Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2002
Publisher
NYU Press
Abstract
Guillermo Gómez-Peña is one of the few Mexican performance artists who, since he came to the United States in 1978, has been able to create and explore the merging of visual language and text in the complexities of cross-cultural identities through controversial issues. Labeled by some as one of the most significant performance artists of the late twentieth century, he uses multiple media: video, performance, installation art, and bilingual poetry. In his "Performance Diaries" he explains the process of performance in his work as "a vast conceptual territory where my eclectic and ever-changing ideas and the ideas of my collaborators can be integrated into a coherent system and be put into practice. It's radical theory turned into praxis through movement, ritual, gesture, sound, light and spoken text" (Gómez-Peña 2000, 7) .
Chapter of
Latino/a Popular Culture
Editor
Michelle Habell-Pallán and Mary Romero
Recommended Citation
Velasco, J. (2002). Performing Multiple Identities: Guillermo Gómez-Peña and His Dangerous Border Crossings. In M. Habell-Pallán & M. Romero (Eds.), Latino/a Popular Culture. NYU Press.
Comments
Copyright © 2002 NYU Press. Reprinted with permission.