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About Us
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Council & Committees es
The Hemispheric Institute Director and staff work closely with the Hemispheric Institute Council, which is comprised of at least one representative from each of its member institutions, as well as 10 artists and activists nominated by the Council. The Council has an elected Executive Committee that oversees its work in different areas.
At New York University, the Hemi has a Steering Committee comprised of NYU faculty whose work intersects with the Institute’s interests and mission..
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Personal
La Biblioteca de Video Digital del Instituto Hemisférico (HIDVL, por sus siglas en inglés) es una colaboración entre las Bibliotecas de la Universidad de Nueva York y el Instituto Hemisférico de Performance y Política. HIDVL reúne en un sólo lugar varios materiales de investigación que eran antes inaccesibles o que había sido imposible preservar por falta de recursos económicos. Nuestros perfiles de artistas ("Artist Profiles"), disponibles en tres idiomas, proveen contextos adicionales para los videos y aseguran la accesibilidad a una gama de públicos alrededor de las Américas.
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Cuadernos
Cuadernos
Cuadernos are online curations of multimedia materials focused on particular topics or bodies of work relating to performance and politics in the Americas. Combining photos, videos, text, bibliographies, and audio recordings, these collections are designed to make connections between disciplines, to serve as a research resource for artists and scholars, and to solicit exchange and additional materials. Each Cuaderno is a work in progress
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Video Library
The Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL)—a collaboration between New York University Libraries and the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics—brings together in one place materials that have been available only in small, little-known archives that are inaccessible to scholars and that lack the resources to properly care for and provide access to these extraordinary cultural documents. Our trilingual Artist Profiles provide additional context to the videos and ensure wide accessibility to audiences around the Americas.
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Encuentro Collections
Encuentro Collections
Every two years//, the Hemispheric Institute host..s an Encuentro—part academic conference, part performance festival—in a different site in the Americas. Fostering experimentation, dialogue, and collaboration, each Encuentro brings together approximately five hundred scholars, artists, activists and students to take part in a week-long program of keynote lectures, work groups, performances, installations, roundtable discussions, visual arts exhibits, video screenings and hands-on performance workshops. Past thematic topics of the Encuentros have been: “Performance and Politics in the Americas” (2000), “Memory, Atrocity, and Resistance” (2001), “Globalization, Migration and the Public Sphere” (2002), “Spectacles of Religiosities” (2003), “Performing 'Heritage': Contemporary Indigenous Performance and Community-Based Practices” (2005), “Corpolíticas/Body Politics: Formations of Race, Class and Gender in the Americas” (2007), “Staging Citizenship: Performance and Politics of Cultural Rights” (2009), and "Cities | Bodies | Action: The Politics of Passion in the Americas (2013).
This section contains full collections for each of the Hemispheric Institute Encuentros. Each icon will take you to the corresponding website for each Encuentro.
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Encuentro 2009. Bogotá, Colombia
Encuentro 2007. Buenos Aires, Argentina
Encuentro 2005. Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Encuentro 2003. New York City, United States
Encuentro 2002. Lima, Peru
Encuentro 2000. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Biblioteca de Video Digital del Instituto Hemisférico
Biblioteca Digital
The Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library (HIDVL) is the first major digital video library of performance practices in the Americas. Created in partnership with NYU Libraries, and with the inaugural support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, HIDVL began as an effort to preserve political performance works from the Americas, making these cultural documents available worldwide. This growing repository guarantees historical preservation and free access to over 900 hours of documentation.
Working alongside artists, scholars, and activists, HIDVL creates trilingual Profiles (English, Spanish and Portuguese) for each Collection, contextualizing the videos with production information, synopses, image galleries, interviews, bibliographies and more. Creators retain the copyright to their contributions, and the original materials, which are returned after digitization. With documentation spanning the 1970’s to the present, HIDVL seeks Collections that promote dialogue and deeper understandings of performance and politics in the Americas.
Materials of the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library are protected by copyright. They may not be copied, downloaded, or reproduced. The owner of this work has granted NYU Libraries non-exclusive rights to include this material in the Hemispheric Institute Digital Video Library and to make it accessible to the public for educational and research purposes. Requests to purchase or for permission to use the work should be directed to the owner. In each page that displays a video on hidvl.nyu.edu you will find the contact information of the copyright owners.
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Índice Alfabético de la Biblioteca de Video Digital del Instituto Hemisférico (HIDVL)
Navegue el material de video en orden alfabético (por primer nombre) para encontrar artistas, grupos, organizaciones, activistas o académicos cuyo trabajo está incluido en el HIDVL. Cuando seleccione el nombre, el catálogo de nuestra Biblioteca de Video Digital aparecerá en una ventana nueva.
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emisférica
emisférica
emisférica is the Hemispheric Institute’s peer-reviewed, online, trilingual scholarly journal. Published biannually, journal issues focus on specific areas of inquiry in the study of performance and politics in the Americas. The journal publishes academic essays, multimedia artist presentations, activist interventions, and translations, as well as book, performance, and film reviews. Its languages are English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
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14.1 Expulsion
This issue investigates expulsion, and the technologies of citizenship and non-citizenship through which the state and capital create and extract value from expellable populations.
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13.1 States of Devotion
Este número traza las cambiantes intersecciones entre la religión, la subjetividad y el Estado en la estela de los regímenes neoliberales en las Américas.
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12.1 Caribbean Rasanblaj
Rasanblaj, n. assembly, compilation, enlisting, regrouping (of ideas, things, people, spirits). This is an emisférica double issue.
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11.1: Decolonial Gesture
This issue looks at the discontinuities, breaks, and unravelings that signal the decolonial, exploring the power and epistemology of colonialism and its legacies in the present.
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10.2: Dissidence
This issue investigates global strategies and tactics of dissidence against dominant state regimes and economic orders, engaging with theories of dissidence and modes of standing apart within the Americas and beyond.
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10.1 Bio/Zoo
Through the prism of biopolitics, this issue investigates the notion of species and modes of domination, governance, and antagonism based on claims to biological life.
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9.1 On the Subject of Archives
This double issue looks at archives as calls to action. Rather than stable repositories, archives here are imagined as acts and practices in transit that mobilize different media and are mobilized by them.
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8.2 #narcomachine
This issue examines the logics, geographies, and grammars of narco-trafficking as an elusive yet ubiquitous social formation that we name the “narco-machine.”
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e-misférica 8.1 Performance ≠ vida
Focused on performance art in Latino/a America, this issue explores how non-objectual actions compose forms of relation, critique, and abstraction in the domains of politics and the social.
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7.2 After Truth
This issue examines the changing shape and status of “truth” in the neoliberal aftermaths of both official and unofficial transitional justice projects in the Americas and beyond.
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7.1 Unsettling Visuality
This issue investigates the conjuncture of performance and the visual, exploring when and how performance may unsettle the relationship between visual representation and social reproduction, and thus open new ways of seeing.
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6.2 Culture + Rights + Institutions
This issue explores relations between culture, rights, and institutions, analyzing the discourse of “cultural rights,” the ways that performance functions as a vehicle for claiming such rights, and institutional agency in relation to the law, citizenship, the museum, the university, and more.
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6.1 Contagion
Through a focus on “contagion,” this issue explores the enactment of social, aesthetic, and political formations of the social body when threatened or transformed by the presence of an/other.
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5.2 Race and its Others
This issue examines the relationship between race and performance in the Americas, focusing on the ways in which different racial formations are transformed as they come into contact and conflict.
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5.1 Traveling Virgins
As the movement of people across national borders intensifies, religious practices become increasingly mobile, turning virgins, saints and other devotional figures into migrants.
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4.2 Body Matters
This issue examines the centrality of body politics in the production and reproduction of inequalities, focusing on the dynamics of visibility and invisibility and on the struggles of those deemed expendable.
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4.1 Passions Performance Public Affect
The realm of affect has long been and continues to be constitutive of the relationship between politics and the body: of forms of government and socio-historical forms of subjectivity.
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3.2 Hybrid Imaginaries / Fractured Geographies
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3.1 Performance and the Law
To embody the letter of the law is to make habit of iterating its text through actions. Through distinct rituals, law is repeated, reinforced, implemented, avoided, enacted, dictated, and broken.
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2.2 Sexualities & Politics in Americas
How does the subject gain agency by performing a sexuality that subverts normative regulations? What forms of political violence are exerted on the sexed body?
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2.1 Aboriginal Performance
Indigenous and non-indigenous scholars and activists examine the use of performance as a gesture against the erasure of Indigenous presence in the Americas.
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1.1 Enacting Democracy
Focusing on the intimate relationship between performance and democracy, this issue examines the performative practices and strategies of social movements across the Americas.
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Courses
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Spring 2015
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Summer 2013
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Fall 2012
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Spring 2012
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Summer 2011
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Spring 2011
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Student Projects
This area of the site contains collaborative research projects generated by students of Hemispheric Institute courses.
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Spring 2010
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Cursos
Una de las metas centrales del Instituto es crear nuevo conocimiento para informar nuevas maneras de pensar acerca del conocimiento. El Instituto organiza seminarios dictados en equipo que combinan las técnicas de enseñanza tradicionales (cara a cara) con la colaboración via internet, permitiendo que estudiantes a través de las Américas se comuniquen y puedan trabajar juntos en línea. Las áreas de investigación que el Instituto desarrolla para estos cursos siguen una secuencia cronológica y temática, explorando temas compartidos en la trayectoria histórica de las Américas a través de los pasados cinco siglos: La Conquista, el Colonialismo, el Nacionalismo y la Globalización. El Instituto también ha ofrecido cursos sobre Trauma, Memoria y Performance; Performance y Activismo, Teatro Latinoamericano y Performance; Performance e Indigenismo, y Teorías del Espectador; entre otros. También ofrecemos un curso anual en Lima, impartido por académicos expertos en el tema, y co-impartido por el colectivo de teatro más importante del Perú: El Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani. El curso esta abierto a estudiantes que pertenecen a las universidades miembros. El curso puede ser tomado para crédito o como un Estudio Independiente.
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Encuentro
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Centros
El Instituto Hemisférico ha fundado dos centros, uno en la ciudad de Nueva York, y otro en San Cristóbal de las Casas, México, que ofrecen programación, acceso a materiales de investigación, y espacios para performances y talleres, para los miembros del Instituto Hemisférico.
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Updates
Cada dos años, el Instituto Hemisférico patrocina un Encuentro —parte conferencia académica, parte festival de performance— en diferentes lugares de las Américas. Cada Encuentro reúne entre 500 y 700 académicos, artistas, activistas y estudiantes por una semana, con el propósito compartir su trabajo a través de charlas, talleres, grupos de investigación, performances, instalaciones, discusiones de mesa redonda, exhibiciones, y talleres de performance, promoviendo así la experimentación, el diálogo y la colaboración. Los participantes de los Encuentros realizan trabajo interdisciplinario y comparten su trabajo en inglés, español y portugués. Temas anteriores de los Encuentros han sido: "Performance y Política en las Américas" (2000), "Memoria, Atrocidad y Resistencia" (2001), "Globalización, Migración y Esfera Pública" (2002), "Espectáculos de Religiosidad" (2003), "Performance y 'Raíces': Prácticas Indígenas Contemporáneas y Movilizaciones Comunitarias" (2005), “Corpolíticas en las Américas: Formaciones de Raza, Clase y Género" (2007), “Ciudadanías en Escena: Entradas y Salidas de los Derechos Culturales” (2009), "Ciudad | Cuerpo | Acción: La política de las pasiones en las Américas" (2013) y "¡MANIFIESTA! La coreografía de los movimientos sociales en las Américas (2014).
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Encuentro Call
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Centers
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Publications
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Books
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SCALAR
SCALAR is an authoring and publishing platform designed to facilitate the production of long-form scholarly publications online. Developed by the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, Scalar enables users to assemble media clips and images from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing, giving authors tools to structure essay- and book-length works in ways that take advantage of the unique capabilities of digital writing, including more recursive and non-linear formats.
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Stages of Conflict Full Articles
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Stages of Conflict
A Critical Anthology of Latin American Theater and Performance
This web page, currently in development, will serve as a companion to Stages of Conflict: A Critical Anthology of Latin American Theater and Performance, edited by Diana Taylor & Sarah J. Townsend and published by University of Michigan Press. Content complementing the printed book will be added as the page develops, including original language scripts, photos & videos of performances, translators' commentaries, and teaching resources.
Stages of Conflict is the first collection to trace the intersection of theater and social and political life in the Americas over the past five centuries. Selections range from a sixteenth-century native dance-drama and a nineteenth-century comedy about slavery to an avant-garde drama from the thirties that reflects the rise of fascism. More recent plays by writers such as Griselda Gambaro, Enrique Buenaventura, and Denise Stoklos address situations involving dictatorship, torture, and struggles for social justice. The volume is a must-read for anyone interested in the performance traditions of the Americas as a whole. Each performance text has been carefully translated into English and is accompanied by extensive critical commentary as well as bibliographies to aid further research.Read a review of Stages of Conflict from CHOICE publication
- Hardcover: 344 pages
- Publisher: University of Michigan Press (September 19, 2008)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0472070274
- ISBN-13: 978-0472070275
- Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 7.2 x 1.2 inches
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Publications
The Hemispheric Institute's focus on embodied practice requires innovative methodologies for dissemination. We are actively exploring a range of publications that span from traditional print media, to born-digital projects and hybrid models.
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Forums
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Executive Board Home Page
This space is reserved for Hemispheric Institute Board Members.
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Foros
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Special Collections
Resources available to Member Institutions.
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emergenyc
EmergeNYC
The Hemispheric Institute at New York University launched EmergeNYC in 2008 as an incubator for emerging artists working at the intersection of performance and politics. Offering varied entry points into art and activism, the annual programme prioritizes process, discovery and reflection, fostering a ‘brave space’ for experimentation and risk-taking. During the past nine years, it has activated a strong network of local artivists – many of them from traditionally underrepresented communities – who have built solidarity across differences and who continue to challenge dominant narratives through artistic cultural resistance.
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emergenyc 2019
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Eventos del Hemisférico en Nueva York
El Instituto Hemisférico ofrece programas especiales, conferencias, performances, muestras de video y exhibiciones. A continuación, nuestros próximos eventos.
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