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Special Event – Formal Opening of New Performance Space
The New Barbarian Collection appropriates the format of an X-treme fashion show, complete with red carpet, runway, and paparazzi. The work engages the audience with a variety of fashion-inspired stylized performance personas stemming from problematic media representations of foreigners, immigrants, and social eccentrics, as both enemies of the state and sexy pop-cultural rebels. Ten invited artists from the San Diego/Tijuana region will develop the performance personas during a five-day interdisciplinary workshop with Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Violetta Luna, and Roberto Sifuentes.
Founded in 1993 by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Roberto Sifuentes and Nola Mariano, La Pocha Nostra is an ever morphing trans-disciplinary arts organization based in San Francisco with branches and factions in many other cities and countries. With an international performance history of over 800 events, La Pocha seeks to provide both a support network and forum for artists of various disciplines and ethnic backgrounds. La Pocha Nostra is neither an ensemble, nor a troupe, but more of a conceptual laboratory; a loose association of rebel artists thinking together, crossing borders, exchanging wild ideas, and political aspirations.
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