Join CLACS and the School of Art and Design in welcoming Professor Diana Taylor (NYU). Professor Taylor is the author of Theatre of Crisis: Drama and Politics in Latin America (1991), which won the Best Book Award given by New England Council on Latin American Studies. In 2021 she was awarded the Edwin Booth Award for “outstanding contribution to the NYC theatre community, and to promote integration of professional and academic theatre." See additional bio information on the NYU directory.
Since the onset of COVID-19, many of us have had to deal with the trauma of loss—the lives lost, the livelihoods that have disappeared, the environmental destruction, the assumptions about social and political responsibility, the unspoken mandate to forget—and move on. Without pitting individualized experiences and treatments of trauma against collective ones, I propose here that performance-based reparative memory practices and trauma-driven performances offer victims, survivors, artists and activists ways to address the global/local repercussions of the pandemic that also, indirectly, help us imagine livable futures.
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