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Center for Advanced Study MillerComm2025: Monique Mojica, Ancestral Futures: Creating an Aesthetics of Resistance Through Indigenous Performance

Event Type

Lecture

Sponsor

Center for Advanced Study

Location

Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

Date

Nov 14, 2024   4:30 pm  

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Center for Advanced Study
MillerComm2025

Ancestral Futures: Creating an Aesthetics of Resistance Through Indigenous Performance

Monique Mojica
George A. Miller Visiting Artist
Actor, playwright, dramaturg

Thursday, November 14, 2024
4:30pm
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

GAM Visiting Artist Monique Mojica (Guna and Rappahannock) and University of Illinois Professor of Anthropology Brenda Farnell’s recent book, Chocolate Woman Dreams the Milky Way: Mapping Indigenous Embodied Performance (2023) chronicles a story of collaborative embodied exploration, land, and archival research mobilized to serve an Indigenous dramaturgy.  What emerges is an intersection of Indigenous literacies grounded in body, land, story, and language. Blurring the lines between artist and scholar they ask, How do we create an Indigenous theater that moves beyond the “victim narrative” while embracing an aesthetics of resistance?  

Book signing will follow the presentation.

Hosted by: Department of Anthropology and Spurlock Museum