Nao Bustamante
Jan 02, 2014
Nao BustamanteNao Bustamante is an internationally known artist, originally from California; she now resides in upstate New York. Bustamante's precarious work…
http://www.naobustamante.comMy upcoming project will time-travel the role of women in combat, by means of performance, wearable sculpture, and video, bringing history into a contemporary context by creating a revisionist reenactment, embedded in an installation. I am currently researching Zapatistas or soldaderas, the women soldiers of the Mexican Revolution. My illustration of women soldiers (fighting as women, not gendered as men) in historical wartime provides a framework to consider our current psychological framing of war and the various challenges that contemporary women soldiers confront.
Test footage for upcoming project, Tierra y Libertad can be viewed below.
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