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DESCRIPTION:Guillermo Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra's\nPerformance Karaoke\n\nA 
 series of participatory performance art events led by artist Guillermo 
 Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra as part of the exhibition "I feel I am 
 free but I know I am not" at SF Camerawork\n\nThe public is invited to join 
 artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra in what critics have 
 described as "radical performance karaoke" events at SF Camerawork this 
 October. In the hybrid realm of La Pocha Nostra's interactive performance 
 installations, radical political imagery, religious iconography, pop 
 culture, outrageous racially-oriented costume, theatricalized sexuality and 
 even embalmed animals mix to parody colonial practices of representation 
 including the ethnographic diorama, the freak show, the strip joint, the 
 Indian trading post and their contemporary manifestations.\n\nAt SF 
 Camerawork, the group will stage performance events in which the artists 
 will arrange tableaux vivants with the audience, manipulating the 
 participants' body positions and adding costumes and props to their 
 impromptu personae. As audience members join in and adopt a 'temporary 
 identity', the truly political nature of the work reveals itself most 
 strongly as participants begin to make aesthetic, political and ethical 
 decisions on the spot. Photographers will be on hand to capture the results 
 and images will be mounted to create a wall of photographs that grows as 
 the exhibit continues. For the event on October 11th -- Bay Area power 
 brokers stage their imagined performance personas – La Pocha Nostra will 
 involve invited Bay Area officials and politicians in the 
 work.\n\nGuillermo Gómez-Peña was born in Mexico City and moved to the US 
 in 1978, where he established himself as a performance artist, writer, 
 activist, and educator. In 1991, he became the first Chicano/Mexicano 
 artist to receive a MacArthur Fellowship (1991-1996). Gómez-Peña's 
 performance art often involves audience participation, elaborate costuming 
 and other collaborators, including Roberto Sifuentes, James Luna, Violeta 
 Luna and Coco Fusco.\n\nWHAT:\nArtist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and La Pocha 
 Nostra's "Performance Karaoke" – a participatory performance art event 
 led by artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra as part of SF 
 Camerawork's fall exhibition I feel I am free but I know I am not.\n\nDATES 
 AND TIMES:\nSaturday, October 11 from 3-5 pm "Bay Area power brokers stage 
 their imagined performance personas"\n\nTuesday, October 21 from 5-8 pm 
 "The audience stages their favorite artwork"\n\n\nWHERE:        \nSF 
 Camerawork, 657 Mission St., Second Floor, San Francisco\n\nADMISSION:   
 \n$5.00; $2.00 for students and seniors; free to Camerawork 
 members\n\nINFORMATION:   \nwww.sfcamerawork.org or 415.512.2020\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/30/18542069.php
SUMMARY:Upcoming Camerawork Events: Guillermo Gómez-Peña and La Pocha Nostra’s Performance Karaoke
LOCATION:657 Mission Street\n2nd Floor
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/09/30/18542069.php
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