CONVENERS
Roewan Crowe is an artist and writer and is energized by acts of disruption, radical transformation and the tactical deployment of self-reflexivity. She recently published Quivering Land, a queer Western engaging poetics to reckon with legacies of violence, colonization, and settler identity. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Winnipeg, Treaty One Territory.
Doris Difarnecio is an Afro-Colombian New Yorker living in Chiapas, Mexico. Her Master’s research at Centro de Estudios Superiores de México y Centroamérica focused on the body and memory in the popular theater of FOMMA, a Mayan collective of writers, actors, and poets. Doris creates and directs theatrical pieces based on global oral histories. She is also a co-founder of Arte Acción.
Javier Serna is professor of Letters and Analysis of Cultural Processes at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Mexico. Publications include 50 Años de Teatro en Nuevo León,Narcocorridos,and Oratura. He received his PhD in Performance Studies from New York University, his MA in Drama from the Drama Centre London, and his MA in Anthropology from La Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.
LOCATION
Sala Enrique Noisvander, DETUCH
DESCRIPTION
How do we manifest the artist’s repertoire, make visible artistic knowledges, skills, and theory, describe the process and depth of art-making, and transmit these knowledges? We understand the repertoire to be both ephemeral and embodied cultural and social practices of transmission. We situate ourselves at the crossroads of hemispheric regimes as the queer, the troublesome, the heretics––passing through the confines of the normative to break down binary and unitary paradigms. Deeply affected by the processes of colonization, we are interested in what artistic knowledge transmission looks like within a decolonizing framework. Our focus is to sustain, proliferate, and transmit the artist’s repertoire through multiple explorations, divergences, and articulations.