Border Art Clásicos (1990-2005): An Anthology of Collaborative Video Works by Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
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Collection: Box Sets
Tags: Activism, Body, Consumer culture, Documentation, Future, Latino/Chicano, Media Analysis, Performance
An Anthology of Collaborative Works by Guillermo Gómez-Peña
This "conceptual package" of collaborative videos and writings by leading theorists is a unique opportunity for students, artists and educators to explore the psyche, experimental aesthetics, activist ethos and spiritual cosmology of legendary rebel artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña.
With filmmakers:
Isaac Artenstein, Adriene Jenik, Patrick Litchy, Jethro Rothe-Kushel, Daniel Salazar, Henry Sayre & Sandy Brooke, Roberto Sifuentes, Liz Singer, Gustavo Vazquez
The box set is accompanied by a booklet with the following essays:
- Guillermo Gómez-Peña: Sophisticated Seduction -- Carol Becker
- Notes on the fluid borders between performance and video -- Guillermo Gómez-Peña
- Guillermo Gómez-Peña and the 'Reversal of the Anthropological Gaze' -- Amelia Jones
- Theatricalizations of Postcolonial Theory -- Eduardo Mendieta
- Chicalango Border Crossings: How I Met Gómez-Peña and Became Involved with His Border-Crossing Cartography -- Antonio Prieto-Stambaugh
- Border Teachings -- Henry Sayre
- Guillermo Gómez-Peña, INTERCULTURAL WARRIOR -- Richard Schechner
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Collections: Single TitlesTags: Latino/Chicano, Performance
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Collections: Single TitlesTags: Latino/Chicano, Performance, Poetry, Post-colonialism
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Collections: Single TitlesTags: Future, Indigenous, Latino/Chicano, Performance
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Collections: Single TitlesTags: Found Footage, Humor, Latino/Chicano, Race
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Collections: Single TitlesTags: Documentation, Latino/Chicano, Performance, Religion/Spirituality
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Collections: Single TitlesTags: Autobiography, Diary, Family, Language, Latino/Chicano, Performance
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Collections: Single TitlesTags: Language, Latino/Chicano
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Collections: Single TitlesTags: Body, Documentary, Latino/Chicano, Performance
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