La Nostalgia Remix: Solid Gold
La Nostalgia Remix: Solid Gold made its Canadian premiere in October 23 2010 at Tranzac Main Hall in Toronto Ontario. It was a co-presentation between presented by Toronto Free Gallery, Red Sky Performance and Native Women in the Arts with media partners imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival and 7a*11d International Festival of Performing Arts.
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
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
