Voices en Español

In this podcast I chat with Maya Escobar, a performance artist from the U.S. Her culturally-diverse family background (Dad is Guatemalan and Mom is Jewish) has inspired her to create a series of photos and satirical videos about stereotypes related to Latina and Jewish women. Maya says her work “Acciones Plásticas” is a “commentary of the objectification and exoticization of otherness that I have personally experienced. I reclaim ownership of myself; I transform my body as well as my “self” into an object used within the performed ritual, which is then documented through analog and digital photo, video and collage.”

You can read more about Maya on her website MayaEscobar.com and see the complete series of “Acciones Plásticas” videos here.