Guillermo Gómez-Peña has spent many years developing his unique style of performance-activism; his theatricalizations of postcolonial theory. In Ethno-Techno: Writings on Performance, Activism and Pedagogy, he pushes the boundaries still further, exploring what's left for artists to do in a post-9/11 repressive culture of what he calls 'the mainstream bizarre'. Over forty-five photos document his artistic experiments and the text not only explores and confronts his political and philosophical parameters; it offers groundbreaking insights into his, and his company's, methods of production, development and teaching. The result is an extraordinary and inspiring glimpse into the life and work of one of the most daring, innovative and challenging performance artists of our age.

Ethno-Techno: Writings on Performance, Activism and Pedagogy

Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Humor & Entertainment

Routledge

Inspired by the pre-Hispanic codices that escaped immolation during colonial invasions, this artists' book opens out in accordion folds expanding to a length of over 21 feet. Rice has created a series of beautiful and jarring montages in which the mixture of languages, slang, poetry, and prose of Gómez-Peña's performance texts are woven through and around Chagoya's collages filled with pre-Hispanic drawings, colonial-era representations of New World natives, and comic book superheroes. Irreverent to the last, Gómez-Peña and Chagoya employ iconic figures and persistent stereotypes to overturn the fantasies of nationalism, ethnocentrism, and historical amnesia that cloud international relations. Rice's masterful typographic compositions orchestrate the text's many voices and views, offering a history of the Americas which must be read forward and backward, in fragments and in recurring episodes―in short, as history itself tends to unfold.

Codex Espangliensis: From Columbus to the Border Patrol

Arts & Photography

Enrique Chagoya

Felicia Rice

History & Criticism

City Lights Publishers

Aspects of Resistance: Rupert Garcia

Garcia, Rupert

Carla Stellweg

The Alternative Museum

Focusing on the relationship between the photographic arts and writing at a time when each medium is in flux, As Yet Untitled: Artists and Writers in Collaboration was an experimental proposition for an exhibition at San Francisco Camerawork (January 6 April 16, 2011) as well as an accompanying catalogue. What happens when photographers and writers are brought together and asked to collaborate? One can only imagine, hence the project's title. Artists and writers whose diverse practices intersected through shared concerns with photography and writing were invited to participate by producing projects that explore these mediums as they experience a similar push toward the use of new technologies. The collaborators who agreed to participate provided a series of responses to the investigation of a photographic and written union.

As Yet Untitled: Artists and Writers in Collaboration

Dodie Bellamy

David Horvitz

Anne Colvin

Stuart Krimko

Nonsite Collective

Matt Lipps

Nona Caspers

Colter Jacobsen

Zach Houston

Ed Steck

Allone Co./Publication Studio

RJ Muna

Leigh Illion

Photography & Video

SF Camerawork Publications

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