Dangerous Border Crossers

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ISBN: 9780415182362 | 0415182360
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 5/31/2000

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"Dangerous Border Crossers" connects a remarkable range of subjects, revealing what goes into the making of performance art, and establishing Gomez-Pena as one of this century's most persuasive voices for a borderless future.

List of Illustrations and Sources

Preface and Acknowledgements

xiii

Introduction

(2)

1492 Performances

(2)

Love Poem

(2)

La Migrant Life

(11)

Returning to America (1997)

(3)

Criminal Identity Profile

(2)

PART I Performance Documents

(76)

Super-Nintendo Ranchero

(10)

Mexican Beasts and Living Santos

(6)

A Selection of Audience ``Confessions''

(4)

Ethno-cyborgs and Genetically Engineered Mexicans

(13)

A Selection of Internet Confessions

(3)

On Fear of the Other

(1)

When Our Performance Personas Walk out of the Museum

(11)

Performance Memory

(4)

My Third Tattoo

(2)

The Art of Camouflage: Performing in extremely unusual contexts

(12)

Performance Radio Interview

(2)

The Activist Commandments of the New Millennium

(2)

The Self-deportation Project, 1995

(4)

PART II Migrant Provocaterus: Further Chronicles

(122)

From Chiapas to Wales

101

(15)

The Mexican Community Center in Fort Collings

116

(1)

From Montana to Helsinki

117

(16)

Vladivostok: An Untranslatable Memory, 1999

133

(2)

The ``Psycho'' in the Lobby of the Theater

135

(2)

Deported to the North

137

(6)

``One Nude Woman, Thirteen Roaches and No Arrests''

143

(2)

On Censorship

145

(2)

Communities in Despair

147

(20)

PART III Conversations Across the Border Fence

165

(2)

Away from the Surveillance Cameras of the Art World: Strategies for Collaboration and Community Activism

167

(21)

Guillermo Gomez-Pena

Roberto Sifuentes

Lisa Wolford

Chihuahuas, Rockeros, and Zoot Suits: Notes on Multiculturalism without People of Color

188

(33)

Guillermo Gomez-Pena

Josh Kun

PART IV In Search of a New Topography

221

(57)

The ``Subcomandante'' of Performance

222

(9)

Magic, Myth and Crises:

231

(4)

El Ranchero Nosferatu

231

(1)

Nafta Witchcraft

232

(3)

The Two Guadalupes

235

(8)

The Dangers of Being a Biracial Kid

243

(4)

The Virtual Barrio @ The Other Frontier

247

(14)

Letter to an Unknown Thief

261

(2)

Keynote ``Provocation''

263

(6)

Reflections on the Culture of Despair

269

(9)

Afterword: Postcards from the Border Zone

278

Lisa Wolford

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