Interviews
Interview with Ana Correa, active member of Perus Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani, conducted by Michelle Zubiate during the 3rd Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, celebrated in July of 2002 in Lima, Peru under the title Globalization, Migration and the Public Sphere.
Biography
Perus most important theater collective, Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani has been working since 1971 at the forefront of theatrical experimentation, political performance, and collective creation. Yuyachkani is a Quechua word that means I am thinking, I am remembering; under this name, the theater group has devoted itself to the collective exploration of embodied social memory, particularly in relation to questions of ethnicity, violence, and memory in Peru. The group is comprised of seven actors (Augusto Casafranca, Amiel Cayo, Ana Correa, Débora Correa, Rebeca Ralli, Teresa Ralli, and Julián Vargas), a technical designer (Fidel Melquíades), and an artistic director (Miguel Rubio), who have made a commitment to collective creation as a mode of theatrical production and to group theater as a life style. Their work has been among the most important in Latin Americas so called New Popular Theater, with a strong commitment to grass-roots community issues, mobilization, and advocacy. Yuyachkani won Perus National Human Rights Award in 2000. Known for its creative embrace of both indigenous performance forms as well as cosmopolitan theatrical forms, Yuyachkani offers insight into Peruvian and Latin American theater, and to broader issues of postcolonial social aesthetics.
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Interview with Ana Correa (Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani)
Entrevista con Arthur Avilés
Interview with Denise Stoklos, conducted by Eleonora Fabião during the 3rd Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, celebrated in July of 2002 in Lima, Peru under the title Globalization, Migration and the Public Sphere.
Interview with Denise Stoklos (2002)
Interview with Dr. Gisela Cánepa Koch conducted by Diana Taylor during the 3rd Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, celebrated in July of 2002 in Lima, Peru under the title Globalization, Migration and the Public Sphere.
Biography
Gisela Cánepa Koch is a Professor of Anthropology in the Social Studies Department at Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú where she also co-chairs the Taller de Antropología Visual (Visual Anthropology Workshop). She received her Master's in Anthropology at the Pontificia Católica and her doctorate studies at the University of Chicago, Illinois. She was awarded scholarships from the Century Fellowship and Consejo Latino Americano de Ciencias Sociales-CLACSO. She is the author of Máscara, Transformación e Identidad en los Andes (Mask, Transformation and Identity in the Andes; Lima: PUC, 1998) and has edited Identidades Representadas: performance, experiencia y memoria en Los Andes (Acted Identities: performance, experience and memory in the Andes; Lima: PUC, 2001). She has also directed four documentaries for the series Videos Etnográficos del Centro de Etnomusicología Andina de la PUCP (Ethnographic Videos for the Andes Ethnomusicology Center at PUCP) and the CD-ROM Multimedia, música y ritual en Los Andes peruanos (CD-ROM Multimedia, music and ritual in the Peruvian Andes; Lima: PUCP, 2001).
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Interview with Dr. Gisela Cánepa Koch
Interview with Lourdes Arizpe, conducted by Dawn Lorentson during the 3rd Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, celebrated in July of 2002 in Lima, Peru under the title 'Globalization, Migration and the Public Sphere'.
Biography
Dr. Lourdes Arizpe is a Professor of Anthropology at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and former Assistant Director-General for Culture, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Dr. Arizpe recently held the position of Assistant Director-General for Culture at UNESCO Paris. She earned an M.A. in Anthropology, followed by a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Dr. Arizpe has held several notable international positions. She was the President of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, and at present serves as Vice-President for the International Social Science Council (ISSC). She also served as Vice- President for the Society for International Development (SID) and she was a member of the Steering Committee for Development Alternatives for Women in a New Era (DAWN). Dr. Arizpe was a member of the World Commission on Culture and Development and Chair of the Scientific Committee of the World Culture Report. As a research scholar and lecturer, she received a Fulbright-Hayes as well as a John D. Guggenheim grant and has received several awards for her scientific work. She has been a Fellow of the Global Economic Forum of Davos. Dr. Arizpe has published numerous research articles and chapters of books. Her recent works include 'Culture and Globalization' in UNDP Working Papers of the Human Development Report, 1999; 'The cultural dimensions of global change: An anthropological approach', Paris, UNESCO (1996); and 'Re-thinking the Population-Environment Debate' in Population and Environment: Rethinking the Debate, Arizpe, Stone, and Major (ed.), 1994.
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Interview with Lourdes Arizpe
Interview with Nao Bustamante conducted by José Muñoz during the 3rd Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, celebrated in July of 2002 in Lima, Peru under the title Globalization, Migration and the Public Sphere.
Biography
Nao Bustamante is an internationally known performance art pioneer originating from the San Joaquin Valley of California. Her work encompasses performance art, installation, video, pop music and experimental rips in time. Using the body as a source of image, narrative and emotion, her performances communicate on the level of subconscious language, taking the spectator on a bizarre journey, with haunting images, cracking stereotypes by embodying them. Bustamante's work has been presented, among other sites at, the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Arts, and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki. She has performed in Galleries, Museums, Universities and underground sites throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Mexico and the United States. Her collaborations include working with such luminaries as Coco Fusco and Osseus Labrint. In 2001 she received the prestigious Anonymous Was a Woman fellowship. Currently she is living in Troy, New York and an assistant professor of New Media and Live Art at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
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Interview with Nao Bustamante
Interview with Renato Rosaldo, conducted by Ulla Berg during the 3rd Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, celebrated in July of 2002 in Lima, Peru under the title Globalization, Migration and the Public Sphere.
Biography
Renato Rosaldo, currently a visiting professor at NYU Anthropology, was most recently a Lucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences at Stanford University. He has done field research among the Ilongots of northern Luzon, Philippines. He spent 1975-76 at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, and 1980-81 at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford. He published Ilongot Headhunting, 1883-1974: A Study in Society and History in 1980 and Culture and Truth: The Remaking of Social Analysis in 1989. His co-edited work, The Inca and Aztec States, 1400-1800: Anthropology and History appeared in 1982, Anthropology/Creativity appeared in 1993, and The Anthropology of Globalization in 2001. He has been conducting research on cultural citizenship in San Jose, California since 1989, and contributed the introduction and an article to Latino Cultural Citizenship: Claiming Identity, Space, and Rights, published in 1997. Professor Rosaldo has served as President of the American Ethnological Society, Director of the Stanford Center for Chicano Research, and Chair of the Department of Anthropology. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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