Art as Resistance
By: Marie-Theresa Hernández, PhD for DREAM ACT – TEXAS “A banana from my country can travel easier than me” says Benito Banana (alias Hatuey Ramos-Fermin) . Conceptual artist Hatuey Ramos-Fermin puts on a banana suit to accentuate how bananas have no problem at security points. How is this Resistance? When you see Benito Banana, it makes you laugh, and then you think about how silly it is that a banana can go everywhere, but a person cannot! Since you are a human being that can think through things, you mull over…
Guiding Hands Help Immigrant Artist Connect
Something about the man in the banana costume appealed to Ricardo Miranda Zúñiga. Maybe it was the sign he wore that read, “A banana from my country can travel easier than me.” Maybe it was the fruit-wearer’s free-spiritedness as he paraded in his peel through public places. Or maybe it was the Latino roots they shared.
