Arts Bombast: La Pocha Nostra
Aliados: You may (or may not) have noticed that my posting on Ribbon Around a Bomb has decreased lately. The reason is a very exciting one indeed. I recently accepted a part-time position with Guillermo Gómez-Peña, “post-Mexican” performance artist, author, thaumaturge-superstar and Artistic Director of San Francisco’s La Pocha Nostra.
[Boxedor Binacional aka Not Arthur Craven, 2012. Photo: Jen Cohen. This was taken in GP’s home and studio, where I am working.]
One of my first projects for Guillermo was actually putting together an Indiegogo campaign for La Pocha Nostra’s Fall tour. If you support radical pedagogy, Chicano activism, unconventional art, or experimentation in general, you should throw down some dolla bills and get a mix-tape made by Guillermo. And if you tell me that you donated, I’ll throw in a mix tape of my own, ft. obscuro Spanish-language femme punk.
In any case, enjoy some Gómez-Peña / La Pocha Nostra images…
[Ni Frida ni Diego, 2004. GP and Violeta Luna’s anti-hommage.]
[La Pareja Jaula, Madrid, 1992]
[Roberto Sifuentes, Corpo Insurrecto 3.0: The Robo-Proletariat. Photo: Ami Mathur]
[El Biker Shaman, 2008. Photo: Zach Gross]
[Brujos Tricontinentales]
[Photo: Xavier Tavera]
[In the Hall of Genocide, 2007. Photo: Teresa Correa]
[GP and Sifuentes as Border Bandits, 1999.]
[Photo courtesy of Creative Time]
Give yr soul/$$$ to this shit, amiright?
Ribbon Around A Bomb 
Congratulations! 😀 That is wonderful news.
(Does thaumaturge mean magician? o.O I read this book where they used the word “thaumaturgy” instead of magic.)
excelent blog. Dos melhores blogs que já conheci.THANKS
Thanks so much! I wish I knew more Italian so I could understand yours, but it looks cool!
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likeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee la pocha nostra