Companion book – DOC/UNDOC Documentado/Undocumented Ars Shamánica Performatica

Companion book:
DOC/UNDOC Documentado/Undocumented Ars Shamánica Performática
Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Jennifer A. González, Felicia Rice, Gustavo Vazquez, Zachary James Watkins

Paperback with USB drive of sound and video
8.25″ x 12.25″
88 pages
ISBN 978-0-87286-7208
$35

The journey of DOC/UNDOC continues with the publication of a widely accessible, affordable book that not only documents the original project, but also provides a reader with their own interactive, immersive experience.

City Lights Books and Moving Parts Press have collaborated to produce a trade paperback LIMITED EDITION of DOC/UNDOC, which includes reproductions of the fifteen prints from the original codex, along with the performance scripts by Guillermo Gómez-Peña embedded in each image. Also included is an Introduction by Felicia Rice that tells the story of the collaboration from its conception to completion. In addition, art historian/critic Jennifer Gonzalez’s essay explains the historical, artistic and political context in which this piece was conceived. The book features the original video and sound art on a usb drive to provide the reader with a fully interactive, immersive experience.

This 88-page book presents every aspect of the original collaborative artists’ book, including fifteen prints, performance scripts, and essays, with sound and video on a USB drive. 

The book is the result of a close collaboration between Moving Parts Press and City Lights Books. It is the second such collaboration. The first one was the CODEX ESPANGLIENSIS, a facsimile of the original artists’ book published in 1998. Learn more about the original CODEX ESPANGLIENSIS here and order the trade edition here.

“Felicia Rice is one of the most exemplary book artists in the United States. Her collaborations with Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Enrique Chagoya have transcended every tradition and formal expectation that we have concerning the book as a work of art. Her new collaboration with Gómez-Peña, Doc/Undoc, is a brilliant exposition of the best of two worlds—art and political action.”  —Peter Rutledge Koch, The Codex Foundation

“The bleeding flaming heart of this book is a cornucopia of shamanic defenses against racism. It’s a magical toolbox filled with implements to use for safe border crossings, a prayerbook for the deconstruction of oppressive stereotypes, and a guide for the creation of liberated identities and revolutionary entities. This is not a book to be just read, it’s a book to be performed, enacted and realized.”  —Marshall Weber, Artist/Curator at Booklyn

“ . . . the new edition of DOC/UNDOC more than merits a reading. . . . a sequel of sorts to [Codex Espangliensis: From Columbus to the Border Patrol] that extraordinary volume, DOC/UNDOC: Documentado/Undocumented Ars Shamánica Performática constitutes a more thoroughgoing effort to ‘re/imagine the future of bookmaking’ as a collaborative process that encompasses multiple media (‘old’ and ‘new’) and makers. . . . The oversize volume commences with striking, high resolution color photographs of the case opened to display the objects packed inside, as well as the mirrors affixed to it lid.  Though you won’t see yourself or your masked personae in these images of mirrors, the edition does elicit less literal forms of reflection—personal and political—facilitated by the bookwork, which take the pains and pleasures of identity formation and transformation as its major subject.”  —Jennifer Buckley, TDR: The Drama Review