Below the Underground: Renegade Art and Action in 1990s Mexico

"Below the Underground: Renegade Art and Action in 1990s Mexico / Más abajo que el underground: arte renegado y acción en el México de los noven" was an exhibition at the Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, from October 15, 2017 through January 28, 2018.

The exhibition examines diverse independent artist initiatives – including ad hoc street performances and interventions, clubs, collaboratively produced ‘zines, archives and collections, pirate radio programs, and more. The project also references pronounced divisions of class, race, and gender, with art objects themselves the tangible outcomes of many different conditions of creating, living, and experimenting within the same place. "Below the Underground" was organized by the Armory as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, an initiative of the Getty with arts institutions across Southern California. Major support for the exhibition, companion publication and related programming is provided through grants from the Getty Foundation. Additional support for this project comes from the Jumex Foundation.