Variopintos

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Marcela A. Fuentes (marshagall) es artista e investigadora de performance. En el año 2001 recibió la beca Fulbright/ Fondo Nacional de las Artes para estudiar en la Universidad de Nueva York donde obtuvo el doctorado en estudios de performance. En el período 2008-2011 fue investigadora postdoctoral en la UCLA y enseñó en los departamentos de Teatro, de Español, y de Estudios de Género. Desde el 2012 es profesora en el departamento de estudios de performance de la Universidad Northwestern donde imparte seminarios de grado y postgrado sobre performance y nuevos medios, género y performance, y performance como herramienta de investigación. Su libro, Performance Constellations: Networks of Protest and Activism in Latin America (U. Michigan Press, 2019)/ Activismos tecnopolíticos. Constelaciones de performance (Eterna Cadencia, 2020), analiza el uso de la tecnología y de estrategias de acción simbólica en protestas y activismos en el continente americano en el período 1994-2015. Junto a Diana Taylor editó la antología Estudios avanzados de performance publicada en español por el Fondo de Cultura Económica. Como artista de performance sus trabajos más recientes son Sujeto Transnacional, conferencia-performance sobre las políticas migratorias actuales en Estados Unidos, y su colaboración con el colectivo australiano Hydra Poesis en la obra multimedial Prompter. Es consultora externa de la Bienal de Performance, Argentina, y miembro del Consejo Directivo del Instituto Hemisférico de Performance y Política. Reparte sus días entre las ciudades de Chicago, Los Angeles y Buenos Aires (ChicLAires).

Marcela A. Fuentes (marshagall) is a performance scholar and artist. Her research focuses on tactical uses of performance and networked media in late 20th and early 21st century activisms. Her book, Performance Constellations: Networks of Protest and Activism in Latin America (U. Michigan Press, 2019), tracks the development of the relationship between online and offline protests carried out in response to neoliberal globalization in the Western hemisphere.  Fuentes’ s research also extends to the digital humanities and the emerging forms of analyzing, documenting, and teaching performance through digital tools. Fuentes’s teaching interests include theories of embodiment, digital performance, networked social movements, social art tactics, practice as research, and transnational cultures. Her essays and articles have been published in the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, Text and Performance Quarterly, e-misférica, Theatre Research International, Conjunto, Moléculas Malucas, Página 12, LatFem, and edited volumes on transnational performance and activism.

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This is a blog about performance, about traveling, about in-betweens, life in Chicago, Los Angeles, and Buenos Aires. It is an experiment about the labor of writing about performance that aims to set in motion its own seductions.”Variopintos” [variegated, diverse, colorful, multi] was inspired by the panel organized by the biannual LA performance journal, Native Strategies at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions in April of 2011. The panel was the conclusion of the performance series So Funny It Hurts curated by Brian Getnick and it asked performers, writers, bloggers, and the audience what it means to perform, to watch a performance, and to write about it.

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