UCLA Center for the Study of Women

The sound of electronic beats and a video projection of a swirl of shifting colors and shapes set the tone as a woman dressed all in white—from her suit to her boots—walked onto the stage and began to read a manifesto. Gigi Otálvaro-Hormillosa, also known as the Devil Bunny in Bondage, is a San Francisco– based performance and video artist, activist, curator, and percussionist. She hails originally from Miami and received her B.A. from Brown University, where she created her own major entitled “Hybridity and Performance.” Since then, she has worked with various nonprofit arts organizations as well as HIV-prevention service agencies and has collaborated with artists including Pearl Ubungen, Guillermo Gomez-Peña, Elia Arce, and Afia Walking Tree.