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Maya Escobar

Conceptual Identity Artist

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Negotiating Latina Identity through Performance Art on the Web

Andria and I will be presenting  Are You My Other? next week at the 2011 National Popular Culture Association Conference in San Antonio, TX.

Negotiating Latina Identity through Performance Art on the Webwith Maya Escobar and Andria Morales

Challenging mainstream and academic representations of Latina identity, performance artists Maya Escobar and Andria Morales publicly negate, deconstruct, and reconstruct their individual histories, identities, and conceptions of self. In their current project Are You My Other? a self-portrait dialog exchange blog, Escobar and Morales draw from popular culture, Latino/a cultural iconography, and their lived experiences to create and virtually perform conflicting representations of Latina selves. From devoted homemaker to hockey player, reggaetonera to construction worker, conceptual artist to human corn on the cob, the artists model the multiplicity of identity.

Due to their shared physical similarities, followers of their online exchange often mistake Escobar and Morales for one another. The merging of their identities is further perpetuated through their activities on social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. By locating these performances within the space of the web, where they are free from restrictions of time and place, the artists are able to concurrently enact multiple personas while simultaneously forming a unified (Latina) hybrid self.

tags: Andria Morales, Are You My Other?, conference, Escobar-Morales, Maya Escobar, PCA/ACA
categories: Are You My Other, Art, Latina, Pop Culture, social media
Thursday 04.14.11
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Somos Ana

“Please die Ana, for as long as you’re here we’re not.”-AM on  Are You My Other?

tags: Ana Mendieta, Are You My Other?
categories: Are You My Other, artista, curatorial, feminist
Tuesday 03.15.11
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Andria, The Fat Free Elotera, and I are featured in JEWCY

Maya Escobar in JewcyJewcy Art: Maya Escobarby Margarita Korol, February 24, 2011

In 2007 we dubbed her the Anti-Feminist Feminist Jewish Latina. We stumbled upon performance artist/ Internet curator/ editor Maya Escobar again at the GA in New Orleans where her video installations were making a Marina Abramovich-style scene near Jewcy’s booth. She uses the web as a platform for engaging in critical community dialogues that concern processes by which identities are socially and culturally constructed. She performs multiple identities, sampling widely from online representations of existing cultural discourses.

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tags: AMerican MEdiaOutput, Andria Morales, Are You My Other?, Escobar-Morales, Jewcy Magazine, Marina Abramovich, screenshot, The Fat Free Elotera
categories: Art, curatorial, intertextual, Jewish Life in America, Judaism, Latina, Maya Escobar, vida
Thursday 02.24.11
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Escobar-Morales Establishes Online Marketing Agency

AMerican MEdia Output

As a follow up to Are You My Other? our current Internet based self-portrait dialogue exchange project, Escobar-Morales is establishing an online marketing agency. Acting as designers, distributors, and promo models, we plan to produce a series of advertisements addressing contentious topics in the news, such as Arizona’s SB-1070 and the Dream Act.

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tags: AMerican MEdia Output, Andria Morales, Are You My Other?, Dream Act, Escobar-Morales, marketing, Maya Escobar, Promo Model, SB 1070, Wonder Women Residency
categories: Are You My Other, Art, news, Performance Text, social media
Thursday 01.20.11
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Shomer Negiah Panties HUGE SALE!!

For a limited time Shomer Negiah Panties will be available on Are You My Other? at 1 for $15 or 2 for $20.choose from: S-XL in Black & Hot Pink, Black & White, or White & Hot Pink

tags: Are You My Other?, Sale, shomer negiah panties
categories: Are You My Other, Judaism, Pop Culture, women
Thursday 01.13.11
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Finding Frida on Are You My Other?

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Earlier this week AM and I decided to add a search function to Are You My Other?We quickly discovered the unthinkable...Our fame-seeking Fat Free Elotera is NOT #1 search on our blog. Instead, this slot belongs to the one and only Frida Kahlo.Are You My Other? tag cloudHmm... I wonder how our little Elotera will respond.Are You My Other as the Two FridasLas Dos Locas

tags: Andria Morales, Are You My Other?, Frida Kahlo, Maya Escobar, Tag Cloud, The Fat Free Elotera, The Two Fridas
categories: Are You My Other, artista, blogging, Performance Text
Monday 12.06.10
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AM + ME Open Studios

AM and I visit each other's Studios on Are You My Other?AM BooksAM studioME BooksME Studio

tags: Andria Morales, Are You My Other?, arte, books, Internet Art, Studio
categories: Are You My Other, Are You My Other PROMO, artista, curatorial, Maya Escobar, Nuevos Compañeros, vida
Tuesday 11.23.10
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The Real ME

tags: Are You My Other?, Internet Art, ME
categories: Are You My Other, Art, artista, curatorial, Maya Escobar
Tuesday 10.12.10
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gallery of gifs

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Maya Escobar When Metanarratives CollideWhen Metanarratives CollideMaya Escobar Getting ReadyGetting ReadyMaya Rio Animated GifRio Prayed for La Virgenel es frida kahlo Maya Escobarel es frida kahlo

tags: Andria Morales, animated gif, Are You My Other?, el es frida kahlo, Internet Art, JAP, Rio Yañez, virgen de guadalupe
categories: Are You My Other, Art, curatorial, Frida Kahlo, Maya Escobar, new media art
Monday 09.06.10
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Photo Booth Pt 2

Maya Escobar Photo Booth Performance Art

Being a performance artist is fun. Having a mac allows you to seamlessly document your real life alongside your performance life. Can you tell which pictures are real and which ones are from performances?

tags: apple, Are You My Other?, flickr, Internet Art, mac, Performance Art, photo booth, photography, screenshot
categories: identity, intertextual, Maya Escobar, new media art, Performance Text, women
Friday 07.23.10
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