Zine Workshop with Martín Sorrondeguy

Tue, April 16, 2019 6:00 PM - Tue, April 16, 2019 8:00 PM at RCAH Art Studio

Location:
RCAH Art Studio
Snyder Hall, Terrace Level
362 Bogue Street
East Lansing, Michigan 48824

As part of his artist-in-residence and the LookOut! Art Gallery exhibit Ripped & Torn: Punk at the Intersection, Martín Sorrondeguy will offer a zine workshop in the RCAH art studio. 

Martín Sorrondeguy was born in Montevideo, Uruguay; raised in the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago; and has returned to Pilsen after 15 years of living in California. He is a visual artist, photographer, and musician.

The core of Sorrondeguy’s work addresses inequities through the creation of physical and artistic space, first as the singer for the internationally renowned politically-charged punk en Españolhardcore band Los Crudos. Nineteen years ago, Sorrondeguy began his career as the lead singer for the beloved hardcore band and is now lead vocals for the openly queer punk band, Limp Wrist. The June 2018 issue of Rolling Stone magazine published an article titled “Music’s Unsung LGBTQ Heroes.” In the article, Limp Wrist was featured among the 25 most notable artists in music history due to the band's commitment to creating visibility for the LGBTQ community.

In the late 90s, Sorrondeguy produced, shot, and edited a documentary titled "Mas Alla De Los Gritos/Beyond the Screams" (1999). The documentary footage includes portions of Los Crudos tour dates throughout the U.S., Mexico, and South America. These tours informed and expanded the scope of what it meant to be a punk in the U.S. as well as in Latin America. Sorrondeguy’s documentary homes in on young Chicanx and Latinx migrant punk rockers surviving the era brought in by the xenophobic Proposition 187 in California and a general anti-Latino immigrant sentiment sweeping the U.S, and continues to do so today.

Sorrondeguy has published three photography books, En Busca de Algo Mas (2015, Ugly, Bueno Aires); Get Shot: A Visual Diary 1985-2012 (2012, Make-A-Mess, Los Angeles); and Porqueria (2010, Base, Tokyo).

In his visit at Michigan State University, the RCAH LookOut! Art Gallery is hosting an exhibition of punk ephemera, including pieces provided by Sorrondeguy. During his short artist-in-residence at MSU, Sorrondeguy will give an artist talk, provide three classroom visits, facilitate a risograph zine workshop, meet with a local LGBTQ community center, as well as visit with local high school students.

Talk:  4-7 p.m. on April 16 in the LookOut! Art Gallery

Zine workshop: 7-9 p.m. April 16 in the RCAH art studio

 

For more information, contact Estrella Torrez and torrezjs@msu.edu

Sponsored by these MSU colleges, departments, and units:

Residential College in the Arts and Humanities
American Indian and Indigenous Studies
Art, Art History and Design
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Chicano/Latino Studies
College of Arts and Letters