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Video Cortaditos & Picante Performance Poems
Cyber Activism in Pandemic Times
Video Cortaditos & Picante Performance Poems
Cyber Activism in Pandemic Times
VIDEO CORTADITOS & Picante Performance Poems
is an audio visual series of provocative YouTube shorts created by performance activist José Torres-Tama (JTT) during the pandemic while sheltering-in-place in the early lockdown from April to June 2020. They are informed by his politically charged spoken word poems. Bruce France created some of the dynamic video designs in the first three pieces with hallucinatory soundscapes
of JTT’s long-time music collaborator known as BAIII.
The stage performance photos were captured
by Craig Morse and Tshombe Tshanti.
These provocative videos are creative responses to the the Confederate-flag-waving right-wing militias in Michigan; the urgent situation of undocumented immigrants infected of Covid 19
in the crowded captivity of rural Louisiana ICE Detention Prisons; and the
Black Lives Matter protest of unjust killings of unarmed
African American civilians by white police.
Symbolic Opponent Syndrome / SOS / Remembering the Dispossessed
is the longest short at 10:15 mins and plays like a mini-doc dedicated to the memory of
Ahmad Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd,
These Picante Performance Video Poems are precursors to JTT's forthcoming spoken word and music sound-art project and EP called Speaking Truth to Perverse Power Vol. I.
It will be released on various music platforms in the very near future of the sci-fi fiction year 2021.
The VIDEO CORTADITOS been featured as part of JTT's new program called
Cyber Activism During Pandemic Times,
and used as educational tools at the
University of Virginia, UC Davis' Imagining America Virtual Conference,
and St. Mary's College Dept of Literature VOICES Program.
y of Virginia
VIDEO CORTADITOS & Picante Performance Poems
is an audio visual series of provocative YouTube shorts created by performance activist José Torres-Tama (JTT) during the pandemic while sheltering-in-place in the early lockdown from April to June 2020. They are informed by his politically charged spoken word poems. Bruce France created some of the dynamic video designs in the first three pieces with hallucinatory soundscapes
of JTT’s long-time music collaborator known as BAIII.
The stage performance photos were captured
by Craig Morse and Tshombe Tshanti.
These provocative videos are creative responses to the the Confederate-flag-waving right-wing militias in Michigan; the urgent situation of undocumented immigrants infected of Covid 19
in the crowded captivity of rural Louisiana ICE Detention Prisons; and the
Black Lives Matter protest of unjust killings of unarmed
African American civilians by white police.
Symbolic Opponent Syndrome / SOS / Remembering the Dispossessed
is the longest short at 10:15 mins and plays like a mini-doc dedicated to the memory of
Ahmad Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and George Floyd,
These Picante Performance Video Poems are precursors to JTT's forthcoming spoken word and music sound-art project and EP called Speaking Truth to Perverse Power Vol. I.
It will be released on various music platforms in the very near future of the sci-fi fiction year 2021.
The VIDEO CORTADITOS been featured as part of JTT's new program called
Cyber Activism During Pandemic Times,
and used as educational tools at the
University of Virginia, UC Davis' Imagining America Virtual Conference,
and St. Mary's College Dept of Literature VOICES Program.
y of Virginia
