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(b. San Diego, California, 1963). Navarro studied Visual Arts and Communications at the University of California, San Diego. He is an independent researcher in cultural anthropology and currently lives and works in the cities of San Diego and Tijuana. He has worked with various media, including installation, music and performance. He is a poet and playwright. He uses dance, ritual, oral tradition and internet technologies as tools for his work. He collaborated with the Taller de Arte Fronterizo between 1985 and 1989. For several years he has belonged to Publi(k)ulture, a music and multimedia group in San Francisco (previously Kultura Públika). His work, critical of the peculiar political and cultural situation of the Tijuana-San Diego border, highlights the cultural hybridizations of the popular culture created in this zone. Navarro presents his work in diverse localities in order to alter presumed stability and to activate public spaces that have been consistently divided and margi
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