Work Guillermo Gómez-Peña

1 work

1.1 la pocha nostra
1.2 collaboration coco fusco
1.3 additional collaborations

work

from 1983 until 1990, gómez-peña lived in san diego/tijuana border region. of artistic , intellectual work concerns interface between north , south (mexico , u.s.), border culture , politics of brown body. original interdisciplinary arts projects , books explore borders, physical, cultural , otherwise, between 2 countries , between mainstream u.s. , various latino cultures: u.s.-mexico border itself, immigration, cross-cultural , hybrid identities, , confrontation , misunderstandings between cultures, languages , races. gómez-peña founding member of border arts workshop/taller de arte fronterizo, international arts collective based @ centro cultural de la raza in san diego.

his artwork , literature explore politics of language, side effects of globalization, extreme culture, culture of violence , new technologies latino perspective. patron of london-based live art development agency , senior fellow of hemispheric institute of performance , politics (nyu).

la pocha nostra

gómez-peña artistic director of international performance troupe la pocha nostra. la pocha nostra trans-disciplinary arts organization provides support network , forum artists of various disciplines, generations , ethnic backgrounds. la pocha devoted erasing borders between art , politics, art practice , theory, artist , spectator. la pocha nostra has intensely focused on notion of collaboration across national borders, race, gender , generations act of radical citizen diplomacy , means create temporary communities of rebel artists. every year, la pocha conducts summer , winter performance art school in pocha’s radical pedagogy (a performance methodology has been developed during last 10 years) shared international group of rebel artists.

gómez-peña s work la pocha nostra has been presented across us, canada, mexico, latin america, europe, russia, australia , south africa. in recent years, troupe has presented work @ tate modern (london), arnolfini (bristol), guggenheim museum (new york), lacma (los angeles), house of world cultures , volksbuhne (berlin), macba (barcelona), el museo de la ciudad (mexico city) , encuentros hemisféricos in lima, rio de janeiro, belo horizonte, buenos aires , são paulo. gomez-peña , la pocha nostra have participated in following biennales: havana,the withney, sydney, liverpool, thessaloniki , mercosur. troupe’s photo performances in permanent collection of daros foundation (zurich) , galeria artificios (gran canaria).

collaboration coco fusco

gómez-peña traveled internationally 2 years fellow artist coco fusco performing year of white bear , 2 undiscovered amerindians visit west (1992–1994), satirical performance piece in 2 artists exhibited in cage in museums , @ arts festivals authentic amerindians undiscovered island off mexican coast. pair dressed in hodgepodge of ethnic drag , bits of americana such baseball cap , grass skirt in case of fusco, , face paint , leopard-skin wrestling mask gómez-peña. coco fusco described piece satirical commentary both on quincentenary celebrations , on history of practice of exhibiting human beings africa, asia, , latin america in europe , united states in zoos, theaters, , museums. during run, critically acclaimed piece performed @ major museums , arts festivals in new york, washington, dc, los angeles, chicago , madrid, spain, amongst others.

the year of white bear accompanied performance piece entitled new world (b)order, chicago reader art critic carmela rago called denouement of performance installation @ field museum; using irony , humor gomez-pena , fusco allowed contemplate next step--being part of world border culture, reclaiming our humanity , our hearts. artists worked filmmaker paula heredia create couple in cage: guatianaui odyssey, documentary records several performances year of white bear viewer reactions work.

additional collaborations

besides working in ongoing basis la pocha nostra (emma tramposch, roberto sifuentes, michele ceballos, violeta luna, dani d emilia, saul garcia lopez, erica mott , daniel brittany chavez). gómez-peña member of san diego-based border arts workshop/taller de arte fronterizo (baw/taf) art collective included artist emily hicks, bertha jottar, richard lou, victor ochoa, robert sanchez, michael schnorr , rocío weiss. gómez-peña has done collaborative art projects , james luna, reverend billy, tania bruguera, richard montoya , sara shelton mann.