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Guillermo Gomez Pena. Born in 1955 (55 years old). Internet Artist, performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. He has pioneered multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video, performance photography and installation art. By: Fatima Valadez.
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Guillermo Gomez Pena Born in 1955 (55 years old) Internet Artist, performance artist, writer, activist, and educator. He has pioneered multiple media, including performance art, experimental radio, video, performance photography and installation art By: Fatima Valadez
Born in Mexico city, Gomez Pena came to the united states in 1978. He’s a contributor to National Public Radio, which is a writer for newspapers and magazines in the US, Mexico and Europe and editor to “The Drama Review”. His art work has been presented at over seven hundred venues across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Russia and Australia. He uses his art and writing to reveal the labyrinths of identity and the precipices of nationality. Biography
Books He has 10 books that contribute to the debates on cultural diversity, border culture and US-Mexico relations. Dangerous Border Crosser and The New World Border. His books are mainly poems, prophecies and controversies between Mexico and the United States. Mainly about the border of these. He recently has 11 books.
Artistic Director La Pocha Nocha is an international collective of artists, curators, and intellectuals. Guillermo Gomez Pena is the artistic director in this place in San Francisco, California. His work is pioneering in performance, video, radio, installation, poetry, journalism, and cultural theory explores cross-cultural issues, immigration, the politics of language, "extreme culture," and new technologies
It’s a base for a loose network and forum of rebel artists from various disciplines, generations and ethnic backgrounds. The will be announcements about projects in Tucson, Mexico, San Francisco, Brazil, Serbia, Peru and Greece. http://www.pochanostra.com/ La Pocha nostra
The new barbarians: x-treme fashion show . The admissions are from $20 dollars. The seating is limited to 65. It would be a culmination of a three day workshop . http://as220.org/tag/guillermo-gomez-pena/ Fashion shows
Guillermo Gomez Pena was the first Latino to receive the McArthur Fellowship. Which is a program that usually gives award to 20 to 40 citizens or residents to show their creative work. He also received the American Book Award that are given to people by their recognition of their book they’ve wrote. Gomez Pena has had the honors to receive the Cineaste Lifetime Achievement award at Taos Talking Pictures Film Festival and the New York Bessie Awards www.wikipedia.com Awards
Gomez Pena studied at the California Institute of the Arts. And at the UNAM in Mexico city he studied Linguistics and Latin American Literature. He is part of the college mission to prepare students for professional careers. education
Temple of confessions Gathers confessions on intercultural fears and desires. http://classconnection.s3.amazonaws.com/793/flashcards/103793/jpg/templeofconfessions1323234101437.jpg on 2/28/13.
Fusco and Gómez-Peña Two Amerindians on display for three days at Columbus Plaza, Madrid, Spain, 1992. Coco Fusco locked themselves in a cage. Presenting themselves as aboriginal inhabitants of an island http://bombsite.com/issues/42/articles/1599 on 2/28/13
La Pocha Nocha • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bULnwRBVBk
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