Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Gómez-Peña Unplugged (eBook, ePUB)

Texts on Live Art, Social Practice and Imaginary Activism (2008-2020)
Redaktion: Tramposch, Emma; Gómez, Balitrónica

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Gómez-Peña Unplugged is an anthology of recent writings from Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a figure who stands alone as unique and groundbreaking in the history of performance art, and as the Artistic Director of transdisciplinary performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 364
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000263343
• Artikelnr.: 60763683

Autorenporträt

Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and artistic director of the performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Born in Mexico City, he moved to the US in 1978, and since 1995, his two homes have been San Francisco and Mexico City. His performance work and 21 books have contributed to the debates on cultural, generational, and gender diversity, border culture and North-South relations.

Emma Tramposch is Managing Director of interdisciplinary arts organization La Pocha Nostra and Curator of the Living Archives. As a producer, curator, writer and archivist she has been working closely with Guillermo Gómez-Peña since 2007. She is based in San Francisco.

Balitrónica Gómez is a cyber-feminist poet, performance artist, and radical pedagogue. Born and raised on the border of San Diego/Tijuana, she has been touring with Gomez-Peña since 2013 and is a member of his international performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.

Elaine A. Peña is an Associate Professor of American Studies at George Washington University. Her books include Performing Piety: Making Space Sacred with the Virgin of Guadalupe (2011) and ¡Viva George! Celebrating Washington's Birthday at the U.S.-Mexico Border (2020).

William Stark is a lecturer at the University of Rhode Island. He directed La Pluma for Brown University's Department of Hispanic Studies, and his articles and essays have appeared in publications such as MLA's Options for Teaching Series; Contextos: Estudios de Humanidades y Ciencias; and Border-Lines, the Journal of the Latino Research Center at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Inhaltsangabe

Introductory Texts
1 Performance Art vs. The "Art World"
2 Highly Personal Writings
3 Imaginary Activism
4 Touring in Times of War and/or Performing Against Racism
5 On Gentrification and Other Forms of Ethnic Cleansing
6 Identity Politics Gone Wrong
7 On the Politics of Language
8 Philosophical Tantrums
9 Ending of Book