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This chapter explores the interplay between Puerto Rican identity, visibility, and performance in the context of the Nuyorican experience. It examines how notions of respectability have evolved in the Puerto Rican community, from attempts to conform to US norms to the emergence of the term “Nuyorican” as a marker of difference and cultural identity. The chapter delves into the tension between hypervisibility and invisibility, revealing how certain strands of Nuyorican visual arts challenge sensationalized representation. Through the work of artists like David Antonio Cruz, Luis Carle, Adál Maldonado, and others, the chapter highlights an alternative current in Nuyorican art. These artists disrupt traditional representational norms, engaging in a spectacle of the self that dislocates, dislodges, and empowers. By focusing on the performative methods and principles inherent in these artworks, the chapter presents an alternative perspective on Nuyorican aesthetics and its connection to cultural agency and transformation.

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