Pedro Lasch
Duke University

Bio

Pedro Lasch was born in Mexico City in 1975 and lived there until he moved to New York City when he was nineteen. Since 1999 he has focused on creating multiple art initiatives that bridge the local concerns and interests of recent Latino immigrants in Queens and other boroughs with the current state of international politics.
A preoccupation with the theory and practice of socially engaged art has led Lasch to develop his work as a series of public interventions within the flow of the everyday. These interactions or temporal rearrangements form a chain of open routines that develop within specific social situations originating mostly outside of the conventional art context. His various roles as artist, educator, activist, cultural organizer and producer should be understood as building upon one another to form an interdisciplinary practice.