next:

i like mexico and mexico likes me

an installation

in this work,

i like mexico and mexico likes me

i am going to perform a dangerous action, and i don’t know what the results will be.

for three days, i am going to lock myself inside the gallery with a jalapeño pepper, here in downtown phoenix.

it will be just me and the jalapeño pepper, where we will have to negotiate with each other, figuring out how to contend with our own hybrid identities.  it scares me, but because i am a humanist, and because i am a sensitive artist, i can admit that i wonder if the jalapeño pepper is also scared of me.

i will post some of the results of the performance here, and some of these will be presented at the millennium sideshow

march 20th, 2010

at deus ex machina

stay tuned...

on the eve of the morning after the morning in america that turned into early afternoon, the time when most of the tired people are starting to take naps, we are just starting to wake up, just in time to reflect on war.

war in the desert, it’s a time for war in the desert, over there boys over there, in afghanistan, in irak, in pakistan, in syria, and it’s war in the desert here between one country and another, in the sonoran desert.

where it becomes apparent that the fruits of this country, literally, are carried on the backs of workers, literally, a civilized discourse would welcome the poor, the oppressed, the hungry...but it’s hard to hear over the roar of indifference, and it’s time to make a choice.  honoring the dead as a matter of reflex, and honoring the living as a matter of common sense.

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Welcome to the official website for Theater In My Basement/SW Annex (aka TIMB, aka the BASEMENT, aka not aka 47, we are revolutionaries but not in armed resistance, pero vive la résistance...!)

We are Phoenix-based and dedicated to experimental performance, creating new, transcultural works of mediated visceral intelligence, and participating in all manner of collaborations (dada, zapatista, free trade coffee, rhizomatic speaking subjects, body art, glue).

Arriba arriba,

TIMB

http://www.myspace.com/sotano

We are dedicated to work that addresses where we are geographically and philosophically, and are interested in investigating the places where these intersect on a mutually determined glocal table/playing field. As a collective, we are already born with many tongues, and some of us have two or three, which makes speech difficult but entirely possible. We are developing a style of performance that speaks to bilingual (and multilingual) audiences, utilizing subaltern, alternative modes of presentation, technologically and philosophically reconfiguring the dna of a post-consumer idea of a thought of a notion. We do not dance.

To contact us, send an email to chris@timb.org or teatrocaliente@gmail.com

We are a Non-Profit, with 501(c)(3) status, and do accept tax-deductable donations. To make a donation, send a check payable to TIMB and mail to:

TIMB

915 W. Fillmore St.

Phoenix, AZ 85007

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Mandar obedeciendo."