On Wednesday August 29 we gathered for the first time and discussed preliminary definitions of our main terms–Theatre, Film, and Performance Art. We talked a bit about our interest in these media and their relationship to various definitions and understanding of the terms ‘Hispanic,’ ‘Latino American,’ and ‘Latinx,’ among others.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhEbM-Cz-AA
We discussed a clip from Blood Sign, an installation by Ana Mendieta, and its inscription of iconography, gender, materials, and a deconstructed sense of identity. If you would like to comment on the terms we discussed, or Mendieta’s installation, please respond to this prompter.
NOTE: I ask that you inscribe your posts on the particular string of discussion we are going to establish, according to the weeks of the semester. If you have a thread DIFFERENT from what we are discussing, you can start a different thread; however, if your post relates to what you have read and we have discussed in class, please choose the respective week/thread, so we can keep these as a sort of virtual conversation. I am going to upload a prompter like this every week, so you can add your blogpost to the thread. Let me know if you have any questions or concerns about it.