Eventos anteriores
Tuesday April 27, 2010 at 7 pm
The Fury of the Gods
Written and Performed by Susana Cook
Sound Design by Julián Mesri
An exercise in Pop Blasphemy. An ecclesiastical experiment in Heathenism. A sharp biting satire that skewers the sacred.
The Fury of the Gods is a series of ecclesiastical interventions that mocks capitalist individualism. Susana Cook uses religious oratory to highlight conservative interpretations of homosexuality and exaggerate them, taking them to their logical extremes. As conservative narrative appropriates religion to fulfill an agenda, Cook's work appropriates religious and political language as a means to unveil the ways that fundamentalist belief have come to influence public policy and unmask the real substance and immorality of these national messages.
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003 (get map)
Susana Cook, born in Argentina, is a New York based playwright, director and performer who has been producing original work for over 20 years. Her work has been presented in numerous performance spaces in New York City, including Dixon Place, PS. 122, W.O.W Cafe Theater, Ubu Rep, Theater for the New City, The Puffin Room and The Kitchen. She has also performed internationally in Spain, France, India, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Canada and at several colleges and universities around the country. Some of her latest shows are include : Homeland Insecurities, The idiot King, The Values Horror Show, 100 Years of Attitude, Dykenstein, Hamletango, Prince of Butches, Gross National Product, Hot Tamale, Conga Guerrilla Forest, The Fraud, Butch Fashion Show in the Femme Auto Body Shop, Rats and Tango Lesbiango She is the recipient of several fellowships and awards from the New York Foundation for the Arts, Arts International, Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice, The Franklin Furnace Archives, The Puffin Foundation and INTAR. www.susanacook.com
Julián Mesri is a New York-based playwright, director, and sound designer. www.julianmesri.com
Friday, April 30, 2010 from 10am -6pm
The Traffic in Policy: Religion, Sexuality and the State
This one-day symposium will examine ways in which religious discourses and movements are crossing national borders and shaping policy debates, legislation, and public spheres in the Americas.
Speakers include
Faye Ginsburg (NYU), Carol Mason (Oklahoma State University), María Consuelo Mejía (Catholics for the Right to Decide, Mexico), Ann Pellegrini (NYU), Diana Taylor (NYU) Juan Marco Vaggione (National University of Córdoba, Argentina), and David Harrington Watt (Temple University).
Keynote lecture by
Roberto J. Blancarte (El Colegio de México)
Schedule
10:00-10:30 Coffee
10:30-10:45 Welcome by Ann Pellegrini and Diana Taylor (NYU)
10:45-12:15 Fundamentalism in Motion |David Watt (Temple University) / Juan Vaggione (Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina) / Discussant: Marcial Godoy-Anativia (NYU)
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-3:00 Social Movements and Reproductive Rights Policy / Carol Mason (Oklahoma State University) / Maria Consuelo Mejía, (Catholics for the Right to Decide, Mexico) / Discussants: Faye Ginsburg (NYU), and Gabriela Rodríguez (AFLUENTES, Mexico)
3:00-4:00 Plenary Discussion led by Ann Pellegrini
4:00-4:15 Break
4:15-5:45 Keynote / Roberto Blancarte (Colegio de México) /The Role of the Secular State in Sexual and Reproductive Rights in Latin America
5:45-6:30 Reception
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY (get map)
A symposium co-organized by NYU’s Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics and Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality with funding by The Henry Luce Foundation as part of the Religion and Politics in the Americas Initiative.
Friday, June 18, 2010 at 7 pm
EMERGENYC final installations, performances and presentations
@Hemispheric Institute
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003
Join us for the final installations, performances, and presentations of our third year of EMERGENYC, the Hemispheric New York Emerging Performers Program. This is the second year of Activist Performance ("artivism") series. As a part of the Institute's Hemispheric New York initiative, the Emerging Performers Program aims to support the development of New York-based artists ages 18 to 28 whose work functions as a vehicle for political expression and social change, and who examine the broad range of identities, practices and histories of the Americas (the western hemisphere, thus "hemispheric") through genres such as spoken word, street performance, political cabaret, performance art, video performance, movement, and others.
2010 ARTISTS: Aimée Lutkin, Ariel Federow (Ariel Speedwagon), Chelsea Johnson-Long, Clark Stoeckley (Clark Clark), Claudia Sofia Garriga Lopez, Giovanni Varga, Heather Morowitz, Helaine Gawlica, Jonathan McCrory, Julián Mesri, Kira Neel, Laura Botero Camacho, Pablo Varona Borges, Ricardo Gamboa, Tiffany Ferguson.
INSTRUCTOR: George Emilio Sánchez
Workshop Leaders and guest speakers:
Peggy Shaw (Split Britches), Susana Cook, Leo Martín, Reverend Billy, Savitri D, Pamela Sneed, Universes, Karina Casiano, Karen Finley, Karina Claudio Betancourt (Make the Road New York/GLOBE), Fulana, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Silvia Fernandez (Sites of Conscience).
A reception will follow.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010 at 7-8:30pm
An Evening With Mario Montez
Free
The Department of Performance Studies Lecture Forum presents Mario Montez, the great drag Superstar who reigned over the New York Underground film and theater scene from the early 1960s until the mid-1970s. Not be missed.
Mario Montez and Marc Siegel in conversation with Ela Troyano and Lola Pashalinski
34 Stuyvesant Street
The Barney Building, Einstein Auditorium
New York, NY
SEATING IS LIMITED AND IS ON A FIRST COME FIRST SERVE BASIS. PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY.
Please join us for a reception after the talk on the 6th floor loft space!
Co-Sponsored by: Department of Social and Cultural Analysis: Latino Studies,Hemispheric Institute of Performance and PoliticsCenter for the Study of Gender and SexualityCinema StudiesThe Humanities InitiativeSteinhardt School, Department of Art and Arts Professions
Mario Montez Biography by Marc Siegel
“Gerard Malanga: Who is your greatest super star?
Jack Smith: Mario.
Gerard Malanga: Why?
Jack Smith: Because he immediately enlists the sympathy of the audience.”
Mario Montez is the great drag Superstar who reigned over the New York underground film and theater scene from the early 1960s until the mid-1970s. Montez got his start with Jack Smith, working as a model for numerous photo shoots and making his screen debut in Flaming Creatures (1962-63) under the name of Dolores Flores. According to Ronald Tavel, Jack Smith claimed that Montez “never took a bad picture. His concentration was complete and a legible, specific idea arranges his features in every print which survives today.” Smith and Montez shared a fascination for Dominican-born Hollywood 1940s star, Maria Montez, from whom Mario took his stage name and performance identity. Mario Montez worked continuously with Smith in films and performances throughout the 1960s. He starred as the Mermaid in Normal Love (1963-65) and also appeared in Reefers of Technicolor Island/Jungle Island (1967) and No President (1967-70s). Montez also performed in Smith’s live stage performance Rehearsal for the Destruction of Atlantis (1965). In 1964 Montez worked with Smith on Andy Warhol’s unfinished over five-hour film Batman Dracula. That same year Montez starred as Jean Harlow in Warhol’s first sync-sound film, Harlot, and also appeared in Mario Banana and Mario Montez Dances. He quickly became one of Warhol’s most important screen personalities, as well as the Factory’s first drag Superstar. Montez starred in a number of other Warhol films as well, including Screen Test #2, Camp, and More Milk Yvette (all 1965) and Hedy and The Chelsea Girls (both1966). In addition to his better-known collaborations with Smith and Warhol, Montez also appeared in works by a number of other filmmakers, including Chumlum (Ron Rice, 1964), Dirt (Piero Heliczer, 1965), Brothel (Bill Vehr, 1966), and Life, Death and Assumption of LupeVelez (José Rodríquez Soltero, 1966). In the early ‘70s, the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica devoted a series of projects to Montez including the film Agripina é Roma Manhattan/Agrippina is Rome-Manhattan (1972). In addition to his work on film, Montez also played a seminal role in the development of the Theatre of the Ridiculous. He appeared in John Vaccaro’s productions of Ronald Tavel’s plays Screen Test, The Life of Lady Godiva and Indira Gandhi’s Daring Device (all 1966) and then went on to become a central performer in Charles Ludlam’s RidiculousTheatrical Company, appearing regularly in the company’s productions until 1976. Additionally, Montez performed in numerous other off-off Broadway stage plays, including Jackie Curtis’ Vain Victory (1971) and Harvey Fierstein’s In Search of the Cobra Jewels (1972). Throughout his performance career, Montez was known both for his creativity and skill with costume and make-up design and for his generosity in assisting fellow performers with their stage appearance. Through his imprint “Montez-Creations,” he therefore contributed substantially to the aesthetics of 1960s and ‘70s underground film and theater in NewYork.
“Mario had that classic comedy combination of seeming dumb but being able to say the right things with perfect timing; just when you thought you were laughing at him, he’d turn it all around.” – AndyWarhol
Friday, April 2, 2010 at 5 pm
Portrait of the Honduran People: A Photographic Project in the Aftermath of a Coup d'Etat
A presentation and discussion with Pablo Delano and Darío Euraque
For more information on this photographic collaboration please see the article published on the New York Times Blog.
This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Department of History, and the Department of Photo and Imaging
Pablo Delano is a photographer and visual artist. His latest book of photographs is titled IN TRINIDAD and consists of black and white images taken on the Caribbean island of Trinidad (part of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago) over the past 10 years. Currently he is working on projects in Asia and in Honduras, Central America.
Darío Euraque was the Director of the Honduran Institute of Anthropology and History until removed by the golpistas and is Professor of History and International Studies at Trinity College.
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Superstar! A Tribute to Mario Montez
Superstar! is a one-day conference celebrating and discussing the career of one of New York’s most gifted performers.
Born in Puerto Rico in 1935, Montez moved to New York while still a child. He first appeared on screen in Jack Smith’s queer classic Flaming Creatures (1962–63). Later he became Andy Warhol’s first drag superstar, starring in more than ten of his films. Montez was also a favorite of underground theater, appearing regularly in Theatre of the Ridiculous productions by Charles Ludlam, Ronald Tavel and John Vaccaro.
For the first time in 30 years, Mr. Montez will return to New York to talk about his work and life. Joining him will be Callie Angell, Douglas Crimp, Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé, Ronald Gregg, Maja Horn, Brendan Joseph, Agosto Machado, Ricardo Montez, Frances Negrón-Muntaner, Marc Siegel, and Carmelita Tropicana.
Columbia University
Davis Auditorium, Schapiro Hall
538 West 120th Street (get map)
New York, New York 10027
10 AM – 5 PM , with a reception to follow
Organized by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity (CU); Co-Sponsored by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics (NYU); Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (CU); CC/SEAS Office of Multicultural Affairs (CU); Institute for Research on Women and Gender (CU); Barnard Center for Research on Women (BC); Department of Spanish and Portuguese, (CU); Center for the Critical Analysis of Social Difference (CU); Department of Spanish and Latin American Cultures (BC); Department of Theatre (BC); Department of English and Comparative Literature, (CU).
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 at 6pm
Birds of Passage/ Aves de Paso (2009)
Run Time: 52 minutes
A screening of the film by Rachel Lears, with reception to follow.
Aves de Paso/ Birds of Passage presents a lyrical journey through the everyday lives of two young Uruguayan songwriters. Ernesto and Yisela have moved to the capital, leaving behind their respective hometowns on the borders of Brazil and Argentina. The film fuses the arts of documentary film and music, interweaving the songs and stories of these two young composers. With vérité cinematography and an unforgettable soundtrack, Aves de Paso/ Birds of Passage explores the challenges of being a young artist, and the art of searching, inside and outside of oneself.
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003 (get map)
Rachel Lears is a filmmaker, musician, and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MPhil in cultural anthropology from New York University and a BA in music from Yale University, and studied documentary production as part of NYU’s Program in Culture and Media. In 2005, she received a Fulbright grant to Uruguay for the production of the documentary Birds of Passage. While her short documentaries have screened in festivals in the United States and Uruguay, her video art piece Ethnography of No Place (2008), created with visual artist Saya Woolfalk, is currently screening in galleries, museums and festivals. In 2008-09, she is serving as Managing Editor of e-misférica, the online journal of the Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics. She is the founder of Honeycomb Films, and performs her original music with the band The Mystery Keys.
Monday, March 29, 2010 at 4 pm
Jesus Camp (2006)
Run Time: 87 minutes
Screening of Jesus Camp, a film by Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, followed by a discussion.
A growing number of Evangelical Christians believe there is a revival underway in America that requires Christian youth to assume leadership roles in advocating the causes of their religious movement. Jesus Camp follows a group of young children to pastor Becky Fisher's "Kids on Fire Summer Camp", where kids are taught to become dedicated Christian soldiers in God's army and are schooled in how to take back America for Christ.
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003 (get map)
This event is part of the Religion and Politics in the Americas Initiative.
Heidi Ewing. As the co-owner of Loki films, Heidi has taken on a wide range of subjects that includes the inner workings of Scientology, ritualistic body piercing in Sri Lanka and the labyrinth that is the criminal justice system in the Bronx. Previously she delved in the dramatic world of Cuban politics with Dissident, a film about the struggle of Havana-based Nobel Peace Prize nominee Osvaldo Paya, a film that was made clandestinely and has been shown around the world. She recently co-directed The Boys of Baraka, the critically-acclaimed documentary feature that is currently playing in cities across the United States.
Rachel Grady. The co-director of The Boys of Baraka, Rachel is a private investigator turned film maker. She has produced and directed numerous non-fiction films for The Discovery Channel, A & E, and Britain's Channel 4. She has directed several films that focus on mental illness including Mad Justice, a verité documentary that looks at the troubling fate of mentally ill parolees and Ward 2 West, shot on location at the Kirby Forensic Psychiatric Hospital on New York's famed Ward Island. She also acted as Series Producer for "TX" an eight part series for VH1 filmed entirely in a drug rehab. She is the co-founder of Loki films.
Friday, February 5, 2010 at 4pm
New Muslim Cool (2008)
A film by Jennifer Maytorena Taylor, followed by a panel discussion with the filmmaker, Hamza Pérez, Zaheer Ali (Columbia U), and artist Popmaster Fabel. Moderated by Imam Khalid Latif (NYU Islamic Center).
Organized by the Center for Religion and Media. Co-Sponsored by: Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Kevorkian Center, NYU’s Islamic Center, Department of Social & Cultural Analysis/Program in Latino Studies, The Center for Multicultural Education and Programs and The Center for Spiritual Life.
King Juan Carlos Center
53 Washington Square South
New York, NY 10012 (get map)
(co-organized by the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics)
Jennifer Maytorena Taylor is producer/director of New Muslim Cool. Her credits include credits include the documentaries Ramadan Primetime, Special Circumstances, Paulina, Home Front and Immigration Calculations, and many short films and television segments.Her work has won numerous festival awards and two Emmys. Based in San Francisco, she has held several arts and journalism fellowships — most recently with New Muslim Cool at the Sundance Institute’s Documentary Edit and Story Lab.
Hamza Pérez is a a Puerto Rican American rapper and the star of New Muslim Cool.
Zaheer Ali is a doctoral student in history at Columbia University, where he is focusing his research on twentieth-century African-American history and religion. He is conducting an oral history of the Nation of Islam's community in Harlem, which will also be the focus of his dissertation. www.zaheerali.com
Popmaster Fabel (Jorge "Fabel" Pavon) of the famed Rock Steady Crew was born and raised in Spanish Harlem, NYC where, at an early age, he developed his dance and choreography career at Hip Hop jams and clubs throughout the city. He is a historian of and activist within Hip Hop culture. Fabel is a co-founder of Tools Of War, a grass roots Hip Hop company covering publicity, events coordination and promotions, activism, bookings, and consultation. For more information please visit see the article written about Fabel in The New York Times.
Imam Khalid Latif is a Muslim Chaplain at New York University. Under his leadership, the Islamic Center at NYU became the first ever fully established Muslim student center at an institution of higher education in the United States. Imam Latif’s exceptional dedication and ability to cross interfaith and cultural lines on a daily basis brought him recognition throughout the city, so much so that in 2007 Mayor Michael Bloomberg nominated Imam Latif to become the youngest chaplain in history of the New York City Police Department at the age of 24.
Thursday, February 4, 2010 at 6pm
How Can We Remember the Bees and the Beats? Memory, Death and Disappearance in Brazilian Ritual Performances
A lecture in English by Leda Martins
Drawing on her concepts of "Spiral Time" and "Oraliture," Professor Martins will examine the ritual ceremonies of the Afro-Brazilian Congados and of the indigenous Maxakali. Analyzing the interconnections between death, image, and the ancestral, she explores these performances as practices of embodied memory through which these communities struggle against forgetting and disappearance.
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003 (get map)
This event is co-sponsored by the Africana Studies Program.
Leda Martins is a poet, playwright, and professor of Literature at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Her research focuses on the relationship between performance and memory, particularly in Afro-Brazilian traditions.
Friday, March 12, 2010
Radars and Fences 3: Borders / Affect / Space
A Symposium that includes Ricardo Dominguez, Teddy Cruz, and more TBA
Radars and Fences 2010 will explore the production of the Israel/Palestine and Mexico/US borders, examining how they engage affects, bodies, and spatial scales. Despite their seemingly confounding specificities, it is our intention to open up a dialogue between these borders in order to enable new terms of practical and political engagement. By bringing this plurality of perspectives into dialogue around the themes of affect and space, we hope to reinvigorate critical analysis of the border in all of its (im)materialities and locations.
Additional information: http://www.nyu.edu/media.culture/events/event.html?e_id=2324
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, the Hemispheric Institute, the Council for Media and Culture, the Taub Center for Israel Studies, the Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies, and the Humanities Initiative at New York University.
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003 (get map)
Ricardo Dominguez is a co-founder of The Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a group who developed Virtual-Sit-In technologies in 1998 in solidarity with the Zapatista communities in Chiapas, Mexico. He is co-Director of Thing (thing.net) an ISP for artists and activists. Ricardo is an Assistant Professor at UCSD in the Visual Arts Department, a Hellman Fellow, and Principal/Principle Investigator at CALIT2 (http://bang.calit2.net).
Teddy Cruz’ work dwells at the border between San Diego, California and Tijuana, Mexico, where he has been developing a practice and pedagogy that emerge out of the particularities of this bicultural territory and the integration of theoretical research and design production. Teddy’ Cruz has been recognized internationally in collaboration with community-based nonprofit organizations such as Casa Familiar for its work on housing and its relationship to an urban policy more inclusive of social and cultural programs for the city. He obtained a Masters in Design Studies from Harvard University and the Rome Prize in Architecture from the American Academy in Rome. He has recently received the 2004-05 James Stirling Memorial Lecture On The City Prize and is currently an Associate Professor in public culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at UCSD in San Diego.
January 7 through January 17th
MUST: The Inside Story
a performance by Peggy Shaw at The Public Theater
As part of the Under the Radar Festival, Hemispheric Institute's Artist in Residence Peggy Shaw in collaboration with CLOD ensemble will perform MUST: the Inside Story at The Public Theater. Ticket and schedule information is available on the festival's web site. (425 Lafayette Street) through January 17th.
Monday, March 22 12:30 PM
Hell House (2001)
Run Time: 85 minutes
Screening of the film by George Ratliff followed by a discussion.
Hell Houses are a distinctly American phenomenon which began in 1990 just outside of Dallas, at the Trinity Assembly of God Church. The original Hell House was conceived as a modern-day fire-and-brimstone sermon. Today, this religious ceremony of sorts is replete with actors, extensive lighting equipment and full audio-visual tech crews.
This event is part of the Religion and Politics in America Initiative.
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003 (get map)
George Ratliff, a Texas native, began his career in journalism. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin film program, Ratliff moved to Costa Rica to write for a Central American newsmagazine and become a correspondent for a Texas newspaper. After returning to the states, Ratliff redirected his efforts to film and has written and directed features, shorts, and television programs. His feature credits include the documentaries HELL HOUSE, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and received a theatrical release from 7th Art Releasing and was distributed on DVD by Plexifilm; and PLUTONIUM CIRCUS, which won Best Documentary Feature at the South by Southwest Film Festival.
Tuesday, December 8, 6pm
Book Launch: Guadalupe in New York: Devotion and
the Struggle for Citizenship Rights Among Mexican Immigrants
by Alyshia Gálvez
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003 (get map)
Thursday, November 5, 7 pm
America Ain't Ready
A reading by Pamela Sneed
Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
20 Cooper Square, 5th Floor
New York, NY 10003
(get map)
Pamela Sneed delivers scathing and raucously humorous commentary on some of the key issues of our time, taking her audience on a journey through popular culture, American politics, and the New York City underground scene of the '80s and '90s that insists on naming the unnamed and telling the untold.
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