BirúPirúPerú brings together 27 video poems, 22 visual poems on paper, 11 sound poems, 10 artists’ books, and 2 works of multimedia poetry performance, all developed in Perú between 2000 and 2015. The exhibited works explore diverse themes of contemporary Peruvian society such as migration, gender, identity, urban resistance, labor and economic precarity, political violence, marginalization, environmental conflict, language and its representations, and love.

The list of participating artists, poets, collectives, presses, and art laboratories includes:

José Aburto • Luis Alvarado • Ánima Lisa • Luis Arispe • José María Arguedas • Gloria Arteaga • Violeta Barrientos • Laura Batticani • Virginia Benavides • Karen Bernedo • Luis Alberto Castillo • Teresa Cabrera • Mónica Carrillo • Miguel Colleti • Omar Córdova • Roxana Crisólogo •  Mauricio Delgado Castillo • Domingo de Ramos • Florentino Díaz • El Círculo • Carlos Estela • Diego Fernández Stoll • Lucía Fernández • Carolina O. Fernández • Gabriela Flores • Rocío Fuentes • Miguel Ildefonso • Francisco Jurado • Diego Lazarte • Luisa Fernanda Lindo • Doda Lingua • Christians Luna • Carlos García • Willy Gómez Migliaro • Victoria Guerrero • Frido Martin • Eduardo Menéndez • Cecilia Noriega-Bozovich • Carlos Oquendo de Amat • Tilsa Otta •  Renato Pita • Cecilia Podestá • Jorge Polar • Michael Prado • Daniel Sánchez Ortiz • Roger Santiváñez • Patricia Saucedo • Rocío Silva-Santisteban • Sandra Suazo • Fermín Tangüis • Cesar Vallejo • Adalberto Varallanos • Kreit Vargas • Pedro Venturo • Santiago Vera • Rodrigo Vera • Ale Wendorff • Rodolfo Ybarra • Álbum del Universo Bakterial • Mano Falsa • Máquina Purísima • Tranvías Editores • Yanapuma Producciones

BirúPirúPerú is organized around the collective projects Poéticas Visuales del Exilio [Visual Poetics of Exile], Poéticas Visuales de la Resistencia [Visual Poetics of Resistence], and Katatay [Tremble], all video poetry; Irse de Lengua [Ramble On], sound poetry; Ánima Lisa, a multimedia poetry performance collaborative, La Resistencia de los Cuerpos [Bodies in Resistance], visual poems on paper; and Colección Mutante [Mutant Collection], artists’ books and book objects.

While some of the projects have been presented separately in cities around the globe, poet and publisher Giancarlo Huapaya has brought them together for the first time in this groundbreaking exhibition.

Exhibitions are displayed in the Jeremy Ingalls Gallery of the Poetry Center.