A lecture on the history of performance and dance from an embodied, decolonial perspective. For the last few years, Nirlyn Seijas––choreographer, curator, dancer, mother, and feminist––has been researching the work of eleven Latin American performance artists between the 1970s and 2000s, among them works by Ana Mendieta and Maria Teresa Hincapié. At the heart of these artists’ work lies an engagement with patriarchal and colonial violence towards women’s bodies. Seijas will present the motivation and questions that drove her research as well as her methodologies, including the re-activation and re-performance of art works.
