Is Art Gendered? Oxford style debate as part of Who Counts? A Feminist Art Throwdown Garrick Theatre, Winnipeg, Canada. 2016

Is Art Gendered? Mentoring Artists for Women in the Arts. Moderator: Diana Thorneycroft. Teams: "art is gendered": Amy Fung and Seema Goel. "art is not gendered": Kristin Nelson and Praba Pilar

From Canadian Art Magazine article Possible Utopias in Winnipeg Feminist Art Symposium, by Alison Cooley:

WE REMEMBER THE SUN: 9/11/1973. San Francisco Art Institute. 2008

On September 11th, 2008 L.M. Bogad and Praba Pilar performed an original piece commemorating the anniversary of an act of terrorist aggression: the CIA-assisted military overthrow of Chile's democratically elected President, Salvador Allende. 

This rooftop ritual remembered the sun of hope and rebellion that shone around the world a generation ago, with its triumphs and failures, its precious solidarity and numerous betrayals.

CABARET MARX. Humane Slaughter Acts Performance Festival, Healdsburg, California. 2007.

Featuring: Praba Pilar and Erika Hannes with L.M. Bogad as MC, Joshua Short as TransGuero, and Anuj Vaidya as Interloper

Cabaret Marx is a performance presented at a recently decommissioned slaughterhouse during the U.S. war on Iraq. The performance stemmed from the quote, attributed to Groucho Marx: “Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.” We did burlesque with Ronald Reagan and George Bush, emcee Christian White, the TransGuero strip and the Interloper amongst guests. The ending included an audience sing along of Battle Hymn of the Republic with 2003 images of George Bush giving his mission accomplished speech, in front of a MISSION ACCOMPLISHED banner on aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln - when the war intensified and casualties increased for years after. The images flipped to show some of the burned, wounded and dead.

Included songs Circus Apocalypse and Shark Serenade by Vermillion Lies.

SPECFLIC 2.0, 2006

In 2006 I played the Infospherian character in SPEC.FLIC 2.0, a live, site-specific multimedia event written and directed by Adriene Jenik - exploring the intersection of digital media, books, and reading. SPECFLIC 2.0 portrays 2030 as a time in which audio-visual media dominate, and the next generation of students and scholars developed within this InfoSphere.

For this version, as part of the ISEA and ZERO ONE Festivals, I did a four hour improvisation during the public performance at the San Jose Public Library, MLK, Jr. branch, projected on screens outside the library.

Adriene Jenik’s collaborators on SPECFLIC 2.0 included performers Allison Janney, Richard Jenik, Praba Pilar and Melissa Lozano, science fiction author Rudy Rucker and IT developers Andrew Collins, Ganapathy Chockalingam & Luke Wylie.