Marco Guagnelli is an interdisciplinary artist from Mexico City, based in Chicago, working in the intersections with Performance, Socially Engaged Art, and Fashion. His engagement is with the nature/human relationship, civil rights, and gender. This has been manifested in his 7-year experience teaching within an academic context, prisons, migrant shelters, and with youth in violent contexts across the Mexican territory and more recently in Chicago. His practice is rooted in the principles and values that art holds as a means of social betterment. His performance-based approach centers on critically understanding how violence becomes a force that conditions bodies to act in a certain way and how the reconfiguration of bodies can occur performatively and within a communal context to redefine their significance. He has been developing the concept of somatic garments and how experience can be transferred and expanded through the clothing we wear. He delves into the metaphor of the skin as a boundary and its permeability. This exploration centers on the analogy of the body as a house that encapsulates the self within.