Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani Description Syllabus Units          Introduction          Unit 1          Unit 2          Unit 3          Conclusion Materials          Search          Text          Images          Institute Archive Interaction          WebBoard Students          Projects          Who's Who Professor: Diana Taylor Department of Performance Studies Tisch School of the Arts New York University 721 Broadway, 6th Floor New York, NY 10003 Tel: 1.212.998.1620 Fax: 1.212.995.4571 diana.taylor@nyu.edu

The Department of Performance Studies Political Performance in Latin America Course #H42.2407.001 Spring 2000 Unit 2: Theatre and Terror 2/23 - Week 6 Collective Theatre: Yuyachkani video; Theatre as a form of testimony READ Cathy Caruth, Trauma: Explorations in Memory, Intro. (in packet) Dori Laub, "Truth and Testimony: The Process and the Struggle" (in packet) Taylor, "Staging Social Memory: Yuyachkani" (in packet) Related Images of Yuyachkani 3/1 - FIRST PAPER DUE (5-7 pages) 3/1 - Week 7 Theatre and Terrorism READ Griselda Gambaro, Information for Foreigners Pavlovsky, Potestad/Impunity (in packet) Ariel Dorfman, Death and the Maiden (in packet) Related Images of Gambaro and Pavlovsky Related Images of the Military in Argentina 3/8 - Week 8 "Disappearance" and Performance Teatro Abierto (video), Madres de la Plaza de Mayo (video) Discussion: the role of art in a context of criminal politics; the role of the spectator, by-stander and witness in spectacles of terror READ Taylor, Disappearing Acts Taussig, "Maleficium: State Fetishism" (in packet) 3/8-3/10 - WebBoard discussion 3/15 - SPRING RECESS Intro / Unit 1 / Unit 2 / Unit 3 / Conclusion