Louis Hock

THE MEXICAN TAPES: A Chronicle of Life Outside the Law, 1986

DVD set of 4 disks (four one hour segments) with booklet

Louis Hock was born in Los Angeles in 1948 and raised in Nogales and Tucson, Arizona. After graduating with a B.A. from the University of Arizona in 1970, he attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, earning a M.F.A. degree in 1973. Louis Hock's artwork – films, video tapes, and media installations – have been exhibited in solo shows at numerous national and international art institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 1986, Hock completed a four-part, four-hour video about the life and times of a community of undocumented Mexican workers in southern California, titled THE MEXICAN TAPES: A Chronicle of Life Outside the Law. The series was broadcast internationally on the PBS in the U.S., BBC in the U.K., and Televisa in Latin America. Hock joined the University of California, San Diego in 1977 as a faculty member and continues to work as a professor in the Visual Arts Department.