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Ethno-Techno: Writings on Performance, Activism and Pedagogy book cover

1st Edition

Ethno-Techno Writings on Performance, Activism and Pedagogy

By Guillermo Gomez-Pena Copyright 2005
330 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge

336 Pages
by Routledge
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña has spent many years developing his unique style of performance-activism; his theatricalizations of postcolonial theory. In Ethno-Techno: Writings on Performance, Activism and Pedagogy, he pushes the boundaries still further, exploring what's left for artists to do in a post-9/11 repressive culture of what he calls 'the mainstream bizarre'. Over forty-five photos document... Read more
Interventions in the Mainstream Bizarre  Track 1: Introductory Essays and Chronicles Track 2: Pedagogy ( a useful guide to the Pocha Methode) Track 3: Performance Radio Track 4: Performance Literature (for the stage and cyber-space) Track 5: Conversations with Theorists

Biography

Guillermo Gomez-Pena

'This document will be of great value for teachers not just in performance but in all the fields Gómez-Peña admits to his workshops: the arts, literature, cultural studies, visual culture and so on.' – Nick Mirzoeff, SUNY at Stony Brook

'A fascinating and important collection of texts.' – Jon McKenzie, author of Perform or Else

'Gómez-Peña's work and insight continue to be so very important ... a much needed book in these days and times.' – Rebecca Schneider, Brown University

'A publication of international significance and one that will appeal to students, artists and activists engaged with art and politics in a social context across the world' – Lois Keidan, Live Art Development Agency

'This collection offers an unprotected fluid exchange of ideas and cross-contamination of methodologies ... a great book ... It might even change your life.' – Contemporary Theatre Review

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