A roller-skating nun prophesizes the death of rock'n'roll in spray paint on the walls of a Mexico City high-rise. The angular, succulent leaves of the maguey plant dance to the rhythm of Shostakovich's 11th Symphony. A feminist prankster wreaks havoc in a monastic order by adding LSD to the friars' drinking supply. A postmodern ranchera singer savors the taste of her own pumping heart. Mexican cinema is ripe with such subversive images: over the last sixty years scores of film- and video-makers have fractured narrative and toppled conventions in an avant-garde rebellion that has taken a myriad of subversive forms, and they are all sampled in this first-ever survey of experimental Mexican media arts. Edited by Rita Gonzáles and Jesse Lerner.

Mexperimental Cinema: 60 Years of Avant-garde Media Arts from Mexico

Rita Gonzalez

Smart Art Press

<i>ASCO: Elite of the Obscure</i> is the first comprehensive monograph to survey the wide-ranging activities of the Chicano performance and conceptual art group ASCO. Active between 1972 and 1987, ASCO began as a tight-knit core of artists from east Los Angeles: Harry Gamboa Jr., Gronk, Willie Herrón and Patssi Valdez. Taking their name from the Spanish idiomatic word for disgust and nausea, ASCO launched their response to turbulent socio-political conditions in Los Angeles and the larger international context through performance, public art and multimedia. Geographically and culturally segregated from the then-nascent Los Angeles contemporary art scene, and aesthetically at odds with the emerging Chicano art movement, ASCO united to explore and exploit what they saw as the unlimited media of the conceptual. <i>ASCO: Elite of the Obscure</i> includes reproductions of previously unpublished works and reprinted historical documents, along with new critical essays.

ASCO: Elite of the Obscure: A Retrospective 1972-1987

C. Ondine Chavoya

David E. James

Amelia Jones

Chon A. Noriega

Jesse Lerner

Deborah Cullen

Maris Bustamante

Colin Gunckel

David, Roman

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