Border Brujo
Type
Audio/Visual
Authors
Category
Art Document
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Publication Year
1989
Publisher
Third World Newsreel, United States
Duration
60 min.
Subject
Gómez-Peña, Guillermo. Performance art.
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Abstract
Border Brujo is a ritual-linguistic journey across the U.S./Mexico border written and performed by artist Guillermo Gómez Peña. In the guise of a cross-cultural shaman, Gómez Peña shifts into 15 different personas, each speaking a different language. The personas are symbolic of the borders between North and South, Anglo and Latino; myth and reality; legality and illegality; art and life. Border Brujo assaults and exorcises the demons of dominant cultures. He articulates fear, desire, trauma sublimation, anger and misplacement embodying ruptured and defiant communities with multilingual dexterity and humor.
Description
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sd., col.
Audio: English and Spanish dialogue.
Audio: English and Spanish dialogue.
Number of Copies
1
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A great work to use for teaching performance art, art that deals with the border, art that deals with intersectional identities.
6 years ago