University of Virginia, College and Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

José Torres-Tama, "Performance Art & Social Change: The Artist as Provocateur"

September 14, 2020

Live art lecture on José Torres-Tama's documentary theater process for empowering and chronicling the voices of undocumented immigrant communities and marginalized communities of color.
 

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This event is part of the following series:

 

CYBER RESIDENCY ON PERFORMANCE ART AND SOCIAL CHANGE
with José Torres-Tama
online September 14-19, 2020
presented by the University of Virginia Department of Drama with support from the IHGC Lab in Performance Cultures & Embodied Creative Practices
 
A weeklong series of online work sessions and performances with award-winning Torres-Tama, who uses visual and performance art to explore the effects of mass media on race relations, the “North American Dream” mythology, and anti-immigrant hysteria.

 

Homer Statue
Webinar
7:00 pm