Verbo•bala explores border identity through storytelling and digital media, creating performance pieces and installations composed of bilingual poetry, live video projection and sound design.
Formed in Cuernavaca, Mexico in 2007, the group is currently based in Tucson, Arizona and considers the US-Mexico borderlands its home. Described as “a poetry written without letters” by Mexico’s national newspaper La Reforma , Verbo•bala’s innovative practice has taken their work from Cuernavacan speakeasies to international venues including the National Hispanic Cultural Center, the Phoenix Art Museum, New York University, and the Poesía.en.Voz.Alta Festival in Mexico City.
From Nobody Speaks , 2009