René Garcia explores current political themes through performance, video, audio, installations and public art.  A Mexican artist born in California, his current project, Therapeutic Violence explores the multiple dimensions of U.S. colonialist ideology as it capitalizes on the terrified and terrorized human body.  He is a founding member of the San Francisco Mission school collaborative Los Cybrids: La Raza TechnoCritica that was active from 1999-2004.  His polymedia-performance 9-1-BUY-1 evokes the tragic day of 9/11/2001 to humorously explore the launch of a new product known as “Terrorism” and a new industry branded “Homeland Security.”