Work Groups

This work group explores collective practices, spaces and movements that surface as alternatives to the modern paradigm and the neoliberal project in particular.

What limitations do institutional spaces (such as the museum) pose for performance artists and curators of performance?

Focusing on embodiment in virtual and actual spaces, we will explore such issues as embodiment and affect, memory, biopolitics, medicine, technologies of reproduction, globalization, migration, activism and resistance.

As utopian and dystopian sites, festivals represent powerful instruments that affirm and strengthen identities while producing new social realities. On the one hand, they are adaptive, reiterative, performative, and temporally integrated systems, and on the other, they are separated from everyday life.

This work group will analyze and discuss creative processes in which gender relations are the major theme.

This group will investigate the historiographic challenges of writing about performance in relation to circuits of exchange, colonial legacies, and capitalist extraction.

Scholars from fields as diverse as literature, sociology, geography, theater, architecture, and urban studies have long been captivated by the relationship between the lived and the imagined city.

This work group aims to (1) advance discussion on the concept of performance as episteme and (2) to create a space for artistic experimentation as a method of theoretical research.

Actor training permeates creative processes in the theatre, irrespective of artistic genre. However, if we look at it through broader lenses, the idea of training can be enhanced significantly.

For this work group, we invite participants to examine alternative work models that view young people as critical agents that reflect on their own practices.

In 2011, we have seen the reemergence of the “people” as a political actor, from Mexico’s Peace Caravan to student activism in Europe and above all the revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt.

The current Working Group is continuing the work carried out with the Permanent Seminar on Sexualities, Visual Culture and Performativity, done with the University Program of Gender Studies of UNAM since 2005.

Sonic urbanity: resonant landscapes and silences. Urban vocalities: voices perform in the city.

In this workgroup, we will engage in discussions concerning the performance and representation of violence.

This working group invites scholars, artists, and activists to explore ways in which theatre and performance intersect with hegemonic, residual, and emergent economies both in the theater and in urban settings.

This work group’s goals are: to develop, reflect on, analyze, design, and share individual and collective artistic works as strategies within the framework of the visual arts.

Our proposition assumes that the continent is, in itself, performative, that is, it knows well the identifying features of this artistic language even before it was systematized by practice as well as its studies (i.e. Performance Studies).