Anti-Pop Consortium, Paul Thomas Anderson, A-Trak of the Invisible Skratch Picklz, Derek Bailey with Ming Xiao-Fen, Byzar, Carl Craig, Datcyde, Del Mar, Sussan Deyhim, Atom Egoyan, FLMSCL, GOPOETRY.COM, Milford Graves, Grisha Coleman’s Hot Mouth, GusGus, Todd Haynes, Murray Hill, Mos Def, Not Four Walls Slide and Film Club, Pat Oleszko, Odi, Mike Patton, Roc Raida of the X-ecutioners, Pamela Sneed, Wally, We+Soul Coughing, Reggie Workman

June 16-27, 1998
Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage
Photo courtesy of Creative Time

Art in the Anchorage 15 combined Creative Time’s ongoing Art in the Anchorage and Music in the Anchorage series, as eight nights of programming blended multimedia works, performance art, and live music. A wide array of artists descended on the Anchorage throughout the summer to present works focused on the increasing dialogue between music, video, film, and performance. Art in the Anchorage 15 also featured Absolut Panushka, which offered visitors the unique opportunity to create their own animated films using innovative online animation software.

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Guillermo Gómez-Peña with Roberto Sifuentes and Sara Shelton Mann

June 1-28, 1998
Citywide and El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue
Photo © Eileen Travo

Part Tex-Mex rave, part freak-show extravaganza, and part museum of the apocalypse, El Mexterminator was an interactive performance series that traced a new ethnographic and cultural map of Mexican New York with impromptu public appearances, conceptual ads, posters, and radio public service announcements. Utilizing new media as an effective venue for art projects, Gómez-Peña and Sifuentes hosted a live Internet chatroom and a radio call-in show during which individuals were encouraged to participate as their “favorite cultural avatars” in order to discuss their fears and desires of the cultural “other” as well as reflect on the horror of a country perceived to be under seige by immigrants and people of color. After gathering information from people regarding these topics, El Mexterminator performed “Techno-Museo de Etnografia Interactiva” at El Museo del Barrio, an event which featured performances shaped by the audience’s prior interactions with these ethno-cyborgs and new technologies, thereby creating an embodiment of the participants’ own psychological and cultural monsters.

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