Border Remixeado
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Show abstract
Border Remixeado is a ground-breaking multimedia performance piece that explores the land, identity and politics of the Arizona-Mexico border region through live video projections, bilingual spoken word and performance art. Composed of a series of ten interconnected vignettes, the piece moves from the militarized border into the politics of English, and from then into racial stereotyping and deconstruction of identity symbols. Over the course of the show, a wide range of emotions, tones and media are drawn upon to take audiences to familiar subjects in unfamiliar ways. Border Remixeado challenges audiences to rethink the borders that are drawn between artistic genres, countries, languages and peoples.
Part video-art and part poetry, the piece is an engrossing intersection of cutting-edge digital media and age-old oral tradition.
Total runtime: 60 minutes.
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Selected previous performances of Border Remixeado:
- 2009 University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
- 2008 Ciudad Juárez Autonomous University, Mexico
- 2008 National Hispanic Cultural Center, Albuquerque, USA
- 2008 Bowery Poetry Club, New York City, USA
- 2008 Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, USA
- 2007-08 Poesía.en.Voz.Alta Festival, UNAM, Mexico City
- 2007 TipofyourTongue Festival, Penzance, England
- 2007 National Poetry Slam, Mexico City
- 2007 Polytechnic University of Morelos, Jiutepec, Mexico
Performance space
Border Remixeado is very flexible and can be made to adapt to a wide variety of spaces and stages, given sufficient room for video projection. Galleries, warehouses and black box theaters have all been successfully used in the past. The piece can be performed outdoors at night, given that the stage is protected from the weather.
Group
Verbobala Spoken Video is a binational video performance group based in Mexico City and Tucson, Arizona. Of diverse ethnic backgrounds, the members include Mexican video artist Moisés Regla, Chicano media designer Adam Cooper-Terán, American poet Logan Phillips. They are frequently joined live by DJ Emmett White.
Fotos: Ariana Foto
