ABSTRACT
Guillermo Gómez-Peña is the best-known US Latinx theatre and performance artist, and the iconic representative of contemporary “border art.” Through live interaction with the audience, applying humor, multilingual poetry, and an aesthetic of the grotesque, his art practice aims at blowing up dominant ideas on fixed ethnic and sexual identities. This entry shows how his contributions to contemporary Latinx and Latin American theatre relate to his use of performance, not as a separate medium or discipline, but as an aggregated space that allows for unrestricted, transdisciplinary actions where paradox, ambiguity, and contradiction are not just tolerated, but encouraged.
