by Josefina Alcázar

Friday, 5 December 2008, 6 pm, Room 101, 30 Russell Square

In this talk Josefina Alcázar looked into the central role women have played in Performance Art in Latin America. She analysed the various forms of expression women have developed such as ritual, autobiographic, feminist, and political performance.

Alcázar is a researcher at the Centro Nacional de Investigación, Documentación e Información Teatral Rodolfo Usigli (CITRU) of the INBA, Mexico, since 1994. She is the author of La cuarta dimensión del teatro: Tiempo, espacio y video en la escena moderna (CITRU/INBA, 1998); of the introduction and selection of texts by Guillermo Gómez Peña in El Mexterminator, antropología inversa de un performancero posmexicano (Océano, 2002); and co-author of Performance y arte-acción en América Latina (CITRU/Ex Teresa/Ediciones Sin Nombre, 2005).

Discussant: Mathilde Lopez (Theatre Director and Scenographer)

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