Wednesday, October 8, 2025

Let the #Mextasy Invasion, 2025-2026 Begin!




BRING ¡MEXTASY! — A TRAVELING CIRCUS OF DESMADRE, DESIRE & DECONSTRUCTION 

⚡️ 2025–2026 Tour | Booking Now 


Tired of beige art shows where nothing bleeds, sweats, or argues back? ¡Mextasy! is your antidote — a border-born carnival of images and ideas that refuses to behave. Curated and conjured by William “Memo” Nericcio — author of Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the “Mexican” in America — ¡Mextasy! turns the museum wall into a bilingual hallucination. It’s a mash-up of racist Americana, pop-art remix, and Chicano/x visual thunder — part seminar, part stand-up, part séance. 

Born in Laredo, raised on Mad magazine, Derrida, and Mexican TV static, Nericcio drags the archive out of the ivory tower and into your gallery, library, or dive bar. 

🔥 See it to believe it: Photo gallery + past shows 

Denver 2024 installation 

Nepantla Cultural Arts Center, Seattle 

Boise State Pop-Up 


What You Get (Besides Goosebumps) 

Visual detonations: 100+ years of Mexican caricature turned inside-out. 

Hybrid happenings: lectures that slip into comedy, gallery talks that break into confessionals. Collaborative chaos: workshops, film nights, and bilingual brain spasms that leave people buzzing. 

How It Works 

Full circus install — Nericcio + crew transform your space. 

Pop-up guerrilla show — we hit and run, no damage deposit required. 

Zoom / hybrid setups for the cautious or cash-strapped. 

💰 Price? Negotiable. Art first, spreadsheets later. 

Who’s Survived It So Far University of Denver • UCLA • UC Riverside • Iowa State • Nepantla Arts (Seattle) • Casa Familiar (San Ysidro) • San Antonio College 


If your gallery’s got walls that can take a punch — or an audience that’s hungry for something that bites back — we should talk. 

📩 Contact: memo@sdsu.edu | textmex@me.com 🌐 More proof, madness, and mirth: mextasy.blogspot.com

Monday, February 17, 2025

Bring ¡Mextasy! A Traveling Circus of Desmadres to Your School, Gallery, University, Library, or Dive Bar! Updated for 2025-2026!

~ Last updated February 17, 2025 ~

#Mextasy is back! 2025-2026

Mextasy: Seductive Hallucinations of Latina/o Mannequins Prowling the American Unconscious is a traveling pop-up or gallery-based art show/exhibit based on the work of William "Memo" Nericcio and Guillermo Nericcio García


The traveling exhibition or "Circus of Desmadres" was originally curated by Leticia Gómez Franco for Casa Familiar, San Ysidro, California, and Rachel Freyman Brown, South Texas College, McAllen, Texas. Recents shows include exhibitions / performances at the University of Denver,  Boise State University,  UC Riverside (virtual via Zoom, thx Covid!)  Iowa State University and the Nepantla Cultural Arts Center, Seattle, Washington --other noteworthy gigs include performances at Northwestern University, Wabash College, California State University, San Bernardino, and Franklin & Marshall College.

Mextasy is re-imagined, interactive art and artifact exhibition that grew out of Nericcio's 2007 American Library Association award-winning book with UT Press, Tex[t]-Mex: Seductive Hallucinations of the Mexican in America




In addition to racist artifacts from American mass culture (the bread and butter of Uncle Sam's unconscious and the backstory for the resurgence in anti-Mexican, anti-Latina/o peoples presently), the show also features works that is "xicanosmotic," that is, works by Mexican-American artists where the delicious fusion of the Mexican/US borderlands/frontera is writ large as in the deliriously delicious artistic tracings of Raul Gonzalez IIIPerry Vasquez, Rafaella Suarez, and Izel VargasVisitors to this page interested in having MEXTASY invade their local gallery/university of choice should contact us here.