Bloodsign

performance

2024-ongoing

The Plan De Sandiego was an early 20th century Tejano secessionist plan which proposed “an uprising against the United States government to proclaim the liberty of blacks from the ‘Yankee tyranny’ that had held them in ‘iniquitous slavery since remote times’ and to proclaim the independence of Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, and California, ‘of which States the REPUBLIC OF MEXICO was robbed in a most perfidious manner by North American imperialism.” More specifically, it called for “an army consisting of Mexican Americans, blacks, and Japanese to kill all whites over the age of sixteen.” Though the plan was quickly discovered and suppressed the spectre of its proposition was deeply felt, spurring the reaction of intense state-sanctioned and extrajudicial violence. Reports record that in the brief years following, from American law-enforcement alone between 300 and 5,000 ethnic Mexicans were killed.

Bloodsign

With the acquisition of “Bloodsign” the exhibiting body and artist acknowledges the following as the proper protocols in producing the artwork:

  1. The exhibiting body will reproduce the historical document, “The Plan of San Diego,” in full . All aesthetic decisions regarding display, size, quantity, and other means of reproduction are left to the discretion of the exhibiting body.

  2. With each instance of exhibiting the work, the artist will perform an act of bloodletting used to ratify the document provided.

  3. The artist agrees to these terms for the remainder of his life.