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Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Juan Ybarra and Michelle Ceballos of La Pocha Nostra with Kazuko Hohki and Ansuman Biswas
Ex-Centris (A Living Diorama of Fetish-ized Others)

A living museum of experimental ethnography addressing the appropriation of hybridity and 'revolution as style' by corporate multiculturalism and global media. In a series of interactive dioramas the artists became 'inter-cultural specimens' parodying colonial practices of representation whilst fetishizing charged symbols of cultural difference.

Guillermo Gómez-Peña's influential work in performance art, video, audio, installation and cultural theory illuminates the cultural side effects of globalisation and explores cross-cultural issues, immigration, the politics of language, "extreme culture" and new technologies. A contributing editor to The Drama Review (MIT), he is the author and subject of many publications including Dangerous Border Crossers (Routledge 2000).

Ex-Centris
Ex-Centris  Photo © Manuel Vason, 2003

Ex Centris was first presented at the Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art International Exhibition 2002 and is an inter-continental collaboration between La Pocha Nostra, the Live Art Development Agency, Bluecoat Arts Centre, the Liverpool Biennial and motiroti.

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Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Juan Ybarra, Michelle Ceballos, Ansuman Biswas, Kazuko Hohki and collaborators - A Living Diorama of Fetish-ized Others  5m48s

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Ex-Centris
Ex-Centris  Photo © Manuel Vason, 2002

Ex-Centris
Ex-Centris  Photo © Manuel Vason, 2002

 
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