What have I created?:

I’m resolute in creating.

I published and edited the monthly literary, culture, and politics magazines La Respuesta and Que Ondee Sola. My writings have featured in Intervenxions, 80 grados, and Claridad. A selection of my editorial work and essays were displayed at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for a special exhibition on local and diasporic activism.

I’ve performed in the Chicago-based theatrical production The Spark about 1960s Puerto Rican activism and directed the play La Resistencia, a guerrilla-comedy on gentrification. I’ve been invited to perform poetry in New York City, San Francisco, and Chicago. I presented my performance art and multimedia installations Dance of the Elephant (The Spirits’ Revenge) and 1845, Cádaver at Stanford University in California. I exhibited the multimedia installation Love from the Heavens at Instituto Sacatar in Bahia, Brazil as an Artist-In-Residence.

I’ve organized Afrorriqueñes, a four-day symposium for Black and Afro-Puerto Rican arts, scholarship, community organizing, and healing. I’ve provided social services and developed brand redesign and health campaigns for queer and HIV communities in Austin, Texas, New York City, and Chicago. I organized for community self-determination by founding the ¡Humboldt Park NO SE VENDE! / NOT FOR SALE! campaign and as a former board member of the affordable housing organizations Bickerdike / Humboldt Construction.

Recently, I developed the scholar and artist speaker series Caribbean Revelations. I continue to host the art media project Ricans on my mind as a part of The Puerto Rican School.

Stay updated on my latest projects and community engagement on my Events Archive and C urriculum vitae (C.V.).

Let’s collaborate! E-mail: xavierluisburgos@gmail.com / US+1-347-669-9421

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* Portrait photo by Julia Mendoza Friedman