Guillermo Gómez-Pe?a is a Mexican/Mexican performance artist, writer, activist and educator. Gómez-Pe?a creates works in a variety of media, including performance art, experimental broadcast, video, photography and installation art. He has written approximately 15 books; including essays, experimental poetry, performance scripts, photographs, and chronicles in English, Spanish, and Spanish. He was a founding member of the avant-garde art group Border Arts Workshop/Taller de Arte Fronterizo (1985-1992) and artistic director of the performing arts group La Pocha Nostra
"Gómez-Pe?a" has been a member of the avant-garde art group for more than 30 years. He played an important role in cultural debates, including "Border Brujo" (1988 ~ 1989), "Caged Lovers" (1988 ~ 1989), etc. Two Undiscovered Indians Visit the West (with Coco Fusco, 1992-93), The Cross Novel Project (with Roberto Cifuentes, 1994), Confession (1995), "The Terminator Project" (1997-99), "The Living Museum of Fetishized Identity" (1999-2002), the Mapa/Corpo series (2004-2013) and the recent Border Opera " We Are All Aliens" (2018-present) His award-winning solo show mixes experimental aesthetics, activist politics, Hispanic humor and audience participation to create a "total experience" for the viewer/reader/viewer< /p>
"The New World Border" is one of his works. The content is mainly poetry, and the theme is Latin American studies. Borders of a New World is a new collection of prose, poetry, and performance texts through which Gomez-Pena considers issues of race, nationality, language, and identity. The book is a carnivalesque inversion of racial and geopolitical ideologies, a disorienting free fall, a head-on collision with the boundaries of reality and imagination. Gómez-Pe?a has won international acclaim for his efforts to create hybrid cultures and articulate a borderless ethos, and has been called a cross-cultural interpreter, reverse anthropologist, experimental linguist, and political artist of the first order. The Village Voice declared: “In everything he does, he is a tenaciously playful wordsmith; a fertile rumination on contradictions, clichés, and conundrums; and an inspiring culturally diverse person. A recruiter for the cultural movement."
Gómez-Pe?a also received a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship in 1991 for his progressive and humanistic ideas as a writer and interdisciplinary artist.