Run-time (hh:mm:ss): 00:39:19
Language:
In English, Spanish, and Spanglish.
Synopsis: Outtakes of the actual live satellite transmission of Gómez-Peña's pirate TV broadcast 'El Naftazteca: Cyber-Aztec TV for
2000 AD'. This live satellite transmission, interrupting the nightly news in an act of guerrilla television, presented the
artist as a post-NAFTA Cyber-Aztec pirate who commandeered a commercial TV signal from his underground 'Vato bunker', where
virtual reality meets border art in a collage of footage ranging from home movies, excerpts of earlier Gómez-Peña performances,
Mexican 'B' movies, etc. Radical politics, autobiographical material, 'reverse anthropology' and parodic traces of traditional
media broadcasts comprise the content of this legendary video art piece; its finished product was later distributed by Video
Data Bank. La Pocha Nostra (www.pochanostra.com) is an ever-morphing trans-disciplinary arts organization, founded in 1993
by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Roberto Sifuentes, and Nola Mariano in California.The objective was to formally conceptualize Gómez-Peña's collaborations with other performance artists. It provides a base
(and forum) for a loose network of rebel artists from various disciplines, generations and ethnic backgrounds, whose common
denominator is the desire to cross and erase dangerous borders between art and politics, practice and theory, artist and spectator.
As of June 2006, members include performance artists Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Violeta Luna, Michelle Ceballos, and Roberto Sifuentes;
curators Gabriela Salgado and Orlando Britto; and over thirty associates worldwide in countries such as Mexico, Spain, the
UK, and Australia. Projects range from performance solos and duets to large-scale performance installations including video,
photography, audio, and cyber-art. La Pocha collaborates across national borders, race, gender and generations.Their collaborative model functions both as an act of citizen diplomacy and as a means to create ephemeral communities of
like-minded rebels. The basic premise of these collaborations is founded on an ideal: If we learn to cross borders on stage,
we may learn how to do so in larger social spheres. La Pocha strives to eradicate myths of purity and dissolve borders surrounding
culture, ethnicity, gender, language, and métier. These are radical acts.
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Copyright Holder: Guillermo Gómez-Peña & La Pocha Nostra
Contact: Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Address:
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
2940 16th Street
Suite 110
San Francisco, CA 94103
U.S.A.
Phone(Business): +1-415-863-2441
Phone(Fax): +1-415-863-2160
Email: pocha@pochanostra.com
Website: http://www.pochanostra.com
Copyright Holder: Guillermo Gómez-Peña & La Pocha Nostra
Contact: Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Address:
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
2940 16th Street
Suite 110
San Francisco, CA 94103
U.S.A.
Phone(Business): +1-415-863-2441
Phone(Fax): +1-415-863-2160
Email: pocha@pochanostra.com
Website: http://www.pochanostra.com
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