Jeanelle Mastema, Date of Birth
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Mexican American experimental body and performance artist from Boyle Heights
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About Jeanelle Mastema
- Jeanelle Mastema (born September 15, 1984) is a Mexican American experimental body and performance artist from Boyle Heights, in Southern California.
- Mastema incorporates ritual into her work through play piercing, hook suspensions, urination and sacred objects.
- She performs internationally solo and with groups often acting as a medium for group intentions or a symbolic altar for channeling energy.
- Through performance Mastema enters into a meditative head space to disconnect from mundane consciousness.
- Her major influences include: Butoh, Kenneth Anger, Surrealism, Psychedelic Art, the Viena Actionists, Kembra Pfaher, Leonora Carrington and Alejandro Jodorowsky.
- She also works as the West Coast sales manager for an adult novelty toy store.
- She also worked at the Pleasure Chest for many years and is featured in a film called, Thank You Come Again, based on working there.
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