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Topics in Latin American and Caribbean Studies (391-0-22)

Topic

Performance in Latin America

Instructors

Marcela Alejandra Fuentes

Meeting Info

AM Swift Krause Studio 103: Tues, Thurs 2:00PM - 3:20PM

Overview of class

Latin America has a rich performance tradition, from indigenous cultural and aesthetic practices to action art and from queer performance art to feminist protests. This course provides an overview of Latin American artistic and activist, body-based practices and the ways they have been conceptualized by scholars and curators. We will focus on artists and collectives whose work intervenes in contexts of state violence, migration, transnationality, and gender and sexual countercultures. Students will engage performance as an object of study, analytic, and communication medium in order to develop their own work in dialogue with the course themes. If they so desire, students will have the chance to read and write in Spanish to reflect on the politics of language and translation in performance.