La Pocha Nostra: A Handbook for the Rebel Artist in a Post-Democratic Society

Cover
Half Title
Endorsement
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of contents
Special thanks
Preface
Chapter 1 “Pochology” in a post-democratic society: A book introduction
	Planetary Pocha
	The People: Pocha History as Legacy of Dismemberment
	Pedagogy
	Participation
	References
Chapter 2 Soundscapes for dark times: A border pedagogy for resistance: An introduction
	The Genesis of Our Ideas
		Track: Nortec collective, Tijuana, 2003
	A Brief History of the Pocha Method
		Tracks: Classic songs by The Jesus and Mary Chain, Echo &  the Bunnymen, Antony and the Johnsons, and the ...
	The Post-Democratic Era
		Tracks: A mix of Mexican hip-hop bands, AKWID, Cartel de Santa and Gran Silencio, any border town, 2011–2017
	What is the New Pocha Playlist?
		Tracks: Scratch and mix from classical European composers and Native American drumming to Chicano hip hop,  ...
Chapter 3 The 2019 Pocha Nostra Manifesto for a “Post-Democratic Era”
Chapter 4 What to expect from a Pocha workshop
Chapter 5 Important notes to producers and workshop facilitators
	The Call for Participants and the Selection Process
	Identifying and Preparing the Space in Advance
		The choice of space
		Lighting
		Sound equipment and live music
	The Prop and Costume “Pop Archeological” Station
	The Hospitality and Rest Station
	The Dilemmas of Having Occasional Visitors
Chapter 6 Notes to workshop participants
Chapter 7 Radical pedagogy for a  post-democratic society: A pedagogical introduction
	From the Borders of my Identity to the Community of Rebel Artists …
	A Chicano Quantical Journey of Crossing and Queering Borders and Envisioning New Frontiers – Radical Pedagogy Episode ...
	The Format of Our Pedagogical Exercises
	Our Teaching Approach
	The Exercises
Chapter 8 Performance exercises, rituals, and games to cross borders
	Section 1: “Hands-On” Physical and Perceptual Exercises
	Physical Warm-Ups, Stretching and Breathing Exercises
		The monkey-breathing dance
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
		The glitch dance
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
		The skeleton dance
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
		Collective choreography
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
	Perceptual Exercises
		Working in the dark
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
		Part 1: Walk in the dark
			Process
			Expansion
		Part 2: Forming communities in the darkness
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
		Running blind
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
		The gaze
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
		Creative Indian wrestling
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
		Part 1: Basic Indian wrestling (10 minutes)
		Part 2: Defying gravity with Indian wrestling (10 minutes)
		Part 3: Creative Indian wrestling (10 minutes)
		The Aikido/chess game
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
		Poetic ethnography
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
		Part 1: Forming partners and clarifying instructions
			Process
		Part 2: Multi-sensorial exploration of the human body
			Facilitation
			Process
		Part 3: Handling and manipulating another human body while in performance mode
			Process
		Human puppets and dancing doppelgangers
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
	Section 2: Exercises to Generate Performance Material and Living Images
		Activating the “prop archaeology bank”
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
		Creating tableaux vivants
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
		Series 1: One-on-one: Constructing a live image on  someone else
			Process
			Expansion
		Series 2: Collaborative tableaux vivants
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
		Series 3: Group creations: Instant “living museums”
			Facilitation
			Process
		Staging your conceptual funeral and rebirth
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
		Creating and inhabiting your post-apocalyptic home and barrio
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
		Human collective altars
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
		Guerilla interventions into multiple spaces (indoors/outdoors)
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
		Compositional triptychs
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
		Lowrider Chicanx biomechanics
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
		Part 1: Collective sculpture
		Part 2: Teaching the cyborg how to move like a human
			Expansion
		The Pocha catwalk
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
		Catwalk 1: The different body catwalk
			Process
		Catwalk 2: Creative catwalk with primary look
			Process
		Catwalk 3: Catwalk with Photo Karaoke
			Process
	Section 3: Conceptual and Poetic Exercises, Opening Spaces of Inquiry
		Poetic introductions
			Context and Objectives
			Process
		Poetic exquisite corpse
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
		Daily questions on performance art and group discussions
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
				Option 1
				Option 2
			Expansion
		Group discussions
		The illustrated body
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
		Forty performance actions pulled out of a hat
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
		Radical psychomagic acts for personal change
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
		Our planet as human body
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
		Magical chess
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
	Section 4: The Infamous Pocha Nostra  “Jam Sessions”
		Basic jam session
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
				Step 1: Five minutes
				Step 2: Ten minutes
				Step 3: Ten minutes
				Step 4: Ten minutes
			Expansion
				Strategy 1
				Strategy 2
				Strategy 3
				Strategy 4
				Strategy 5
		“Stop-and-go” jam session
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
		Advanced jam session
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
				Suggestions for livening up the jam session
			Expansion
		The ultimate jam session
			Facilitation
			Process
	Section 5: Refining Your Performance Personas
		“Stylizing” your performance persona
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
		Activating your performance persona
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
			Expansion
	Section 6: Devising a Pedagogical Public Performance
		Discussing the nature of the performance material
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
		Choosing the performance event format
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
		Determining the final roles of the workshop participants
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
	Section 7: Producing and “Rehearsing” the Final Performance
	“Rehearsal” mode
	Production mode
		Activating the performance environment
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
		Activating production mode
			Context and Objectives
			Facilitation
			Process
				12–1 PM production meeting
				1–3 PM performance design crew works
				3–5 PM performance crew preparations
				5–6 PM, personal rituals and meal break
				6–7 PM, transition into performance mode
				7–7:30 PM, group ritual
				8 PM, performance begins!
				Tongues
	Section 8: La Pocha Nostra Pedagogical Matrix for Workshops
	Day 1
		Welcome
		Hands-on and Perceptual Matrix Section
		Break
		Conceptual and Creative Matrix Section
	Day 2
		Hands-on and Perceptual Matrix Section
		Break
		Conceptual and Creative Matrix Section
	Day 3
		Hands-on and Perceptual Matrix Section
		Break
		Conceptual and Creative Matrix Section
	Day 4
		Hands-on and Perceptual Matrix Section
		Break
		Conceptual and Creative Matrix Section
	Day 5
		Hands-on and Perceptual Matrix Section
		Break
		Conceptual and Creative Matrix Section
	Day 6
	Day 7
		Break
	Day 8
		Break
	Day 9
		Break
	Day 10
Chapter 9 With love from the trenches: Further techniques and reflections from Pocha and our partners in crime
	Section 1: Candid Conversation Amongst La Pocha Nostra Members on the Specific Challenges we are Facing in a  ...
		TRACK 1: Pocha productions in the throes of the Trumpocalypse
		TRACK 2: Extreme survival, reinvention, and the nude body
		TRACK 3: Anarchic utopias and pedagogical urgencies
		TRACK 4: Blind nationalism and the redemptive gift of radical hospitality
		TRACK 5: The closing rituals of La Pocha Nostra
	Section 2: Some Advice for Emerging Performance Artists
	Section 3: Cities of the “Apocalypse”: Producing Self-Sustainable Creative Zones. Athens, Greece; Tijuana, Mexico; and …
		Chronicle 1: Athens in flames! Being under the ruins of the European Union financial crisis
		Chronicle 2: Tijuana in war! Being in the trenches of the US anti-immigrant laws and the drug cartels’ insidious violence
		Chronicle 3: Costa Rica flooded! Avoiding drowning in the turbulent waters of repressive Catholic morality
	Section 4: “Rituals for Devising Resistance”: A Pocha Performance Menu
	Section 5: Making the Most of Your Beautiful Arrests
	Section 6: The Unnoticed City: Urban Radical Interventions Against Invisible Bodies
	Section 7: How to Use Voice in the Pocha Nostra Method
		Relationship to self
		Relationship to the space and others
		Relationship to technology
		Relationship to writing
Chapter 10 Sound outs for radical inclusion
: Poetry and testimony unleashed by the Pocha method
	Section 1: Poetic/Performance Texts Generated by Workshop Participants
	Section 2: My Transformation From Prima Ballerina to Deviant Performance Artist
	Section 3: Artaud on Steroids: My Journey from Actor to Performance Artist
	Section 4: The Ecosexual Manifesto 3.0
	Section 5: About A Joint Methodology and Educational Experience with LA Pocha Nostra and Vestandpage
	Section 6: You, You’Re my Undigested Trauma: A Feminist Manifesto Before #Metoo
	Section 7: On The Impact of New Technologies in Live Art: The Necro-Techno Complex
		References
	Section 8: Letter to a Radical Mom
	Section 9: “It is Time for Us” and “Notes from a Revolution Yet to be Witnessed”
		It is time for us
		Notes from a revolution yet to be witnessed
	Section 10: Staging for Inclusion: Working with the Nude Body
	Section 11: The Anti-Manifesto 2018 (An Example of a Collective Group Performance Text)
Index