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Museo de la Museo de la identidad fetich-izada: Pocha Nostra Workshop Photo/Foto: HIDVL
  • Title: Museo de la Museo de la identidad fetich-izada: Pocha Nostra Workshop
  • Alternate Title: Pocha Nostra workshop at the Museo del Chopo, Mexico City
  • Duration: 01:25:32
  • Language: English, Spanish, Spanglish
  • Date: May 2003
  • Location: Workshop held at Museo del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico, in May 2003.
  • Performers: Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Juan Ybarra, instructors.
  • Type: workshop

Museo de la Museo de la identidad fetich-izada: Pocha Nostra Workshop

Unedited documentation of La Pocha Nostra's one-week intensive workshop with 15 local performance/visual artists, curators, DJ's and musicians in Mexico City. During the workshop, held at the Museo del Chopo, participants develop constructed "hybrid personas" based on their own complex identities and personal sense of race and gender. The resulting "cultural especimens" later composed the performance/installation El Museo de la Identidad Fetich-Izada, a multimedia interactive diorama of fetishized identities addressing issues of appropriation of hybridity by corporate multiculturalism.


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