In association with the third annual Perform Chinatown festival, Actual Size Los Angeles is pleased to present The Hook, an arm wrestling championship featuring music from DJ Say. Registration for the championship opens July 6th. Competitors are encouraged to register via email at info@actualsizela.com or they may sign up the day of the competition. Contest entry is free, $2 beers, $4 bratwurst.

Sayre Gomez (b. 1982, Chicago, Illinois) currently lives and works in Los Angeles and holds a B.F.A from the School of Art Institute of Chicago (2005) and an M.F.A. from CalArts (2008). Recent solo exhibitions include Self Expression or Fog and Other Works at Kavi Gupta Gallery Berlin, DE, and Self Expression at 1430 Contemporary in Portland, Or. Recent group exhibitions include ZZYZX at La Cienegas Projects, Los Angeles, California Dreamin’, curated by Fred Hoffman as part of Arte Portugal 2010, Other People’s Projects at White Columns in New York, and The Awful Parenthesis curated by Aram Moshayedi at Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles.