Nao Bustamante is an internationally known performance art pioneer originating from the San Joaquin Valley of California. Her work encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation, video art, pop music and experimental rips in time. Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ... The eight-county San Joaquin Valley is the part of the Central Valley of California that lies south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta in Stockton. ... Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Senators Dianne Feinstein (D) Barbara Boxer (D) Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... Performance art is art where the actions of an individual or a group at a particular place and in a particular time, constitute the work. ... Image:Greekgod. ... Installation can be used to refer to Installation (computer programs) of an operating system or program. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Jump to: navigation, search in its more recent sense, as a subgenre of popular music. ... From Latin ex- + -periri (akin to periculum attempt). ...

International Artist

Bustamante's work has been presented, among other sites at, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts, and the KiasmaMuseum of Helsinki. She has performed in Galleries, Museums, Universities and underground sites throughout Asia, North Africa, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Mexico and of course the United States. Her collaborations include working with such luminaries as Coco Fusco and Osseus Labrint. In 2001 she received the prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman fellowship. Currently she is living in Troy, New York and holds the position as Assistant Professor of New Media and Live Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. gallery may be short for Art gallery a gallery is an element in architecture, a long hallway flanked with walls or rows of columns Gallery is an open-source package that allows users to create and manage image galleries on their web sites. ... A museum is a non-profit making, permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, communicates and exhibits, for purposes of study, education and enjoyment, the tangible and intangible evidence of people and their environment. ... Jump to: navigation, search World map showing Asia (geographically) Asia is the central and eastern part of Eurasia and worlds largest continent. ... North Africa is a region generally considered to include: Algeria Egypt Libya Mauritania Morocco Sudan Tunisia Western Sahara The Azores, Canary Islands, Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Madeira are sometimes considered to be a part of North Africa. ... World map showing Europe (geographically) When considered a continent, Europe is the worlds second-smallest continent in terms of area, with an area of 10,600,000 km² (4,140,625 square miles), making it larger than Australia only. ... Looking out on Broadway in downtown Troy. ... Jump to: navigation, search New Media is the field of study that has developed around cultural practices with the computer playing a central role as the medium for production, storage and distribution. ... Live Art was the fifth album released by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones and their first non-studio album. ... Jump to: navigation, search Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, or RPI, is a university in Troy, New York, near Albany, founded in 1824 by Stephen Van Rensselaer. ...

Controversy

Her role as an academic and performance artist became contraversial during the famous recall election of Governor Gray Davis in California, where her eldest brother, Lieutenant Governor of California, Cruz Bustamante ran against "The Terminator" or also known as "Governator" Arnold Schwarzenegger. During the Campaign, Nao Bustamante's seen as cutting edge in the art world was not very popular among conservative California voters, and in order to discredit Cruz in any way, his sister Nao's art work was criticized in the media. The term recall has a number of meanings: Product recall A recall election Recall to employment after a layoff Recall from memory. ... Joseph Graham Davis Jr. ... Jump to: navigation, search Cruz Miguel Bustamante (born January 4, 1953) is an American politician. ... The word terminator is from Latin and means roughly the finisher. ... Jump to: navigation, search Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947 in Thal, Styria, Austria) is an Austrian-American actor, Republican politician, bodybuilder, and businessman, currently serving as the 38th Governor of California. ...

Example of Coverage

Hot sauce with that?

California Lt. Gov. Cruz Bustamante (runner-up to Arnold Schwarzenegger in the October [recall election]) is not the family's only public figure. As the San Francisco Chronicle reported in September, his [sister] Nao Bustamante, 39, is a [prominent] performance [artist] whose work includes wearing a strap-on [burrito] for men to [kneel] before and bite in order to absolve themselves of "500 years of white man's guilt," and also sticking her head into a plastic bag filled with water and tying it around her neck to resemble a Houdini stunt, to create "an urgent situation to respond to." by Chuck Shephard Jump to: navigation, search Cruz Miguel Bustamante (born January 4, 1953) is an American politician. ... Jump to: navigation, search Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger (born July 30, 1947 in Thal, Styria, Austria) is an Austrian-American actor, Republican politician, bodybuilder, and businessman, currently serving as the 38th Governor of California. ... The San Francisco Chronicle, the self-described Voice of the West, is Northern Californias largest newspaper. ...

Other Articles

Art Work

• Frigid Bride
• America the Beautiful
• Rosa does Joan
• The Chain South
• Indigurrito
• Sans Gravity

External Links

• Link: Nao Bustamante
• Link: Coco Fusco
• Link: Jose Muñoz
• Link: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Link: Cruz Bustamante
• Link: Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Link: Felix

References

 2000 Out of the Fringe, editors – Caridad Svich and Maria Teresa Marrero, Stuff 

(collaborative script with Coco Fusco)

1998 STUFF (collaborative script with Coco Fusco) Theatre Drama Review

1996 The Chain South, Plazm Magazine

1993 Mother Tongue, Revista Paralax Journal