Performance as an unsettling protest.

Latin America: changes in the experience of social protest and the use of art as a political weapon. Liminality: theatricality and performativity as extra-artistic socio-cultural discursive devices. Performative strategies in the struggle against State terrorism, neoliberalism and social injustice. Performances as a tool for political protest of Human Rights movements. Resistance practices against strategies of invisibilization. Trauma in the social body. The concept of the "desaparecido" and its representation. Funerary rites and acts of mourning. Broken bodies and phantasmagoria. Necro-theater and necro-performance. Mass media and theatrical representations of violence in public spaces. Bodies in protest: contemporary activism in situ and on the web. The digital culture of protest. Digital versions of street demonstrations. The redefinition of performance as an embodied event and its intervention in transnational digital capitalism.

More info: Bienal de Performance Área Académica / UNA

Seminar

Performativities and theatricalities to give death/
to imagine a place in life.
Dr. Ileana Diéguez (Mexico)

Conference

Liminalities and communitas to cry death
and to imagine life.
Dr. Ileana Diéguez (México)
Presented by: Lic. Laura Papa.

Conference

Erinyes in mourning. From grief to dignified rage.
Dr. Ileana Dieguez (México)
Including the presentation of Dr. Diéguez's book Cuerpos sin duelo.
Iconografías y teatralidades del dolor (Unmourned bodies.
Iconographies and theatricalities of grief.) by Dra. Ana Longoni
with the special participation of its editor Gabriela Halac and the
visual artist Erika Diettes

Conference

De-centered marginality as creative resistance
(Víctor García and Juan Carlos Uviedo's passage through Portugal).
Dr. Ricardo Seiça Salgado (Portugal)
Presented by: Ana Longoni

Workshop/Instalación

Every day. Collective stage exercises.
Leandro Tartaglia (Argentina) with GEAM group (UNA-DAM)

Workshop

Ethnography and Practices in the Performing Arts.
Dr. Ricardo Seiça Salgado (Portugal)
Presented by: Dra. Ana Longoni

Crossroads

Instructions for nothing.
Laura Kalauz and Dr. Federico Baeza (Argentina)