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Nao Bustamante (b. September 3, 1969) is a performance artist and Associate Professor of New Media and Live Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Her work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation, and video art. Her work is exhibited and performed internationally, and frequently invoked in scholarship on contemporary Latina/o performance. Her practice is deeply engaged with projection and the mediated image: she is exploring a hybrid genre she calls "filmformance," in which the artist performs alongside and in relation to projection (e.g. Lifestyle and Silver and Gold).

She appeared in the first season Bravo Network show Work of Art: The Next Great Artist. She was eliminated in the fourth episode. The artist has claimed her appearance on this program as itself a form of social sculpture.[1] This reality television show appearance was anticipated by her 1992 performance "Rosa Does Joan," in which Bustamante was featured on an episode of The Joan Rivers Show. She had adopted the persona of a "stunt exhibitionist," and was interviewed in a show devoted to voyeurs and exhibitionists. [2]

References

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  1. ^ Jennifer Doyle, "Guest Stars" in Frieze (2010)>[1]
  2. ^ Muñoz, José (February 2012). ""The Vulnerability Artist". New York: Women and Performance. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |year= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help); Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help); Text ""The Vulnerability Artist: Nao Bustamante and the Sad Beauty of Reparation"" ignored (help)CS1 maint: year (link)
  • 2010 Jennifer Doyle, ["Guest Stars,"Frieze]
  • 2006 José Muñoz, "The Vulnerability Artist: Nao Bustamante and the Beauty of Reparation" in Women and Performance: a Journal of Feminist Theory

Further Reading

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  • 2007 Joshua Chambers Letson, "The Politics of Failure: Nao Bustamante's Hero" in The Drama Review pp. 174-181
  • 2002 "Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and 'American' Cannibal Reveries," In Latino Dreams: Transcultural Traffic and the U.S. National Imaginary by Paul Allatson, Rodopi Press, Amsterdam and New York, pp. 253-306. [Critical analysis of the performance "Stuff"]
  • 2000 "Stuff (collaborative script with Coco Fusco)" In Out of the Fringe: Contemporary Latina/Latino Theatre and Performance edited by Caridad Svich and Maria Teresa Marrero, Theatre Communications Group, New York, pp. 43-69
  • 1998 "Stuff (collaborative script with Coco Fusco)" in Theatre Drama Review, vol. 41, no. 4, pp. 63-82.
  • 1996 "The Chain South," Plazma Magazine
  • 1993 "Mother Tongue," Revista Parallax Journal
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