Title:
Highways Opening Benefit--Cinco de Mayo Celebration
Creator/Contributor:
Centro Cultural de la Raza, Organizer
Date:
May 5, 1989
Subject:
Chicano art
Chicanos
Cinco de Mayo (Mexican holiday)
Mexican American art
Mexican Americans
Ships in art
Immigration
Installations (Art)
Crosses in art
Santa Monica (Calif.)
Columbus, Christopher
Note:
Performance commemorates Cinco de Mayo as well as providing commentary on Columbus' role in the decimation and exploitation
of native peoples. This photo is of a stage set or installation art for ambiance. On the ground is a ship dated October
12, 1492, and beneath it, a cross. Against the back wall is a picture of a crowd with their hands up, possibly at a third
reich rally. Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica. The picture is placed in a boat named "U.S.S. Amnesty". Text on
the boat reads, "If you catch an alien, you ought to clean 'em and try 'em yourself.- Hi Ezell." Ezell was the Western Regional
Commissioner for the Immigration Naturalization Services under Regan.
Cat.3 053(17)
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Type:
35mm slide
photography
Language:
English
Spanish
Identifier:
CEMA 12
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