The Lowrider Christ-Unspeakable Creature-La Llorona del Cabaret Babylon-Aztlán Triptych
It wasn’t until 2004 that I began to think of performance photography as a product in itself. Since then, I have developed 8 portfolios strictly for the camera. This triptych is part of my 9th portfolio developed in collaboration with photographer RJ Muna. This is the first time a Canadian audience will get to see this piece. —GGP
Biography
Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and director of La Pocha Nostra. His performance work and 10 books have contributed to the debates on cultural diversity, border culture and US-Mexico relations. In 2012 he was named Samuel Hoi Fellow by USA Artists and in 2014 received the Fleishhacker Foundation's Eureka Fellowship.
RJ Muna began his professional career photographing street demonstrations in Berkeley during the Vietnam War. With more than two decades as a professional photographer in San Francisco he is one of the top photographers servicing big-time clients and independent, experimental artists alike.