Border Consciousness and Artivist Aesthetics: Richard Lou’s Performance and Multimedia Artwork

Border Consciousness and Artivist Aesthetics: Richard Lou’s Performance and Multimedia Artwork

This essay explores Richard Lou’s distinguished career as an artist, from his early work in San Diego/Tijuana in the 1980s to his current installation and performance pieces on topics such as hybrid identities, counter-storytelling, nationalism, and cultures of oppression. The diversity of his theme...

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Main Author: Guisela Latorre
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Göttingen University Press 2012-05-01
Series:American Studies Journal
Subjects:
United States
America
Mexico
California
San Diego
Tijuana
border
borderlands
culture
multimedia installation
identity
performances
Online Access:http://www.asjournal.org/archive/57/216.html
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Border Consciousness and Artivist Aesthetics: Richard Lou’s Performance and Multimedia Artwork
American Studies Journal
United States
America
Mexico
California
San Diego
Tijuana
border
borderlands
culture
multimedia installation
identity
performances
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title Border Consciousness and Artivist Aesthetics: Richard Lou’s Performance and Multimedia Artwork
title_short Border Consciousness and Artivist Aesthetics: Richard Lou’s Performance and Multimedia Artwork
title_full Border Consciousness and Artivist Aesthetics: Richard Lou’s Performance and Multimedia Artwork
title_fullStr Border Consciousness and Artivist Aesthetics: Richard Lou’s Performance and Multimedia Artwork
title_full_unstemmed Border Consciousness and Artivist Aesthetics: Richard Lou’s Performance and Multimedia Artwork
title_sort border consciousness and artivist aesthetics: richard lou’s performance and multimedia artwork
publisher Göttingen University Press
series American Studies Journal
issn 1433-5239
publishDate 2012-05-01
description This essay explores Richard Lou’s distinguished career as an artist, from his early work in San Diego/Tijuana in the 1980s to his current installation and performance pieces on topics such as hybrid identities, counter-storytelling, nationalism, and cultures of oppression. The diversity of his themes, coupled with the multiplicity of the artistic media he utilizes, points to the decisively unstable and overlapping identities he possesses as an artist yet firmly establishes the decolonizing and politically transformative mission of his œuvre.
topic United States
America
Mexico
California
San Diego
Tijuana
border
borderlands
culture
multimedia installation
identity
performances
url http://www.asjournal.org/archive/57/216.html
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