CalArts Center for New Performance invites you to a special conversation with Argentine art collective Mondongo. Juliana Laffitte and Manuel Mendanha are the duo that make up Mondongo, which blends ephemeral performances with intricate, sculptural paintings. The celebrated Buenos-Aires-based collective formed in 1999 and continues to explode with punk creativity. This is their first extended Los Angeles residency and first visit to CalArts.
Mondongo's work translates the dark side of fairy tales and the subconscious, whether through a chilling Pinocchio mask made of geometrically shaped mirrors, or work featuring Little Red Riding Hood with lurking Big Bad World close behind. Writer, artist, and early documenter of Mondongo's work Cecilia Pavon observes, "one way of the other, every piece created by Mondongo is about mourning, and inexhaustible feeling anchored in childhood and playing."
