18th Street Arts Center

Hugo Hopping: The Real State of Your Mind: Subjectivity and Capitalism After 1968

A panel exploring questions governing relationships and forms given in movements and situations where issues of identity have now been transformed by social singularity and subjectivity. The panel will underscore this discussion as a lively debate between producers coming from different areas of cultural production.

Hugo Hopping was born in 1974 in Mexico City, he lives and works in Los Angeles and Copenhagen. He is currently a consultant for the Danish Royal Theater of Copenhagen working for TNT, Temporary National Theatre. He has just completed a residency at the University of California at Santa Barbara in the department of ‘Black Studies’ forming part of an investigation into 1968 and student-driven movements and politics. Recently, his work was included in the exhibitions “On the Shoulders of Davids,”Jaus (2009); “Post-American L.A.” 18th Street Arts Center, in Santa Monica (2009); “7 Proposals for a Room in L.A.” G727, Los Angeles, (2008); Rainer Ganahl, Mario Garcia Torres, Hugo Hopping, John Menick, Nate Harrison” at Sandroni Rey Gallery in Los Angeles (2007).