La Nostalgia Re-Mix
- When
- Sat Jul 17, 2010
- Where
- Galeria de la Raza
- Time
- 7pm
- Tags
- Galleries, Literary Arts
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La Nostalgia Re-MixSaturday, July 17, 2010 | 7:00 pm
An Informal lecture with James Luna and Guillermo Gomez-Pena
Galeria de la Raza invites you for an informal lecture with premiere Native American conceptual artist James Luna and Guillermo Gomez-Pena. The artists will be presenting a photographic account of their ongoing collaborative project titled La Nostalgia Remix. The photographs that will be shown were created by San Francisco photographer RJ Muna and involve a series of informal performances that took place last year at local bars and at Left Space Studio. For this photo shoots the artists invited several SF based artists and intellectuals to help them stage images that invoked the melancholy of iconic paintings such as Nighthawks by Edward Hopper.
This event is free and open to the public but space is limited. (Donations are welcome)
Background on the collaboration:
Since the early 90’s, performance artist/writer Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Native American conceptual artist James Luna have worked on an ongoing project titled The Shame-man meets El Mexican't in which they challenge assumptions and lazy thinking about race and culture in our society with a strong dose of melancholic humor and sharp-edged conceptualism. By using
performance, writing, photography, and video, the artists have remained flexible and relevant to our shifting culture. Every La Nostalgia Remix performance is unique and uses the artists’ evolving repertoire of “greatest hits” in varying combinations. Previous performances have included the artists staging their own ritual deaths inside a coffin and a poetic dialogue during which Luna cooked an Indian stew and Gomez-Pena played roulette. These works have been presented at the Mission Cultural Center and Headlands Center for the Arts, San Francisco, and at Out North and the Bunnell Street Galllery in Alaska.
La Nostalgia Remix is supported by the James Irvine Foundation, the MAP Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, the San Francisco Arts Commission’s Native American Arts & Cultural Traditions Initiative, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, and William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
$5 Suggested Donation
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