Interrupted Passage

2008 - Film & Video (Film & Video)

Julio Cesar Morales

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The video Interrupted Passage presents a performance Morales staged in the former home of Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, a mid-nineteenth-century Mexican general serving in California. Reenacted here is Vallejo’s acquiescence to Americans who were attempting to overthrow Mexican governance of the region. When a small militia arrived at Vallejo’s house to arrest him, he invited them in and shared a meal. The emphasis on the role of food in Morales’s version connects this historic event to the current proliferation of food-based culture and social interaction in California.

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Born in Tijuana, Mexico, San Francisco-based Julio Cesar Morales explores issues of labor, memory, surveillance technologies, and identity strategies.

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Colors:

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• reenactment.n.01
• chicano.n.01
• surrender.n.03
• food.n.02
• meal.n.02
• apprehension.n.04
• chicano art
• collective history
• contemporary conceptualism
• contemporary graphic realism
• crime
• mexican