Artificial Savages in a Transcultural Landscape

Performance Art, Political Intention, and the Aesthetic Projects of Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Coco Fusco, Violeta Luna, Roberto Sifuentes, and La Pocha Nostra

William Stark (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

360 Seiten

2026
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-30322-2 (ISBN)

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This monograph explores the work of scholars and performance artists from the US and México to expose the dire realities of white nationalist agendas in a global community.

In this volume, William Stark, PhD, considers the US-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.

This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of Performance Studies and Performance Art.

William Stark is Professor of Spanish and the Head of the Spanish Program at the University of Rhode Island, USA.

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgments

Glossary

Bios

Introduction: Artificial Savages in a Transcultural Landscape

1. La Pocha Nostra and Radical Performance Pedagogy as Transcultural Method

2. Guillermo Gómez-Peña: From Border Brujo to El Naftazteca

3. Coco Fusco, Colonial Spectacle, and the Gendered Machine of Empire

4. Violeta Luna: Performing Mexicana Indigenous Identities: Woman of Maize––La Llorona Cibernética

5. Roberto Sifuentes and the Cyber-Baroque Aesthetics of the Post-national Body

6. Conclusion

Appendices

Index

Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.4.2026
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Advances in Theatre & Performance Studies
Zusatzinfo	71 Halftones, black and white; 71 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
ISBN-10	1-032-30322-0 / 1032303220
ISBN-13	978-1-032-30322-2 / 9781032303222
Zustand	Neuware