Verbobala Spoken Video Presents BORDER REMIXEADO at Bowery Poetry Club

Verbobala Spoken Video (Mexico City / Tucson, Arizona) presents ground-breaking multimedia performance piece "Border Remixeado," at the Bowery Poetry Club.

Please join us Friday, March 12th for an eye opening evening beginning at 7pm with performance group Verbobala Spoken Video. The event will take place at The Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery, (Between Houston and Bleecker). Take the 6th to Bleecker, F/V to Sccond Ave. For more info please call 212-614-0505 or www.bowerypoetry.com.

"Border Remixeado," explores the land, identity and politics of the Arizona-Mexico border region through live video projections, bilingual spoken word and performance art. Composed of a series of ten interconnected vignettes, the piece moves from the militarized border into the politics of English, and from there into racial stereotyping and deconstruction of identity symbols. Over the course of the show, a wide range of emotions, tones and media are drawn upon to take audiences to familiar subjects in unfamiliar ways. "Border Remixeado" challenges us to rethink the borders that are drawn between artistic genres, countries, languages and peoples. Part video-art and part poetry, the piece is an engrossing intersection of cutting-edge digital media and age-old oral tradition.

Verbobala Spoken Video is an interdisciplinary performance collective based in Mexico City and Tucson, Arizona. Of diverse ethnic backgrounds, the members include Mexican video artist Moisés Regla, Chicano media designer Adam Cooper-Terán and Logan Phillips. Live performances frequently include DJ Emmett White. Moisés Regla is a new-media artist from Mexico City whose work ranges from video art and installation to live performance that mixes moving images with multiple disciplines such as theater, dance, and spoken word. Adam Cooper-Terán is an award-winning independent media artist whose work focuses on meta-sampling using the Internet as a medium in and of itself. Methods become similar to DJing, cooking or Lego-building and subjects explore a range of topics including (but not limited to) pornography, holography, urban sprawl, portraiture, terrorism, linguistics, history, world news, and all things paranormal, mystical or unexplained. American poet Logan Phillips is a bilingual writer, poet and performer originally from the Arizona-Mexico borderlands. He is a veteran of the American poetry slam movement, having ranked nationally in competitions and toured throughout his native Southwest and beyond-to cities including Paris, New York City, and Penzance, England. Musician and DJ Emmett White has played over 500 shows in the last four years from DIY basement dance parties to some of the largest clubs. Influenced by the Arizona soundscape and by his studies of native languages at Northern Arizona University, his recent explorations have sent him as far as Panama and central Mexico, following the migratory rhythms of las Américas. This, in combination with years spent in the underground punk rock scene, has led Emtron to understand the shared experience of music as transcendental, and dancing as a political act.

Hosting between 20 and 30 shows a week the Bowery Poetry Club is proud of our place in the lineage of populist art: the Yiddish theater, burlesque, vaudeville, beat poetry, jazz, and punk that gave the Bowery its name.