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I am Vincente Perez. I am SubVersive.
Vincente Perez is a Black Mexican-American performance poet, scholar, and writer working at the intersections of Poetry, Hip-Hop, and Digital Black cultural praxis. Due to their upbringing in Kansas City, KS their work centers Black and Latinx lived experience and focuses on how artists use narrative to resist dominant stories that attempt to erase, subjugate, or enact violence on marginalized communities. They are a PhD Candidate in the Performance Studies program at UC Berkeley and hold a BA in Anthropology and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies from The University of Chicago.
Vincente believes that art has the power to challenge popular narratives that structure peoples’ lives. He utilizes liminal experiences as lenses that can reflect back on the worlds that create these experiences. Instead of Either/or world perspectives, Perez examine the multifaceted world of “And”. He asks / attempts to answer: what happens when we consider all of ourselves simultaneously rather than in isolated, limiting snapshots? How do the ways that we classify ourselves affect our agency in the world? Lastly, and most importantly, are the labels that are provided for us sufficiently capturing our experiences and if not, what do we lose when we accept these labels and all their baggage?
Vincente layers meanings and sounds together to explore how intentional chaos unsettles oppressive notions of canons, high art, and other elitist concepts that continue the American legacy of silencing minoritized perspectives. Perez’s poems speak and cry and move beyond the page.
Here is my linked CV for more information.
I am Vincente Perez. I am SubVersive.
Vincente Perez is a Black Mexican-American performance poet, scholar, and writer working at the intersections of Poetry, Hip-Hop, and Digital Black cultural praxis. Due to their upbringing in Kansas City, KS their work centers Black and Latinx lived experience and focuses on how artists use narrative to resist dominant stories that attempt to erase, subjugate, or enact violence on marginalized communities. They are a PhD Candidate in the Performance Studies program at UC Berkeley and hold a BA in Anthropology and Comparative Race and Ethnic Studies from The University of Chicago.
Vincente believes that art has the power to challenge popular narratives that structure peoples’ lives. He utilizes liminal experiences as lenses that can reflect back on the worlds that create these experiences. Instead of Either/or world perspectives, Perez examine the multifaceted world of “And”. He asks / attempts to answer: what happens when we consider all of ourselves simultaneously rather than in isolated, limiting snapshots? How do the ways that we classify ourselves affect our agency in the world? Lastly, and most importantly, are the labels that are provided for us sufficiently capturing our experiences and if not, what do we lose when we accept these labels and all their baggage?
Vincente layers meanings and sounds together to explore how intentional chaos unsettles oppressive notions of canons, high art, and other elitist concepts that continue the American legacy of silencing minoritized perspectives. Perez’s poems speak and cry and move beyond the page.
Here is my linked CV for more information.