiderio Hernández Art Museum, Tlaxcala.
In the future, 2021
Documentary video, Brooklyn Museum and MOCA LA [Premiere].
International AIDS Conference, Montreal, Canadá, 2022.
We Found Love in a Hopeless Place, SVA Theatre, NYC, 2022.
You were scared, 2020
Video, Festival Mix, México, 2020.
Voices Project, NYC Health Department 2019.
Lucky, 2017 - current
Installation, "Soft Dick Moments" for Salón Silicon Gallery, 2019.
Virtual Health Biennial, Mexico City 2020.
Alice in Cha, 2012
Video for the play written and directed by Andrea Soler
in the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Beto Pérez at the screenig of "Day With(out) Art: Enduring Care" at the Brooklyn Museum, 2021.
* Joto is a derogatory term used in Mexico, Honduras, and Chile to insult gay men, being one of the best known and used. However, indeed, it is also used by those involved to name themselves, following this world movement reappropriation of insults. ** Vicho (Bug) is a form adopted in many Latin America countries to speak about seropositive status.