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Book by Gomez-Pena, Guillermo, Sifuentes, Roberto
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Guillermo Gomz Pena is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship for his work investigating the frontiers of American/Mexican culture. He perfoms, reads, and lectures throughout the world and is the most in demand Mexican/American performance artist alive today. He has also authored New World Border, the winner of several awards.
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A performance-and-installation piece that has appeared in museums across the country, "Temple of Confessions" features artists Gomez-Pe?a (The New World Border, LJ 8/15/96) and Sifuentes and their collaborators acting in such personae as Tex-Mex shaman and pregnant nun. Within an environment of humorous and provocative objects that serve "to open a Pandora box and let loose the colonial demons," visitors are invited to confess their secret desires either by kneeling and recording into a microphone, writing a postcard, or calling a phone number. The confessions are often emotional and reveal racism, tenderness, solidarity, or sexuality as visitors react to the Latino "other." This is art as serious social exploration and should prove a challenging addition to public, academic, or special collections. The book documents the exhibit in text and photographs, along with a selection of visitors' confessions and essays by commentators. It comes with a CD containing confessions, performance art, and commentary in the NAFTA languages. For all contemporary art collections.?Kathryn Wekselman, Univ. of Cincinnati Lib.
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Temple of Confessions: Mexican Beasts and Living Santos
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TEMPLE OF CONFESSIONS: MEXICAN BEATS AND LIVING SANTOS;
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Hardcover. Condition: Used - Good. A ground-breaking publication by MacArthur Fellow and American Book Award winner Guillermo Gomez-Pena and his collaborator Roberto Sifuentes: confess your innermost fears and desires about Mexicans, Latinos, and the Border. This landmark book includes an audio CD, a confessional mail-in post-card, and a temporary tattoo. Texts by Ruben Martinez, Roger Bartra, Ana Castillo, Juan Felipe Herrera, Ed Morales, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Roberto Sifuentes, and others. Book has minor shelf wear. Includes CD-ROM. Seller Inventory # 20110210129246
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Temple Of Confessions: Mexican Beasts and Living Santos: A Project
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover, 144 pages, copiously illustrated, pictorial rear endpapers, NOT ex-library. Missing the front endpaper and half-title page (opens directly on the title page). interior is clean and bright, untanned, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps, firmly bound. Boards show gentle handling wear. Issued without a dust jacket. -- This book documents a provocative interactive performance art project that toured major museums across the United States in the mid-1990s by Chicano performance artists Guillermo Gomez-Pena and Roberto Sifuentes. It captures the "border kitsch" aesthetic, using a riot of religious symbols and pop culture to explore the hybrid identity of the U.S.-Mexico border. -- This book is dedicated to the performance installation Temple of Confessions. The project was a satirical, pseudo-religious environment that critically examined American attitudes toward Mexican and Chicano culture, border politics, and the exoticisation of the Latino body. Presented as a bizarre temple filled with altars, relics, and living exhibits, the installation featured the artists themselves as 'living santos' and 'Mexican beasts,' inviting audience members to confess their stereotypes, fears, and fantasies through written notes, recorded messages, or direct interaction. The publication combines colour photographs of the installation and performances with scripts, artist writings, and critical commentary that explore themes of cultural identity, colonial desire, spirituality, and the politics of representation. The book is both a visual archive of the touring project and a theoretical reflection on Gómez-Peña and Sifuentes's distinctive style of border art and performance in the mid-1990s. Seller Inventory # 013109
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