Conversations across borders : a performance artist converses with theorists, curators, activists and fellow artists / Guillermo Gómez-Peña ; edited by Laura Levin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gómez-Peña, Guillermo.

Contributor:

Levin, Laura.

Series:

Enactments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gómez-Peña, Guillermo--Interviews.

Gómez-Peña, Guillermo.

Performance artists--Interviews.

Performance artists.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

xiii, 360 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York ; Calcutta : Seagull Books, 2011.

Summary:

For the last 15 years, performance artist and writer Guillermo Gomez-Pena has led a series of ongoing conversations with cultural luminaries from around the world. These dialogues with theorists, curators, activists and fellow artists-such as Lisa Wolford Wylam, Tim Miller, Felipe Ehrenberg, Orlando Britto Jinorio, Silvana Straw and Rafael Lozano-Hemmer among others-explore the terrain between art and theory. In Conversations Across Borders, Gomez-Pena has gathered the most challenging and captivating of these conversations, revealing their significant contribution to key debates within the international art world.

Both bold and humorous, these conversations address issues of timely concern to artists, including border culture, new technologies, urban hipsterism and globalization gone wrong. Conversations Across Borders explores dialogue as a performative act, as a radical space for initiating and testing the boundaries of critical culture. Together, these texts propose a distinct set of critical practices that are invigorated by the endangered art of conversation.

Laura Levin is an Associate Professor of Theatre at York University, Toronto. She is Editor-in-Chief of Canadian Theatre Review and Editor of Theatre and Performance in Toronto (2011). --Book Jacket.

Contents:

Performing in the zones of silence / with Gabriela Salgado

Chihuahuas, rockeros and zoot suits : notes on multiculturalism without people of colour / with Josh Kun

Post-México en X-paña / with Orlando Britto Jinorio

How does one reach Manchuria? / with Felipe Ehrenberg

Postcards from Alaska : a chilling tale of performance artists in the snow / with Silvana Straw

Tech-ila sunrise (.txt con Sangrita) / with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Theatricalizations of postcolonial theory / with Eduardo Mendieta

In search of a radical pedagogy / with Laura Levin

Pose and poseur : the racial politics of Guillermo Gómez-Peña's photo-performances / with Jennifer A. González

There goes the virtual neighbourhood / with Lisa Wolford Wylam

The city as a Bohemian theme park / with Gretchen Coombs

Letter for the year of the snake / with Rebecca Solnit

Aztechnology : racism in radiolandia / with Roberto Sifuentes and Matthew Finch

Tim Miller and Guillermo Gómez-Peña vs homeland insecurity / with Tim Miller

El Mad Mex responds to the question : is the performance field racist? / with Friend X

Navigating the minefields of utopia / with Lisa Wolford Wylam

Away from the surveillance cameras of the art world : strategies for collaboration and community activism / with Roberto Sifuentes and Lisa Wolford Wylam

Agreeing to disagree / with Elaine Katzenberger

Encounters with the right / with Radical Nativist and Republican Barbie

Multiple journeys : the life and work of Guillermo Gómez-Peña.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-352).

ISBN:

9781906497507

1906497508

OCLC:

752823817

Publisher Number:

99946104523