VIDEO + AUDIO Mazza Writer in Residence Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, in collaboration with Kyle Parker at The Green Arcade

Full-program video: Tatiana Lubovisky-Acosta with Kyle Parker: October 6th, 2018
Video highlight clips: Kyle Parker reads a poem, from outdoors near the street, written by Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta, with the latter performing a series of movements | Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta and Kyle Parker perform a series of poems written by Luboviski-Acosta, accompanied by the audience

As the concluding event of their Mazza Writer in Residence week with The Poetry Center, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta will stage an original performance, in collaboration with Kyle Parker, at San Francisco's "bookstore in the hub," The Green Arcade. Supported by a grant from the Sam Mazza Foundation, this event is free and open to the public. 

A Nicaraguan Californian via Mexico raised both in Huntington Park and Highland Park neighborhoods of Los Angeles, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta lives in a rent controlled apartment in the Mission District of San Francisco. An artist, writer, reproductive justice activist, patient advocate, and lapsed full spectrum doula who supports themself through working at a neighborhood cafe and cleaning houses, Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta’s work attempts, as fellow poet Lauren Levin writes, to “include direct revolutionary action, up to and including revolutionary violence, as part of a continuum of care, and their use of this redefinition of care-work to rethink gendered paradigms.” Their first book, The Easy Body, was published by Oakland queer art & publishing collective Timeless, Infinite Light in 2017. Photo: Dickie Bahto.

Kyle Parker grew up in California's San Gabriel Valley and has performed music as Infinite Body since 2007. He currently lives in Big Sur, folding laundry and cleaning bathrooms at a retreat center known as the birthplace of the human potential movement.