Gómez-Peña has contributed to cultural debates for over 30 years staging seminal performance art pieces including "Border Brujo" (1988-1989), "" (with Coco Fusco, 1992–93), "The Cruci-fiction Project" (with Roberto Sifuentes, 1994), "Temple of Confessions" (1995), "The Mexterminator Project" (1997–99),"The Living Museum of Fetishized Identities" (1999-2002), "The Mapa/Corpo series" (2004-2013) and most recently the border opera "We Are All Aliens" (2018–present). His award-winning solo performances mix experimental aesthetics, activist politics, Spanglish humor and audience participation to create a "total experience" for the audience member/reader/viewer.