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# The History of a Major LA Trading Port Surfaces in a New Performance
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/the-history-of-a-major-la-trading-port-surfaces-in-a-new-performance/
- Published: 2017-12-13T15:50:10.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:11:22.000Z
- Description: A performance investigates San Pedro’s history as a major international sea port, and the effect that the North American Free Trade Agreement has had on LA's brown and queer communities.
- Author: Matt Stromberg
- Tags: Art, Angel’s Gate Cultural Center, Events, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-24 07:30(2016, 2017, part 3)

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Sebastian Hernandez, “Puesto Pues No” Nov. 30, 2017 (photo by Amina Cruz)

The [PST: LA/LA](http://www.pacificstandardtime.org/?ref=hyperallergic.com) exhibition [*Coastal/Border*](http://angelsgateart.org/gallery/coastalborder/?ref=hyperallergic.com) at the Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro is comprised of a series of performances and installations focused on the coastal region’s status not only as a port of entry, but also as a border. These have included Edgar Fabián Frías’s “[Give Us Home Spider,”](http://edgarfabianfrias.org/CreativeProjects/index.php?/category/48&ref=hyperallergic.com) which overlaid sacred journeys undertaken by the Wixarika people onto Southern California trade routes; Jimena Sarno’s “[from sea to shining sea (FSTSS)](http://angelsgateart.org/classes/from-sea-to-shining-sea-2/?ref=hyperallergic.com),” a site-specific choir performance which responded to the area’s military history; and Dany Naierman’s “[Port Capa](http://www.pacificstandardtime.org/en/events/event/view/port-capa-performance-dany-naierman?ref=hyperallergic.com),” a multi-media installation which unearthed the site’s layered history through a faux-field trip, puppetry, and video.

This Sunday, artist and dancer [Sebastian Hernandez](http://alwaysfeelingsomething.weebly.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com) will stage the exhibition’s closing performance, “[FTZ (Foreign/Free Trade Zone)](http://angelsgateart.org/sebastian-hernandez-performance-dec-17/?ref=hyperallergic.com).” The research-based work will investigate through movement and sound San Pedro’s history as a major international sea port, and the effect that the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has had on LA, specifically brown and queer communities.

**When:** Sunday, December 17, 1pm  
**Where:** Angels Gate Cultural Center (3601 S. Gaffey St., San Pedro, California)

*More info* [*here*](http://angelsgateart.org/sebastian-hernandez-performance-dec-17/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*