"Mexterminator vs. the Global Predator" - a solo performance by Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Guillermo Gómez-Peña

Saturday 26 July, 2005. 7-9pm

In association with Toronto Free Gallery & Latino Canadian Cultural Organization

Ontario College of Art and Design, 100 McCaul St. Central Hall

Tickets can be purchased in advance at Toronto Free Gallery for $10
$15 at the door OCAD / students are admitted for free

Mexterminator vs. the Global Predator
A solo performance by Guillermo Gómez-Peña

 

In this performance, Gómez-Peña is back as a spoken word brujo-poeta to explore fear of immigration, the dark side effects of globalization, the digital divide, censorship, and interracial sexuality. Continually developing multicentric narratives from a border perspective, Gómez-Peña creates what critics have termed "Chicano cyber-punk performances." Cultural borders have moved to the center while the alleged mainstream is pushed to the margins and treated as exotic and unfamiliar, placing the audience member in the position of "foreigner." The artist uses spoken word, multilingualism, humor, and hybrid literary genres as subversive strategies. His personas include El S&M Zorro, El Mad Mex, El Web-back and El Traveling Medicine Vato. Different versions of this project have been performed in theaters, museums, churches,prisons, television studios, and radio stations. Technical requirements are minimal.

 

Length: 1 hour - 1 hour 30 minutes

 

"His award-winning solos combine languages-Spanish, English, Spanglish, Ingleñol, Nahuatl, wild theatrics and guerrilla satire to convey a new internationalism, a borderless ethos."
--Jan Breslauer, L.A. Times

 

We are pleased to announce that in conjunction with this event, SAVAC members Tej Ajji, Anand Rajaram, and Rashmi Varma will be participating in a 10 day workshop with the artist.

This event is organized by Toronto Free Gallery & Latino Canadian Cultural Organization. Sponsored by: Ontario Arts Council, Toronto Arts Council, and Ontario College of Art & Design. In Association with SAVAC (South Asian Visual Art Collective).