"Good art is an accident,
   Great art is a miracle."

"Art is not buying or selling,
  it is doing."


                                              - Papo Colo

"Good art is an accident,
great art is a miracle."

"Art is not buying or selling,
it is doing."

"Every room is the center of the world."

— Papo Colo

NEWS AND UPDATES

TRICKSTER THEATER

05.13.09

Trickster theater update: Trickster Theater website launch and YouTube channel
www.trickstertheater.org & www.youtube.com/user/TricksterTheater

   

NÉGRITUDE PROJECT: THE ONGOING WORKS OF A BLACK LATINO

06.09

Click here to view installation images.

click here for curatorial text: 'Negrito Bonito'

 

   
   

WAR THINKER

12.07

A commentary on arms, economy and war. (celebrating 91 years of readymades)

Click here to view.

   

ANARCHIC BANKER

12.23.08

A commentary on culture and the economic front. Part of the series: From the bankers culture to the social aesthetic

Click here to read. Click here to watch video.

   

ANYTHING GOES

10.27.08

Part of the series: Loco Amor Verbal Encounters

A commentary on historical dialogues. A Conversation between Marcel Duchamp and Ronald Reagan.

Click here to read.

   

PAPO COLO ON YOUTUBE.COM

Jumping the Fences is now on YouTube. Click here to watch Papo Colo's newest installment of the Jumping the Fences project.

   

SALSA REQUIEM

Salsa Requiem is a performance piece that uses the dancing on the canvas as a method of drawing. 

 

   

JUMPING THE FENCES

An Ongoing Performance in 13 parts
December 2006-December 2007

Jumping the Fences is a mixture of photography, performance, poetry, history and travelogue in a time space of 13 months…(more)

   

THERE IS NO PLACE LIKE HOME

A Performance in Two Parts
March 22, 2006 Loma De Los Vientos, San Juan, Puerto Rico
May 29, 2006 Bajamar, San Juan, Puerto Rico

Colo takes a ritualistic response to Puerto Rico’s disconnection to the United States due to Puerto Rico’s commonwealth status. He also represents Puerto Rico’s political parties’ struggle that wavers between wanting to be identified culturally as an independent state, yet politically confined to its commonwealth state.

OCTOPUS

A Collaborative Performance/Scupture Project
March 29, 2007
San Juan, Puerto Rico

A collaborative performance/sculptural anthology project of 51 Puerto Rican artists and writers displayed at the National Gallery of the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture Convento Los Dominicos, Old San Juan…(more)