Guillermo Gomez Pena 2

El Aztec Vampire
Around the same time, the subject used to simultaneously impersonate an aztec and a vampire. His true objectives were always hidden behind obscure academic jargon: “I wish to deconstruct romantic notions of the Mexican Other and reveal the actual deconstruction process during the performance. If I bite you precisely when you desire me the most, you may have a binational epiphany.”
El Stelark de Tijuana
By 1997, the subject became interested in new technologies. He wrote extensively about “racism on the net” and developed the concept of “poetic (or rather useless) technologies,” meaning “technologies with strictly aesthetic or ritual purposes.” Here, he is allegedly making fun of an Australian techno-artist named Stelarc. The original photo caption read: “What if Stelarc had been born in Tijuana?”
Los Rockeros
In this photo, the subject, his accomplice (and probably lover) Sifuentes and their pet chicken impersonate what appears to be guerrilla rockers for a poster to publicize an “art project” titled “Dangerous Border Games.” During the performance Sifuentes apparently beat the chicken to a pulp with a police baton while the subject sang “Hotel California” in Spanish.
El Chamán Travesti
As a means to confuse authorities even more, the subject has been consistently practicing transvestitism since his late teens. In this 2003 photograph, he made a suspicious visit to El Alamo wearing female tribal couture. From 2003 to 2005 there were sightings of El Chaman Travesti at a Lebanese Restaurant in Las Vegas, an anarchist book fair in Austin, a Cuban salsa club in New York, and an illegal alien cultural center named Galeria de la Raza in San Francisco.
Los Evil Others
Since 9/11, the subject has repeatedly stated in writing and in interview form his desire to “collaborate” with Arabic artists based in the US and Europe “in order to compare notes regarding the demonization of the brown body.” During an “experimental arts festival” titled “Detox” which took place in Norway (2004), the subject photographed himself next to Egyptian “artist” Hosni Elhannaoui in clear defiant stance. Mr. Elhannaoui might actually be Cesar Martinez, another Mexican collaborator of the subject, posing as an Egyptian.