1992: performance stills

A performance trilogy deconstructing the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus 500 years previous.

• September 1990

• Cinewest Productions

• Artenstein, Isaac

• Gómez-Peña, Guillermo

Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles, California)

color negative; 35mm

Most of Gómez-Peña’s characters are hybrids, half traditional and half contemporary, half Mexican and half Chicano. During the performance the characters undergo constant transformations seen through overlapping props, costumes and makeup. Each character articulates within himself a series of cultural contradictions which are at the core of the US-Latino experience.

• Gómez-Peña, Guillermo

• Candles
• Costumes
• Flags
• Humor
• Imperialism
• Lighting
• Multiculturalism
• Performance art
• Political art
• Satire (artistic device)

• image

• No linguistic content; Not applicable

Shared Shelf: 8203932

Performing Arts (including Performance Art)

Photographs

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2021-09-30