La Nostalgia Remix: Solid Gold
Luna and Gómez-Peña have been collaborating since 1993. Solid Gold is their most recent collaborative performance. La Nostalgia Remix: Solid Gold is an anthology of past and recent work in the form of a live art record album. Performing within the architecture of a Long House, the artists challenge the audience to move, groove and experience the performance actions from multiple perspectives and “git down” to participate in the celebration.
Since the early 1990s, conceptual artist James Luna and performance artist/writer Guillermo Gómez-Peña have worked on an ongoing project titled The Shame-man meets El Mexican’t, in which they challenge assumptions and lazy thinking about ethnicity 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. The project uses nostalgia as style, a form of resistance and reinvention, exploring the cultural, symbolic and iconographic dimensions of “nostalgia” both on the Native American “rez” and in the Chicano “barrio.”
La Nostalgia Remix: Solid Gold toured throughout Canada from 2010-2012
September 29,2012 Epcor Centre, Calgary, Alberta, presented with Truck Contemporary Art, the Indigeneity Artist Collective Society and Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival for Alberta Culture Days
June 20, 2012, Ode'min Giizis Festival, Peterborough, Ontario
March 17, 2011, Neutral Ground in Regina, Saskatchewan presented by Neutral Ground, Sâkêwêwak and Tribe
March 14th, 2011, Paved Arts, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Neutral Ground, Sâkêwêwak and Tribe
October 23 2010, Tranzac Main Hall, Toronto Ontario presented by Toronto Free Gallery and Red Sky Performance with media partners imagineNATIVE and 7a*11d.
Since the early 1990s, conceptual artist James Luna and performance artist/writer Guillermo Gómez-Peña have worked on an ongoing project titled The Shame-man meets El Mexican’t, in which they challenge assumptions and lazy thinking about ethnicity 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. The project uses nostalgia as style, a form of resistance and reinvention, exploring the cultural, symbolic and iconographic dimensions of “nostalgia” both on the Native American “rez” and in the Chicano “barrio.”
La Nostalgia Remix: Solid Gold toured throughout Canada from 2010-2012
September 29,2012 Epcor Centre, Calgary, Alberta, presented with Truck Contemporary Art, the Indigeneity Artist Collective Society and Mountain Standard Time Performative Art Festival for Alberta Culture Days
June 20, 2012, Ode'min Giizis Festival, Peterborough, Ontario
March 17, 2011, Neutral Ground in Regina, Saskatchewan presented by Neutral Ground, Sâkêwêwak and Tribe
March 14th, 2011, Paved Arts, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan Neutral Ground, Sâkêwêwak and Tribe
October 23 2010, Tranzac Main Hall, Toronto Ontario presented by Toronto Free Gallery and Red Sky Performance with media partners imagineNATIVE and 7a*11d.
