Overview

Full Product Details

9780367219246

Table of Contents

Reviews

The Mad Mex strikes again! Gomez-Pena is more relevant than ever. This anthology is his most recent culmination of critical, poetic, and performance texts dating back to the 1990s. As such, it shines new light on old problems that continue to haunt the American imaginary. As a performance artist, poet, shaman, and fearless cultural broker, Gomez-Pena reboots and reframes--in order to uproot and upend--ongoing global and local debates. Personal missives, open letters, critical interviews, and poetic musings on culture, performance, and politics, reveal an urgent and timeless message for any and all readers concerned with the human condition. A must read for artists, educators, politicians, social workers, city planners, hedge fund analysts, and stockbrokers. --William Stark, PhD Visiting Assistant Professor Hispanic Studies, Director of La Pluma, Spanish Writing Center, Brown University He's one of the handful of great performance artists in America today. -Peter Sellars Gomez-Pena's work is among the most powerful examples of intercultural performance. -Richard Shechner, American Theatre Magazine There's no question that the brilliance of Guillermo Gomez-Pena's collaborative performance works has to do with precisely this mode of confrontational excess and humor. Ultimately, it's my whiteness (not their colored bodies, displayed on different podiums across the exhibition space) that is on trial. -Amelia Jones Gomez-Pena is magnificent, melodramatic, robustly hilarious and precisely, exquisitely witty...I emerge from his performances somewhat dazed. -Lucy Lippard His award-winning solos combine languages Spanish, English, Spanglish, Inglenol, Nahuatl, wild theatrics and guerrilla satire to convey a new internationalism, a borderless ethos. -Jan Breslauer, L.A. Times Gomez-Pena is a wizard of language. -The Chicago Tribune A cross between Oscar Wilde and Lenny Bruce, witty and gritty and brilliant, Gomez-Pena stretches language to the breaking point, coining words and code shifting at will... Anyone interested in contemporary performance theory should read his books. For the rest of us, it is a cultural roller-coaster ride with decidedly satirical seat belts. -Publishers Weekly

"""The Mad Mex strikes again! Gómez-Peña is more relevant than ever. This anthology is his most recent culmination of critical, poetic, and performance texts dating back to the 1990s. As such, it shines new light on old problems that continue to haunt the ""American"" imaginary. As a performance artist, poet, shaman, and fearless cultural broker, Gómez-Peña reboots and reframes––in order to uproot and upend––ongoing global and local debates. Personal missives, open letters, critical interviews, and poetic musings on culture, performance, and politics, reveal an urgent and timeless message for any and all readers concerned with the human condition. A must read for artists, educators, politicians, social workers, city planners, hedge fund analysts, and stockbrokers."" ––William Stark, PhD Visiting Assistant Professor Hispanic Studies, Director of La Pluma, Spanish Writing Center, Brown University ""He's one of the handful of great performance artists in America today."" -Peter Sellars ""Gomez-Peña's work is among the most powerful examples of intercultural performance."" -Richard Shechner, American Theatre Magazine ""There’s no question that the brilliance of Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s collaborative performance works has to do with precisely this mode of confrontational excess and humor. Ultimately, it’s my ""whiteness"" (not their colored bodies, displayed on different podiums across the exhibition space) that is on trial.""-Amelia Jones ""Gómez-Peña is magnificent, melodramatic, robustly hilarious and precisely, exquisitely witty...I emerge from his performances somewhat dazed."" -Lucy Lippard His award-winning solos combine languages Spanish, English, Spanglish, Ingleñol, Nahuatl, wild theatrics and guerrilla satire to convey a new internationalism, a borderless ethos. —Jan Breslauer, L.A. Times Gómez-Peña is a wizard of language. —The Chicago Tribune ""A cross between Oscar Wilde and Lenny Bruce, witty and gritty and brilliant, Gómez-Peña stretches language to the breaking point, coining words and code shifting at will... Anyone interested in contemporary performance theory should read his books. For the rest of us, it is a cultural roller-coaster ride with decidedly satirical seat belts."" -Publishers Weekly"

Author Information

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.

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available