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  • Title: Performance demonstration at Italian Consulate, San Francisco
  • Holdings: video (HIDVL)
  • Duration: 00:23:24
  • Language: English, Spanish, Spanglish
  • Date: 2001
  • Location: San Francisco, California
  • Type-Format: demonstration
  • Cast: Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Julie Sparling.
  • Credits: Guillermo Gómez-Peña, producer ; La Pocha Nostra, producer.

Performance demonstration at Italian Consulate, San Francisco

Performers: Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Julie Sparling
Performed in San Francisco, California, in 2001.

Political street intervention by Guillermo Gómez-Peña (here as a 'Tamed Global Artist' from 'Genoa, San Diego') and American artist/activist Julie Sparling (here as a 'Corporate Dominatrix'), protesting the imprisonment of international border-crossing multimedia performance group Publix Theatre Caravan during the G8 Summit in Genoa, Italy, 2001. A parody of international cultural politics and a critique of racism and police brutality, this performance demonstration was enacted in San Francisco in the context of a series of demonstrations at Italian Consulates around the world.

 


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