What is Mextasy? --> 2023-2024 Edition! The Pop-Up "Circus of Desmadres" -- A Traveling Exhibition Coming Soon to a Gallery, Museum, or University Near You!

~ Last updated September 23, 2023  ~

#Mextasy is back! 2023-2024

Mextasy: Seductive Hallucinations of Latina/o Mannequins Prowling the American Unconscious is a traveling pop-up or gallery-based art show/exhibit based on the work of William "Memo" Nericcio and Guillermo Nericcio García. 

The traveling exhibition or "Circus of Desmadres" was originally curated by Leticia Gómez Franco for Casa Familiar, San Ysidro, California, and Rachel Freyman Brown, South Texas College, McAllen, Texas. Recents shows include exhibitions/performances at Boise State University,  UC Riverside (virtual via Zoom, thx Covid!)  Iowa State University and the Nepantla Cultural Arts Center, Seattle, Washington--other noteworthy gigs include performances at Northwestern University, Wabash College, California State University, San Bernardino, and Franklin & Marshall College.

Mextasy is re-imagined, interactive art and artifact exhibition that grew out of Nericcio's 2007 American Library Association award-winning book with UT Press, Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the Mexican in America. 

In addition to racist artifacts from American mass culture (the bread and butter of Uncle Sam's unconscious and the backstory for the resurgence in anti-Mexican, anti-Latina/o peoples presently), the show also features works that is "xicanosmotic," that is, works by Mexican-American artists where the delicious fusion of the Mexican/US borderlands/frontera is writ large as in the deliriously delicious artistic tracings of Raul Gonzalez III, Perry Vasquez, Rafaella Suarez, and Izel Vargas. Visitors to this page interested in having MEXTASY invade their local gallery/university of choice should contact us here.

Yet Another Moment in the History of American Print Culture, Mexican Stereotypes Edition

 

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The old warhorse … artif[r]acture, an essay on comics, lit departments, and more — key cameos by Los Bros Hernandez, Thomas Pynchon, and Dan Clowes …

 

2023 Labor Day Sale on All Mextasy, Eyegiene, and Other Assorted Swag!

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All #mextasy and #eyegiene gear is 30% today, a Labor Day sale -- All T-shirts are 13 bucks! -- See Zapata here: 

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POETRY WITHOUT BORDERS‼️ Fall 2024 Festival of All Star Poets (Plus Me and Mayki-ki)‼️

 

Los Brothers Hernandez, Dan Clowes, Thomas Pynchon, and More All Have Key Cameos!

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Lucha Libre, Chicano Style! Gustavo Arellano vs. Eva Longoria

One of the Things That Makes me Happiest is Doing Outreach Work Trying to Convince Little Ones to Come to College ...Today it Was Porter Elementary Fourth Graders Visiting SDSU!

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The Border and Beyond: Bill Nericcio in Conversation with Ronald Rael #repost #craftjournal

 

A quick chat with Ronald Rael on the border and more (watch for the Izel Vargas cameo) in #craftdesert … a dreamy radzine by Kerianne Quick and Adam Manley

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rPmQndxs3eQGwgBQkfa0FDEGVsnJatA-/view?usp=drivesdk

#borders #borderstudies #lafrontera #ronaldrael

Follow my evolving work as an illustrator by surveilling the hashtag #sketchwn

 

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Tex[t]-Mex and #Mextasy Invading Houston, Texas, May 4, 2023 at Houston Community College (Downtown!)

 

Mextasy, Eyegiene, and Other Assorted Semiotic Trifles On Sale at My TeePublic Shoppe!

Lalo Alcaraz Invades SDSU on Wednesday, March 22, 2023 -- #Mextasy hits SDSU

Lalo Alcaraz on Latinos and the Oscars!

Latino presence at the Oscars 2023. #AcademyAwards Please share #laloalcaraz cartoons pic.twitter.com/AjI5yQhhh9

— Lalo Alcaraz (@laloalcaraz) March 10, 2023

¡South of the Border Psycho or Hitchcock Goes #Mextasy!