RECORD
Museo de la Identidad Fetich-Izada
- Event Title:
- Museo de la Identidad Fetich-Izada
- Video Identifier:
- 547d7wsz
- Video URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/2333.1/547d7wsz
- Video Duration:
- 0:46:39
- Collection Title:
- From Aztec to High-Tech : the performance video collections of Guillermo Gómez-Peña & La Pocha Nostra, 1985-2004
- Alternate Title:
- Museum of Fetishized Identity
- Event Location:
- Museo del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
- Event Description:
- Unedited documentation of a Pocha Nostra interactive performance in the Museo del Chopo, Mexico City. After an intensive workshop with 15 local performance/visual artists, curators, DJ's and musicians, the troupe performs an 'experimental curiosity cabinet', a sort of living museum where participants exhibit constructed 'hybrid personas' based on their own complex identities and personal sense of race and gender. These 'cultural especimens' compose a diorama of fetishized identities, addressing issues of appropriation of hybridity by corporate multiculturalism. La Pocha Nostra (www.pochanostra.com) is an ever-morphing trans-disciplinary arts organization, founded in 1993 by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Roberto Sifuentes, and Nola Mariano in California. The objective was to formally conceptualize Gómez-Peña's collaborations with other performance artists. It provides a base (and forum) for a loose network of rebel artists from various disciplines, generations and ethnic backgrounds, whose common denominator is the desire to cross and erase dangerous borders between art and politics, practice and theory, artist and spectator. As of June 2006, members include performance artists Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Violeta Luna, Michelle Ceballos, and Roberto Sifuentes; curators Gabriela Salgado and Orlando Britto; and over thirty associates worldwide in countries such as Mexico, Spain, the UK, and Australia. Projects range from performance solos and duets to large-scale performance installations including video, photography, audio, and cyber-art. La Pocha collaborates across national borders, race, gender and generations. Their collaborative model functions both as an act of citizen diplomacy and as a means to create ‘ephemeral communities’ of like-minded rebels. The basic premise of these collaborations is founded on an ideal: If we learn to cross borders on stage, we may learn how to do so in larger social spheres. La Pocha strives to eradicate myths of purity and dissolve borders surrounding culture, ethnicity, gender, language, and métier. These are radical acts.
- Event Date:
- 2003 May
- Language:
- English Spanish Spanglish
- Event Type:
- Performance
- Subject:
- Gómez-Peña, Guillermo Pocha Nostra Performance art Border art Reverse anthropology Multimedia interactive living museum Performance/Installation
- Copyright Holder:
- Guillermo Gómez-Peña & La Pocha Nostra
- Director:
- Guillermo Gómez-Peña
- Performer:
- Guillermo Gómez-Peña Violeta Luna Juan Ybarra Michelle Ceballos
- Producer:
- Guillermo Gómez-Peña La Pocha Nostra Museo del Chopo
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Museo de la Identidad Fetich-Izada", Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library, NYU Libraries
- Reference Link:
- https://info663-fa23.github.io/team2/items/547d7wsz.html