Photo by Zen Cohen
Tuesday, September 12, 2023, 7 PM
Anderson Museum of Contemporary Art,
409 E. College Blvd., Roswell
Performance artist, writer and activist Guillermo Gómez-Peña returns to the Anderson Museum for a wild evening of spoken word. In this one-night event, Gómez-Peña is unplugged, thinking out loud and articulating the challenges and possibilities of reinvention in the midst of multiple pandemics & the spiritual world crises. This spoken word solo will include new texts written during the past three years combined with “classics” from the artist’s own living archives.
Last year, while in residence at RAIR, Gómez-Peña and his main collaborator and partner Balitronica Gómez shot a new film with a group of artists from New Mexico. Later this month, the film accomplices will reconvene to continue working on the film…Stay tuned for announcements about local screenings!
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“Gomez-Peña's work is among the most powerful examples of intercultural performance.” -Richard Shechner, American Theatre Magazine
“The hinge to Gómez-Peña's work, where high seriousness meets deep playfulness, is language...The luminous word fusions he gleefully concocts show the genius of a hybridized language, where entire cross-cultural concepts may be conveyed in a single gesture...” -The Nation
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña is a performance artist, writer, activist, radical pedagogue and artistic director of the performance troupe La Pocha Nostra. Born in Mexico City, he moved to the US in 1978, and since 1995, his three homes have been San Francisco, Mexico City and the "road". His performance work and 21 books have contributed to the debates on cultural, generational, and gender diversity, border culture and North-South relations. His artwork has been presented at over one thousand venues across the US, Canada, Latin America, Europe, Russia, South Africa and Australia. A MacArthur Fellow, USA Artists Fellow, and a Bessie, Guggenheim, and American Book Award recipient, he is a regular contributor to newspapers and magazines in the US, Mexico, and Europe and a contributing editor to The Drama Review (NYU-MIT), the Venice Performance Art Week Journal, and emisférica, the publication of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (NYU). Gómez-Peña is currently a Patron for the London-based Live Art Development Agency, and a Senior Fellow in the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics.