Chican@ Artistic Practice: Performing Community in Contested Public Space

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  • Wilfried Raussert Universidad de Bielefeld

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32870/vel.vi16.150

Palabras clave:

Public space, Chican@ culture, Performance arts, Music, Community-building

Resumen

The article argues that it can be stated that Chican@ artistic practice has a strong affinity with community building. In this sense, Chican@ art practice holds a long tradition of seeking presence in public space in order to form, question and democratically promote communal bonding. The Chican@ art practice is largely hemispheric and refuses any national classification. In a cultural interspace between Mexican and American communities, Chican@ artists, musicians, and writers tend to engage in aesthetic and community-building cross-border projects. The article explores Chican@ performance culture from El Teatro de Campesino to contemporary border plays and performances of Guillermo Gómez-Peña and argues that artistic practices of Chican@ artists and activists have consciously sought to infiltrate public space and thus transform the public sphere through theater, art, and music in public settings.

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Publicado

2020-07-01

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Raussert, W. (2020). Chican@ Artistic Practice: Performing Community in Contested Public Space. Verbum Et Lingua: Didáctica, Lengua Y Cultura, (16), 60–72. https://doi.org/10.32870/vel.vi16.150