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The Extraordinary Pocha Nostra - A Deep Dive into LADA’s archive with Ansuman Biswas
Documentation from a deep dive into La Pocha Nostra’s archive held at LADA’s Study Room on 5th July 2024, led by artist Ansuman Biswas who has been collaborating with La Pocha Nostra and its founder Guillermo Gómez-Peña since 2002.
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Dangerous Border Crossers: performingborders x La Pocha Nostra
Audio documentation of a participatory conversation in response to La Pocha Nostra’s commitment to use performativity as a methodology of resistance and to erase the borders between art and politics, art practice and theory, and artist and spectator, on 2nd August 2024 at The Garrett Centre.
performingborders has been exploring performance and Live Art practices across notions and lived experiences of intersectional borders since 2016, inspired by La Pocha Nostra’s work. Drawing from Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s publication Dangerous Border Crossers: The Artist Talks Back (2000), they explored LADA Study Room’s resources around borders and performances, including the Performing Borders Study Room Guide. They also drew from their own archive to highlight artists whose practices challenge the diversity of experiences at the intersections of cultural, juridical, racial, gendered, class, physical, economic, and everyday borders.
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Gómez-Peña Unplugged: Texts on Live Art, Social Practice and Imaginary Activism (2008–2020)
Gómez-Peña Unplugged is an anthology of recent and rewritten classic writings from Guillermo Gómez-Peña, a figure who stands alone as unique and ground-breaking in the history of performance art and as the artistic director of transdisciplinary performance troupe La Pocha Nostra.
La Pocha Nostra: A Handbook for the Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society
La Pocha Nostra: A Handbook for the Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society marks a transformation from its sister book, Exercises for Rebel Artists, into a pedagogical matrix suited for use as a performance handbook and conceptual tool for artists, activists, theorists, pedagogues, and trans-disciplinary border crossers of all stripes.
SIGNUM
A performance-based short film, in which the artist inquire through bodily actions the creation and function of visible and invisible signs in response to the geologic.
Includes the film, trailer, stills, and film description.
Catalogue - Venice International Performance Art Week 2014: Ritual Body - Political Body
Festival catalogue.
Weathering the Storm: Guillermo Gómez-Peña Keynote Film
Film by Guillermo Gómez-Peña, for the LAUK Gathering, at Watershed, Bristol on 12 February 2015
Gómez-Peña on Illness, the Human Body, Performance, and Quantum Physics
Guillermo Gómez-Peña talks viral infection, nomadic performance, immobility, psychomagic performance, and convalescence.
Truth is Concrete A Handbook for Artistic Strategies in Real Politics
This publication charts very different tactics and strategies, written by practitioners from all over the world, mapping the broad field of engaged art and artistic activism in our times. Essays by Stephen Duncombe & Steve Lambert, Alanna Lockward, Florian Malzacher, Chantal Mouffe, Gerald Raunig and Jonas Staal.
Study Room Guide / LADA Anthology: Dangerous Border Crossings (with thanks to Guillermo Gómez-Peña)
Themed collections of performance documentation and works for camera projects addressing issues of borders/border crossings
