The author of this book is a performance artist and the represents his artistic journey through globalization, the commodification of identity, and the continuing culture wars. His writings, like his performances, point towards a borderless future and a poetics of hybridity. This anthology of his performance chronicles, diary entries, poems, essays, and texts, sheds light on the life and work of this migrant provocateur.
The author of this book is a performance artist and the represents his artistic journey through globalization, the commodification of identity, and th...
The author of this book is a performance artist and the represents his artistic journey through globalization, the commodification of identity, and the continuing culture wars. His writings, like his performances, point towards a borderless future and a poetics of hybridity. This anthology of his performance chronicles, diary entries, poems, essays, and texts, sheds light on the life and work of this migrant provocateur.
The author of this book is a performance artist and the represents his artistic journey through globalization, the commodification of identity, and th...
Guillermo Gomez-Pena has spent many years developing his unique style of performance-activism; his theatricalizations of postcolonial theory. In Ethno-Techno: Writings on Performance, Activism and Pedagogy, he pushes the boundaries still further, exploring what's left for artists to do in a post-9/11 repressive culture of what he calls 'the mainstream bizarre'. Over forty-five photos document his artistic experiments and the text not only explores and confronts his political and philosophical parameters; it offers groundbreaking insights into his, and his company's, methods of...
Guillermo Gomez-Pena has spent many years developing his unique style of performance-activism; his theatricalizations of postcolonial theory. In E...
Guillermo Gomez-Pena has spent many years developing his unique style of performance-activism; his theatricalizations of postcolonial theory. In Ethno-Techno: Writings on Performance, Activism and Pedagogy, he pushes the boundaries still further, exploring what's left for artists to do in a post-9/11 repressive culture of what he calls 'the mainstream bizarre'. Over forty-five photos document his artistic experiments and the text not only explores and confronts his political and philosophical parameters; it offers groundbreaking insights into his, and his company's, methods of...
Guillermo Gomez-Pena has spent many years developing his unique style of performance-activism; his theatricalizations of postcolonial theory. In E...
The New World Border is a carnivalesque inversion of ethnic and geo-political ideology, a disorienting free-fall into the space between cultures, and a head-on collision with the real and imagined borders that separate North and South.
Hero of a thousand syncretic faces - intercultural interpreter, reverse anthropologist, experimental linguist, and political artist of the first order - Guillermo Gomez-Pena has won international acclaim for his efforts to create a hybrid culture and to articulate a borderless ethos.
In this new collection of essays, poems, and performance...
The New World Border is a carnivalesque inversion of ethnic and geo-political ideology, a disorienting free-fall into the space between cult...
"Wicked, observant comedy interspersed with keenly acted monologues that make your heart ache." -Miami Herald " The] Latino comedy trio simultaneously makes mincemeat out of American cultural icons and skewers the hell out of their own ethnic heritage - all the while showing the links between the two. This brilliant team of writer/performers offers artful, intelligent work that deserves the rapt attention of large and diverse audiences." -Back Stage West "Humorous, cutting and touching." -New York Times "Important social satire for these urgent...
"Wicked, observant comedy interspersed with keenly acted monologues that make your heart ache." -Miami Herald " The] Latino comedy trio sim...
