Ritual spoken word performance by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes with Chicano journalist, author and musician Rubén Martínez, as a part of Adobe L.A. Interventions. An enigmatic living diorama of a "Vato cultural specimen" is flanked by a border-crossing "spoken word" tour de force, a staccato back-and-forth of poetry, word-play, political commentary, autobiographical material, and performative provocation. This intervention was performed in the context of the project "Urban Revisions: Current Projects in the Public Realm," curated by the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California, and later edited by Elizabeth A. T. Smith.
Urban Revisions (1994)
HIDVL
Additional Info
- Video: HIDVL Video
- Title: Urban revisions
- Alternate Title: Urban revisions (MOCA)
- Holdings: video (HIDVL)
- Duration: 00:37:48
- Language: English, Spanish, Spanglish
- Date: 15 May 1994
- Location: Performed as part of Adobe L.A. Interventions at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, California.
- Type-Format: performance
- Cast: Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Roberto Sifuentes, Rubén Martínez.
- Credits: Guillermo Gómez-Peña, director, producer ; La Pocha Nostra, producer ; MOCA, producer ; part of Adobe L.A. Interventions, producer ; Alexandra Moctezuma, videographer.
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Pocha Nostra: Works