Verbobala is live video and verbs. Verbobala is bilingual, born of two countries in conflict. Verbobala is high caliber poetry, reinvented according to the setting. Verbobala is cut-up image and sound, recorded from daily life and played at high volume. Verbobala is modular, merging elements of a ritual, party, and installation in one. Verbobala is performance art that causes a scene.

Verbobala Spoken Video is a bi-national video performance group based in Cuernavaca, Mexico and Tucson, Arizona. Of diverse ethnic backgrounds, the members include video artist Moisés Regla, a Mexican of French and Spanish decent, acclaimed media designer, Adam Cooper-Terán, a Chicano of Russian and Yaqui decent, and Border poet Logan Phillips, an American of Irish and Slavic decent. This diversity is also reflected in their artistic backgrounds, as each comes to the project with experience in distinct areas including slam poetry, underground hip-hop, new media, experimental linguistics, electro-acoustic music, contemporary ritual and video installation.

Verbobala creates bilingual site-specific performance art that challenges the traditional concept of artistic genres. Like international borders, the separation between artistic forms and languages has become increasingly amorphous and irrelevant. Their pieces play with the limits between cinema and literature, performance and installation, orchestration and improvisation, English and Spanish, audience and artist.

Their work would be at home in a museum in Monterrey or an illegal movie-screening in Bakersfield, California. Indeed, between them, the members of Verbobala have showcased their work at venues such as the Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain, the TipofyourTongue Festival in Cornwall, England, the Nuyorican Poets’ Café in New York City, the Mesa Arts Center in Arizona, and the All Souls Procession, one of the most inclusive non-motorized parades in the Southwest.