ABSTRACT
Formed in the early 1970s by four Chicano artists from East Los Angeles, Asco set out to test the limits of art-its production, distribution, reception and exhibition. As a collaborative creative corps, the original members of ASCO,* Harry Gamboa, Jr, Gronk, Willie Herrón and Patssi Valdez, engaged in performance, public art and multimedia art as a response to the turbulent social, political period in Los Angeles and within the larger international context of alternative youth cultures and radical politics of the late 1960s and early 1970s.
