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Happenings are cross-disciplinary non-text-based events that utilise all media and means at an artist’s disposal, often from outside the maker’s own field, to blur boundaries between art and life.
Guillermo Gómez-Peña is an artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and director of the performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. His work has contributed to debates on diversity and border culture.
Activism is the intervention of an individual or group, using varied tactics, to disrupt and challenge inequality, and create transformation in the social, political, cultural or economic realm.