WHAP! stands for the “West Hollywood Aesthetics and Politics” lecture series. Launched in Fall 2011, this series is co-hosted by the City of West Hollywood and the Aesthetics and Politics MA program at CalArts. “Re-assembling Tijuana” will be led by Rene Peralta, architect and urbanist, and associate professor at Woodbury University in San Diego, and will feature three other guests: Adriana Trujillo and José Inerzia, of the media collective POLEN; and cultural theorist Josh Kun as they discuss a re-assembling of the Tijuana region’s identity through critical and selfreferential cultural praxis in film, theory, and architecture.  Admission is free.  Validated parking available in the 5-story public parking structure. For more information visit http://aestheticsandpolitics.calarts.edu/lecture-series/whap.