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Artificial Savages in a Transcultural Landscape: Performance Art, Political Intention, and the Aesthetic Projects of Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Coco Fusco,

Artificial Savages in a Transcultural Landscape: Performance Art, Political Intention, and the Aesthetic Projects of Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Coco Fusco,

Stark, William

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies

Theater HistoryPerformance Art

ISBN10: 1032303220
ISBN13: 9781032303222
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Apr 20 2026
Pages: 330
Weight: 1.46
Height: 0.81 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This monograph explores the work of scholars and performance artists from the United States (U.S.) and México to expose the dire realities of white nationalist agendas in a global community.

In this volume, William Stark, PhD, considers the U.S.-México borderlands in terms of sociocultural and sociopolitical critiques established by performance artists and scholars Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Violeta Luna, Roberto Sifuentes, and La Pocha Nostra. This study offers a transcultural perspective of select performative texts and performance art pieces, with a view into ways in which Gómez-Peña's performance troupe, La Pocha Nostra, continues to serve as a locus of creative collaboration and community for an international cohort of artists, musicians, filmmakers, writers, and performance artists. This volume represents a collective internalization of geographies, a mapping of national territories and identitary boundaries, which makes of the human body a text, and the site where acts of psychomagic, poems and performative texts disturb normative cultural paradigms, interrogate notions of cultural hybridity, and trouble the epistemological architecture of cultural, ethnic, racial, and national delimitations.

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