Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files • 2-7-2024 • A Virtual Backpacker's Playlist Across Borders & Eras

The series Gómez-Peña’s Mex Files: Audio Art and Strange Poetry from the US/Mexico Border are a multi-lingual live radio and archived audio program by performance artist, writer, activist, and MacArthur fellow Guillermo Gómez-Peña addressing the multiple pandemics of racism, sexism, militarism, and colonialism.

Airs: Wednesdays from 6pm-7pm

In today’s Mex-Files episode you are an immigrant crossing the multiverse and multiculturalism. Your challenge is to time travel with light feet across new landscapes utilizing music and language as your vehicle. It’s the traveler’s constant challenge: What to pack in your mochila before crossing the border/la frontera?

For the next hour, knowing that a traveler belongs to the entire world will be your only truth.

This playlist curated by Goméz-Peña and Federico Tello contains a selection of the strangest and most evocative songs that we found in the recent apocalyptic years.