Border Art Clásicos (1990-2005): An Anthology of Collaborative Video Works by Guillermo Gómez-Peña

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Border Art Clásicos (1990-2005): An Anthology of Collaborative Video Works by Guillermo Gómez-Peña

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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Isaac Artenstein + 1 other Border Brujo 1990 \| 52:00 Sitting at an altar decorated with a kitsch collection of cultural fetish items, and wearing a border patrolman’s jacket decorated with buttons, bananas, beads, and shells, Gómez-Peña delivers a sly and bitter indictment of U.S. colonial attitudes... Collection: Single Titles Tags: latino/chicano, performance	Isaac Artenstein + 1 other Son of Border Crisis 1990 \| 16:00 In these seven short video performances directed by Isaac Artenstein, Gómez-Peña confronts Mexican-American culture clashes, stereotypes, and the Fourth World (immigrants). Speaking through a bullhorn or on the airwaves of mock-station Radio Latino... Collection: Single Titles Tags: latino/chicano, performance, poetry, post-colonialism
Guillermo Gómez... + 2 others El Naftazteca:... 1995 \| 58:00 Interrupting the nightly news in an act of guerrilla television, Gómez-Peña returns to the persona of a Chicano-Aztec veejay—"The Mexican who talks back, the illegal Mexican performance artist with state of the art technology"—to elaborate the... Collection: Single Titles Tags: future, indigenous, latino/chicano, performance	Gustavo Vazquez + 1 other The Great Mojado... 2001 \| 26:30 In The Great Mojado Invasion (The Second US - Mexico War), writer/performer Guillermo Gómez-Peña and filmmaker Gustavo Vazquez combine Chicano wit and political vision to create an ironic, post-millennial and postmodern look at the future of U.S./... Collection: Single Titles Tags: found footage, humor, latino/chicano, race
Guillermo Gómez... + 1 other Temple of Confessions 1996 \| 25:45 A documentation of a performance/installation. Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes created a fictional religion based on inter-cultural confessions. Exhibiting themselves in Plexiglas boxes as "end-of-the-century saints", the two performers... Collection: Single Titles Tags: documentation, latino/chicano, performance, religion/spirituality	Guillermo Gómez-Peña Borderstasis: A Video... 1998 \| 22:00 This strange, lyrical performance video diary is a millennial reflection on the impossibility to "reveal" one’s self in stormy times such as ours. The piece is also about the intricate connections between performance and everyday life; about... Collection: Single Titles Tags: autobiography, diary, family, language, latino/chicano, performance
Guillermo Gómez... + 1 other A Declaration of Poetic... 2005 \| 15:15 As a "Post-Mexican” performance artist operating out of the US for over 20 years, one of my conceptual obsessions has been to constantly reposition myself within the hegemonic maps. Whether this map is the Americas, the larger cartography of art, or... Collection: Single Titles Tags: documentary, latino/chicano, performance, poetry	Guillermo Gómez-Peña Los Videograffitis (A... 2004 \| 29:39 Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Gustavo Vazquez, Daniel Salazar, Patrick Litchy, Jethro Rothe-Kushel Collection: Single Titles Tags: language, latino/chicano
Guillermo Gómez... + 1 other The Brown Sheep Project 2003 \| 20:00 In 2002, my troupe, La Pocha Nostra and I were invited to conduct a workshop at Columbia College in Chicago with 15 students and faculty from different departments. At the end of the two-week workshop, we created a large-scale performance-... Collection: Single Titles Tags: body, documentary, latino/chicano, performance

Isaac Artenstein + 1 other Border Brujo 1990 \| 52:00 Sitting at an altar decorated with a kitsch collection of cultural fetish items, and wearing a border patrolman’s jacket decorated with buttons, bananas, beads, and shells, Gómez-Peña delivers a sly and bitter indictment of U.S. colonial attitudes... Collection: Single Titles Tags: latino/chicano, performance	Isaac Artenstein + 1 other Son of Border Crisis 1990 \| 16:00 In these seven short video performances directed by Isaac Artenstein, Gómez-Peña confronts Mexican-American culture clashes, stereotypes, and the Fourth World (immigrants). Speaking through a bullhorn or on the airwaves of mock-station Radio Latino... Collection: Single Titles Tags: latino/chicano, performance, poetry, post-colonialism
Guillermo Gómez... + 2 others El Naftazteca:... 1995 \| 58:00 Interrupting the nightly news in an act of guerrilla television, Gómez-Peña returns to the persona of a Chicano-Aztec veejay—"The Mexican who talks back, the illegal Mexican performance artist with state of the art technology"—to elaborate the... Collection: Single Titles Tags: future, indigenous, latino/chicano, performance	Gustavo Vazquez + 1 other The Great Mojado... 2001 \| 26:30 In The Great Mojado Invasion (The Second US - Mexico War), writer/performer Guillermo Gómez-Peña and filmmaker Gustavo Vazquez combine Chicano wit and political vision to create an ironic, post-millennial and postmodern look at the future of U.S./... Collection: Single Titles Tags: found footage, humor, latino/chicano, race
Guillermo Gómez... + 1 other Temple of Confessions 1996 \| 25:45 A documentation of a performance/installation. Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes created a fictional religion based on inter-cultural confessions. Exhibiting themselves in Plexiglas boxes as "end-of-the-century saints", the two performers... Collection: Single Titles Tags: documentation, latino/chicano, performance, religion/spirituality	Guillermo Gómez-Peña Borderstasis: A Video... 1998 \| 22:00 This strange, lyrical performance video diary is a millennial reflection on the impossibility to "reveal" one’s self in stormy times such as ours. The piece is also about the intricate connections between performance and everyday life; about... Collection: Single Titles Tags: autobiography, diary, family, language, latino/chicano, performance
Guillermo Gómez... + 1 other A Declaration of Poetic... 2005 \| 15:15 As a "Post-Mexican” performance artist operating out of the US for over 20 years, one of my conceptual obsessions has been to constantly reposition myself within the hegemonic maps. Whether this map is the Americas, the larger cartography of art, or... Collection: Single Titles Tags: documentary, latino/chicano, performance, poetry	Guillermo Gómez-Peña Los Videograffitis (A... 2004 \| 29:39 Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Gustavo Vazquez, Daniel Salazar, Patrick Litchy, Jethro Rothe-Kushel Collection: Single Titles Tags: language, latino/chicano
Guillermo Gómez... + 1 other The Brown Sheep Project 2003 \| 20:00 In 2002, my troupe, La Pocha Nostra and I were invited to conduct a workshop at Columbia College in Chicago with 15 students and faculty from different departments. At the end of the two-week workshop, we created a large-scale performance-... Collection: Single Titles Tags: body, documentary, latino/chicano, performance

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