[Candrama] Lecture by Diana Taylor and Panel on Activism, Archives, and Performance

[Laura Levin]

Dear colleagues,

We are very pleased to announce that the next talk in the Performance Studies (Canada) Speaker Series will take place on Thursday, November 8, 2018, a collaboration with York's Centre for Research on Latin America and the Caribbean (CERLAC) and its 2018 Michael Baptista Lecture. The lecture, delivered this year by Professor Diana Taylor, will be held from 4pm-5:30pm and it will be preceded by a panel highlighting CERLAC’s history of supporting research on Latin America over the last 40 years, with a particular focus on the CERLAC archives and their uses for understanding activism in the region. We hope you can join us for this exciting event!

2018-19 Speaker Series Co-Curators: Laura Levin and Marlis Schweitzer (York U, Theatre & Performance Studies)

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Event: The 2018 Michael Baptista Lecture and Panel — Activism, Archives, and Performance: Commemorating 40 Years of CERLAC
Date: Thursday, November 8, 2018, 2:00pm-5:30pm
Place: Joseph G. Green Theater (Centre for Film and Theater) York University

Schedule: 
2:00pm-3:45pm — Panel on Activism, Archives, and Performance at CERLAC, featuring current and former CERLAC Directors Alan Durston, Alan Simmons, Liisa North; historian and activist Luis van Isschot; Canadian Consortium on Performance and Politics in the Americas Postdoctoral Fellow Zoë Heyn-Jones
4:00pm-5:30pm — Baptista Lecture by Professor Diana Taylor
Reception to follow

Speaker Bio:
Diana Taylor is University Professor and Professor of Performance Studies and Spanish at New York University. She is the award winning author of multiple books, among them: Theatre of Crisis (1991), Disappearing Acts (1997), The Archive and the Repertoire (2003), and Performance(2016). Her new book, ¡Presente! The Politics of Presence, is forthcoming with Duke University Press. Taylor is director of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics which she helped found in 1998. In 2017, Taylor was President of the Modern Language Association and was recently inducted to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Dr. Taylor’s lecture:
“ 'Making Presence': Regina José Galindo, Earth (2013)”
Is performing testimony, testimony? In Earth (2013), Guatemalan performance artist Regina José Galindo performs an event recounted by survivors of genocide at the trial of the exdictator Efrain Rios Montt. The archival testimony tells of how people were forced to dig a massive pit and then stand in front of it, to facilitate their execution and internment by the armed forces. The performance does not cite or allude to the testimony nor to the criminal acts that led up to it. So my question: what does the performance do or transmit? Does it expose? Denounce? Bear witness? Or is the performance itself a form of testimony?





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