alicia
  anger
  aqua madora
  balada del güetbac
  blue
  the cheshire cat
  cross channel
  city _ m-y
  i am yours as you are mine
  i left you on a cold day in december
  jetta
  one wall —for john cage
  pressure
  room
  shiver

balada del güetbac (the wetback balad)

“La Balada del Güetbac” (The Wetback Ballad) is a performance installation of multimedia tableaux combining dance, music, video, television, and “found”-art and other object-assemblages, whose combined synergy is designed to express both the oppressed plight and the vibrant diversity of the inner condition of the United States’ Mexican-American population.

The Wetback Ballad’s gripping, yet engaging multi-sensory imagery and consciousness-penetrating aesthetic provides ample evidence to our local communities – Mexican-American and Anglo – that Mexican-Americans’ struggle to shake off shackles forged by stultifying political, religious, technological and discriminatory forces has enabled these determined people, despite their grievous suffering, to survive and prevail in the new land of their choosing.

Bridging the gap between “Alicia” and “Anger”, the installation uses musical and visual themes established in “Alicia”, and brings them to an enveloping realm inspired by our early work on concepts for “Anger.”

Performed as an installation at the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art January 30-February 22, 2004

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