Conversatorio: The Provocation of Memory

Join this week’s festival artists Lukas Avendaño, Conchi León and Dani Zelko in conversation about their work, and the intersections between their creative processes – though divergent in outcome, each artists’ practice seeks to provoke memories, document stories, dismantle identities and re-claim voice.

All conversatorio sessions are free and open to the public.

October 6, 2018 at 12:00 PM

About the artist

Lukas Avendaño is a internally recognized Zapotec performance artist from Mexico whose work represents a queer performance intervention of Mexican nationalistic representations, particularly that of Zapotec Tehuana women. Avendaño embodies the complex identity of “muxes”, or male homosexuals from the Tehuantepec Isthmus, where they were born.

Conchi León is a renowned playwright, actress and director from Yucatan, and founder of the Sa’as Tún theater company. Her artistic career has been marked by the development of texts and testimonial montages that rescue the memory, tradition and customs of the Mayan culture, with a special focus on women.

Dani Zelko is an award-winning artist who works at the intersection of poetry and contemporary art. He has been recognized by the Visible Awards (EEUU), the Argentinian Ministry of Culture and the Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas (Argentina). Zelko’s presentations are made up of words and people, that are put together through various procedures to generate actions and events.