DOC/UNDOC
Subtitle: Documentado/Undocumented Ars Shamánica Performática
By: texts Guillermo Gómez-Peña, images & bookwork Felicia Rice, video Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Gustavo Vazquez, critical commentary Jennifer González, sound art Zachary Watkins
Publisher: Moving Parts Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Santa Cruz, CA
Language: eng
Subjects: Noncitizens; Artists' books; Specimens; Identity (Philosophical concept) in art; Politics in art; Immigrants in art; Illegal immigration; Illegal aliens; Aliens
Other titles: Documentado/Undocumented Ars Shamánica Performática
Description: "In this sequel to Moving Parts Press's 1998 publication, CODEX ESPANGLIENSIS, Felicia collaborates once more with performance artist/writer Guillermo Gómez-Peña and art historian/critic Jennifer González, as well as video artist Gustavo Vazquez and sound artist/engineer Zachary Watkins"--Publisher's website.

"The object itself carries within a crisis of identity: What is it exactly? A stage for an intimate one-on-one performance? An unusual video screening room? A personal multi-media altar? A "vanity" used for preparing for a performance? It is all these things and it is also an original book devised by Felicia; a book in search of a new format and a new audience. Each element (the book itself, the vanity/altar box, the performance video, the critical essays, the aural experience) stands by itself, but together they form an indescribable whole. And it is precisely this whole that we are after--Guillermo Gómez-Peña"--Publisher's website.
Notes: Artists' book.

An edition of sixty-five copies of the accordion-fold book feature Gómez-Peña's performance texts and Rice's relief prints and typography. Critical commentary by González and other essays appear in an accompanying pamphlet. Vazquez and Gómez-Peña's video collaboration and Watkins' sound art are housed with the book and pamphlet in a clamshell book box. A deluxe edition of fifteen copies housed in aluminum cases contain a mirrored altar and a cabinet of ritual curiosities, "opening the case lights the altar and triggers Watkins' sound art, pressing buttons within brings up specific compositions"--Colophon

Accompanying DVD (31 minutes 15 seconds) contains performance art by Guillermo Gómez-Peña; accompanying CD contains sound art and commentary.

System requirements for accompanying audio and videodisc: audio and DVD player or computer workstation and audio and DVD-ROM drive.

This is copy no. 30 pf 65, signed by Jennifer A. González, Zachary Watkins, Felicia Rice and Gustavo Vasquez.