this man has had me following him since I first heard of his work - he and a fellow artist had tied themselves to makeshift crucifixes in LA, one which was labeled LAPD and the other, I believe named after border control. They were up there until their audience finally got it that if they didn't intervene and get them off the crosses, they would perish just like Jesus is said to have done.
Gómez-Peña and his collaborator were saved from sudden death and suffered no more than dislocated shoulders, rope burn, and general trauma from escape of near death.
he is always doing crazy and amazing things, performing alongside Coco Fusco in a cage on display as the last Amerindians who had been left untouched by the outside world (Couple in a Cage) or simply swigging tabasco in one fail swoop in his instant identity ritual, fust before donning an EZLN pasamontaña, this man investigates identity, violence, borders, colonization and more generally, life in this crazy mixed up world of stereotypes racism vigilance and attempted control at all times, completely unsettling any sense of order that gringa culture may try to hold onto. I love it.
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