Mexican Psychotic DECEMBER 3RD 5-7PM

Join us for our CEE Fellow Year-End Event "Mexican Psychotic ", an experimental film led by Ricardo Bracho, followed by a panel discussion with an exciting array of panelists on Dec 3rd at 5 pm.​

Mexican Psychotic is an experimental video-in-progress on the life, art, and mythos of artist Martín Ramírez, who spent 30 years drawing beautiful works while incarcerated in California mental asylums. The film team includes Richardo Bracho as writer and director, Oludare Marcelle as lead editor/animator, Emily Dunlop as assistant editor, Nicholas Plante as assistant editor, and voiceover director.
The screening will take place on Dec 3rd at 5 pm at the Rainey Auditorium, Penn Museum (it will also be live-streamed for remote audiences) followed by a discussion with CEE Fellow Ricardo A. Bracho and a panel of scholars and artists on Ramírez’s work and contemporary issues of incarceration, mental health, and artistry.
The discussion panel will include Dr. Toorjo Ghose, Dr. Jennifer S. Ponce de León, James "Yaya" Hough, Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood, and Aaron Alarcon-Bowen.
Dr. Toorjo Ghose is an Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice whose work focuses on structural interventions in the areas of incarceration, substance use, homelessness, and HIV, both at the domestic and international levels.
Dr. Jennifer S. Ponce de León is an interdisciplinary scholar and Associate Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania, whose research focuses on cultural production and antisystemic movements in the Americas since the 1960s and critical theory.
James "Yaya" Hough is the inaugural artist in residence for the district attorney’s office of Philadelphia.
Dr. Nicole R. Fleetwood is the inaugural James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication in the Steinhardt School at New York University.
Aaron Alarcon-Bowen is the Executive Director of the Community Services Bureau in Concord, California.

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