School of Music Visiting Artist - John Holloway

Event Information

Date: May 8

Time: 10 AM

Location: CalArts Campus; Wild Beast

About:

School of Music Visiting Artist John Holloway joins us  for an Experimental workshop class!

There will be a rehearsal and performance of a piece by John Holloway and Michael Pisaro-Liu (called “The Tipping Point”). This will be followed by a discussion about the political potentials of and in experimental music.

OPEN TO THE INSTITUTE

About the Artist

JOHN HOLLOWAY has written widely on anti-capitalist struggles and the meaning of revolution today. He is particularly inspired by the Zapatista movement and the Kurdish Freedom Movement. His trilogy, Change the World without Taking Power (2002), Crack Capitalism (2010) and Hope in Hopeless Times (2022) has been translated into more than a dozen languages and has stirred international controversy. He is a professor in the graduate school of sociology in the Instituto de Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla in Mexico.