#mextasy / #textmex events, exhibition, reading/book signing in Seattle!!!!

Forget "Where's Waldo"!!!! The Textmex Galleryblog wants to know, "Where's the Mexican?"

Amatl Comix Latinx Graphic Narrative! aka COMICS!

The Mother of All Mexican Stereotypes, Diorama Edition #textmex #mextasy #sleepingmexican

What is Mextasy!? An Introduction to the Pop-Up "Circus of Desmadres" -- A Traveling Exhibition Coming Soon to a Gallery, Museum, or University Near You!

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 was originally curated by Leticia Gómez Franco for Casa Familiar, San Ysidro, California, and Rachel Freyman Brown, South Texas College, McAllen, Texas. Upcoming shows are at Iowa State University and the Nepantla Cultural Arts Center, Seattle, Washington. Its most recent shows were at Northwestern University, Wabash College, California State University, San Bernardino, and Franklin & Marshall College.

Mextasy both reflects on and expands upon 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.

Touch of Evil Lobby Card Auction! #textmex #mextasy #orsonwelles #touchofevil

Yet another entry from he #bizarrecaucasianbestiary -- another ongoing Textmex curatorial project...

From the "on sale" section of my Facebook newsfeed ...  more from the Caucasian Bestiary here.

Yikes!

Laredo and Deconstruction: Roland Barthes, Mojado!

I just ran across one of my publications--a photographic deconstruction of my hometown of Laredo, Texas--available as a preview on Google Books. It sports one of my longest titles (and that's saying a lot as most of my titles are huge, annoying my editors and typesetters to no end over the years!). 

It's called “Roland Barthes, Mojado, in Brownface: Chisme-laced Snapshots Documenting the Preposterous and Fact-laced Claim That the Postmodern Was Born along the Borders of the Río Grande River, " and appears in Performing the US Latina and Latino Borderlands, edited by Arturo J. Aldama, Chela Sandoval, and Peter Garcia.

Apple's Safari app sometimes has a hard time parsing Google's code--if the essay does not appear below, go here to see it.

 

Early #textmex Artifacts: Test Posting!

An early set of artifacts from the #textmex project, circa 2006... 

Coming this December from the OSU Press and the Fused Minds of Fede Aldama and Memo Nericcio... TALKING #browntv

Bossons' "Mexican" Chalk Figure! ack! #nomextasy

Preparations Full Steam Ahead for the Iowa State #Mextasy Pop-Up Exhibition and Lecture--Part of Their U.S. Latino/a Studies 25 Year Anniversary Symposium -- Saturday, September 28, 2019. Sun Room, Memorial Union

Preparations Full Steam Ahead for the Iowa State #Mextasy Pop-Up Exhibition and Lecture--Part of Their U.S. Latino/a Studies 25 Year Anniversary Symposium -- Saturday, September 28, 2019. Sun Room, Memorial Union

Jewish Solidarity Against Latina/o Victimization/Oppression by ICE: UPDATES via Twitter

Holocaust survivor Bernard Marks confronts ICE director Thomas Homan - and compares ICE raids to Nazis raids.#JewsAgainstICE

pic.twitter.com/BaMGARYjZS

— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) July 12, 2019

Protesters here are singing in Hebrew and Spanish, chanting and insisting they will not be moved. #DC police have blocked off the street outside #ICE headquarters, where a handful of protesters are dancing. No sign of arrests outside the building so far. pic.twitter.com/Zide3tCibe

— Marissa J. Lang (@Marissa_Jae) July 16, 2019

We are going to shut down business as usual until Congress shut down ICE. Don’t believe us? ⬇️ @NeverAgainActn @CosechaMovement pic.twitter.com/4CThRxjFkr

— Alyssa Rubin 🔥 (@aly_mixed_up) July 16, 2019

Test Posting: Publications by William Nericcio