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Praba

I am here for Friends and Networking

About Me

I'm a performer, artista, activista working on themes of technology - i live at www.prabapilar.com . Sometimes I sing with the post-punk pop band SHEMOB, sometimes with Martin Franco y La Rebelion or Mambo Soul, sometimes with Myles Boisen at spots around Oakland and San Francisco.
My latest project is a short live performance titled A Cyborg Soap Opera, here is a video of it, enjoy!!Here is my church, the Church of Nano Bio Info Cogno:

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

performers, artists, political folks, gender benders, grrrls, b-boys, interventionists, media tacticians, pranksters, snake-charmers, performance artists, pie-throwers, street artists, 'zine-sters, monkey-wrenchers, billboard manipulators, hackers, activists, cultural saboteurs, kite-fliers, renegade taxi-drivers, anarchitects, muralists, bike brigaders, skaters, magicians and musicians, mariachis and Heidegger fanatics. Orale.

Music:

Chavela Vargas, Nina Simone, Death by Stork, La India, Celia Cruz, Lila Downs, Astrid Hadad, Betty Carter, Arethra Franklin

Movies:

Santa Sangre, The Conformist

Books:

A Moment of True Feeling, by Peter Handke; The Golden Notebook, by Doris Lessing; Zero, by Ignácio de Loyola Brandão; The Obscene Bird of Night, by Jose Donoso; 100 Years of Solitude, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez; Pedro Paramo, by Juan Rulfo; Hopscotch, by Julio Cortazar; Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina, by Eduardo H. Galeano; Practicalities, by Marguerite Duras

Heroes:

La poeta Puerto Riquena Julia de Burgos, Moira Roth, Rachel Rosenthal

My Blog

High Tech Priestess Available for Service

Dear Tech Lovers,Today I became officially ordained as the head of the Church of Nano Bio Info Cogno by the Universal Life Church.  I can now officiate cyber weddings, bio baptismals, nano funera...
Posted by Praba on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 01:45:00 PST

Church performance Friday, May 2 at 7:30pm

See the latest iteration of the Church of Nano Bio Info Cogno! When:  Friday May 2, 2008:  7:30pm Where: Sonoma County Museum, 425 Seventh St Santa Rosa, CA.** free** The deeply roote...
Posted by Praba on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 12:23:00 PST

Fabulous Performance Festival in Healdsburg

NOT TO BE MISSED, THIS WILL BE A VERY SPECIAL EVENTSATURDAY NOVEMBER 3, 2007HUMANE SLAUGHER ACTS PERFORMANCE FESTIVALI am presenting a new performance - Cabaret Marx (as in Groucho) in collaboration w...
Posted by Praba on Fri, 19 Oct 2007 09:45:00 PST

Codeswitching Exhibition at Swarm Gallery

I am in this upcoming exhibition in Oakland, California:CODESWITCHINGOctober 20 - November 18, 2007 Reception for the Artists: Thursday, October 25, 2007 6-9PMLinguists define "code-switching" a...
Posted by Praba on Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:53:00 PST

Emergency Benefit September 20, 2007

I will be doing a reading of new work at:Emergency Benefit for Street Spirit Editor Terry Messman and Ellen Danchik 7 pm, Thursday, September 20, 2007 Berkeley Friends Church 1600 Sacramento ...
Posted by Praba on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 11:31:00 PST

LA BOMBA: A Midsummer Night's Benefit for Galeria de la Raza, San Francisco

I will be presenting the Cyborg Soap Opera at this benefit, PLEASE come, this is a great organization LA BOMBA: A Midsummer Night's Benefit for Galería de la Raza A historical benefit celebrating th...
Posted by Praba on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:18:00 PST

Extreme Insecurity Forces Performance Sun June 10 8pm

?EXTREME INSECURITY FORCES?EIF is an event that brings together performance, sound, video and social critique from Bay Area artists to strain out the juicy toxins of living in "the empire" in these un...
Posted by Praba on Fri, 01 Jun 2007 11:31:00 PST

Eco Artists Roundtable at Oakland Museum: April 15; 2pm

I am moderating this panel this Sunday afternoon at the Oakland Museum.  Drop on by for some illuminating art and talk.  --Eco Artists RoundtableJoin us for an exciting afternoon of environm...
Posted by Praba on Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:46:00 PST

Friday December 1 Reading

THIS FRIDAY THE ENCYCLOPEDIA PROJECT PRESENTS: X  R E F E R E N C E A pre-holiday book launch extravaganza for Encyclopedia Volume 1 A-E  (everyone's favorite new pink and turquoise encyc...
Posted by Praba on Tue, 28 Nov 2006 11:12:00 PST

Artist's Talk/Panel

This Saturday, September 30 I will be talking about my work as part of a panel at the De Young Museum.  If you haven't seen what I'm up to lately, come on by!!10:00 a.m.1:00 p.m.  ...
Posted by Praba on Tue, 26 Sep 2006 01:41:00 PST