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Calit2 Researcher as Cesar Chavez [from life.calit2.net]

By Doug Ramsey

We're a bit late on this story... but Visual Arts professor Ricardo Dominguez (in blue at left) had a unique experience in July, when he portrayed Cesar Chavez in a re-enactment of a landmark speech by the Chicano leader. It was the fourth event of the Port Huron Project, a series of re-enactments organized by artist Mark Tribe, part of Creative Time's 2008 public art initiative, "Democracy in America: The National Campaign". It was held in Exposition Park in South L.A., site of the original speech.

According to Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight, "At the end of Dominguez's second performance of the Chavez speech, the crowd spontaneously erupted into a loud chant of "Si! Se puede! Si! Se puede!" Under the circumstances, it resonated as an Obama moment." Dominguez was also featured in a preview in the LA Times. The event was filmed and should be available shortly on YouTube and blip.tv. The program will also play on the MTV Jumbotron in New York's Times Square in mid-September.

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