Embodied Knowledges: Politics, Performance, and World-Making in Latin America

Session Submission Type: Panel

Abstract

The popularization of performance as an object of study, a theory, and a methodology in Latin American Studies has contributed a hemispheric interdisciplinary approach to the study of embodied practices. Conceptualizing performance beyond the theatrical, this panel will exemplify how thinking about performance illuminates the embodiment of knowledge production. In consequence, we will challenge writing-centric and national linear narratives of collective memory to explore performance’s haunting, moving, affective, aural and digital resonances in everyday scenarios in Cuba, Panama, and Colombia. We will argue for a close reading of performances as speculative fictions that allows us to imagine what is not here yet.

Sub Track

• Film, Performance, and Culture

Session Organizer

• Tania Lizarazo, University of Maryland, Baltimore County

Chair

• David Tenorio, University of Pittsburgh

Individual Presentations

• Intimate Futures: Materiality, Affect and the Performance of Hope in Cuba’s "El ciervo encantado" - David Tenorio, University of Pittsburgh

• Transformismo masculino: black lesbian performance and «sexual revolution» in Cuba - Matthew Leslie Santana, Harvard University

• Restaging Testimonio: Performative Memories of the US Invasion of Panama - Emily F Davidson, Pacific Lutheran University

• Visual Utopias: Performing Digital Archives in the Colombian Pacific - Tania Lizarazo, University of Maryland, Baltimore County