XANDRA IBARRA, SPICTACLE II: LA TORTILLERA, 2014
“La Tortillera was developed as a live performance in 2004. The performance was later archived for camera in 2014. In Spictacle II: La Tortillera takes on her own racial bondage to hot sauce, tacos, and demographic panic in “Tortillera.” She dances a 60’s border corrida as a minstrel Mexican housewife, makes tacos with her panties, and “spreads her seed” onto tacos with her “Tapatio cock.”
"On February 13, San Antonio’s Department of Arts & Culture removed Spictacle II: La Tortillera, 2014, from the opening of a group exhibition at the Centro de Artes. The four-minute video, deemed “obscene” by the city, presents the artist in character as she performs one of her “spictacles”—the artists' coinage for “camp spectacles of Mexican and Mexican-American myths that render the colonial gaze laughable.” The decision to remove the work has been criticized by artists, supporters, and groups including the National Coalition Against Censorship." - Artforum