Walking Mural

ASCO

dc.coverage.spatial	Performance location: Los Angeles (California, United States)	en_US
dc.creator	ASCO	en_US
dc.date	1972
dc.date.accessioned	2007-07-18T19:50:38Z
dc.date.available	2007-07-18T19:50:38Z
dc.date.issued	1972
dc.identifier	027959	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1721.3/19877	en_US
dc.description	Patssi Valdez was the "Virgen de Guadalupe-in-black," Willie Herron was "the mural that walked against the ugliness of urban street life," and Gronk was "the inverted Xmas tree in three green chiffon dresses" on Whittier Boulevard in East Los Angeles, in one of Asco's first street performances in 1972. "Our look was incredibly stylized," Gamboa recalls. "Our credo was 'If you can walk, wear it,'" Asco's "No-movies" were scenes created to resemble stills from a movie ("projecting the real while rejecting the reel," said Gamboa). Their goal was to confront people with Chicano life and its importance to the city, and to give a public voice to Chicano artists in unexpected ways (High Performance, no. 35, 1986, p. 51)	en_US
dc.description	general view	en_US
dc.format.medium	people (agents)	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	120812	en_US
dc.subject	Mexican Americans	en_US
dc.subject	Performance art	en_US
dc.subject	Religion	en_US
dc.subject	City and town life	en_US
dc.subject	Conceptual art	en_US
dc.subject	Guadalupe, Our Lady of	en_US
dc.subject	Street art	en_US
dc.subject	Christmas	en_US
dc.subject	Los Angeles (Calif.)	en_US
dc.title	Walking Mural	en_US
dc.type	Image	en_US
dc.rights.access	All rights reserved	en_US
dc.identifier.vendorcode	10	en_US
vra.culturalContext	American	en_US
vra.technique	performing	en_US
vra.technique	walking	en_US
vra.worktype	Performance art	en_US
dc.contributor.display	artist collective: Asco (American)	en_US