Credits
Ana Baer-Carrillo: choreography, video, concept
Randy Gibson: music
Works
Alicia
Anger
Aqua Madora
La Balada del Güetback
City_M-Y
Doleo Æternus
i left you on a cold day in december
Jetta
Mémoire-en-Ciel
Mujeres de Juárez
One Wall
Pressure
Room
Shiver
Two Sides
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.
La Balada del Güetbac’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.
Realizations
January 30-February 22, 2004
World Premiere
Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder Colorado
