Ep. 42: Conversatorio on the bicultural mind
November 11, 2020
“The accent is a trace of something that does not want to go invisible. Contrary to the way we study traces in archaeology – those traces are marks of something that has gone.”- Marta Marin Domine
From the CAMINOS 2015 festival of new performance works, researchers, academics and the festival audience gathered to discuss: How can performance articulate the condition of being bilingual, and of crossing cultural boundaries? How do bilingual performers negotiate their “border” spaces while resisting notions of authenticity, and othering practices?
In order of voices you will hear, the panelists are:
María Constanza Guzmán, Ph.D: Graduate Program Director of Translation Studies, York University.
Bruce Gibbons Fell, Toronto-based Chilean playwright.
Sasha Kovacs, Artist, Performance scholar, Core/Founding member, Ars Mechanica, Ph.D. candidate at University of Toronto.
Elena Basile, Poet, Translator, Translation scholar, Artist.
Margaret Manson, Faculty of Education, Glendon College, Research Associate York University.
Marta Marin Domine, Director of the Centre for Memory & Testimony Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.
Carla Melo, a researcher, director and performer, the Conversatorio facilitator for CAMINOS 2015 and current Chair of the Board of Directors for Aluna Theatre.
Show Notes
- Epistemology, the study of knowledge which asks such questions as “What is knowledge?”, “How is knowledge acquired?”, and “How do we know what we know?”
- Aníbal Quijano, a Peruvian sociologist known for having developed the concept of coloniality of power .
- Fabián Severo, an Uruguayan poet.
- Gloria Anzaldúa, an American scholar of Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory.
- Chileans Humberto Maturana and Francisco Varela are particularly known for creating the term “autopoiesis” about the self-generating, self-maintaining structure in living systems, and concepts such as structural determinism and structure coupling.
- J.L. Austin, a British philosopher of language credited with developing the speech act theory.
- Marine Life, a play by Rosa Labordé presented at this CAMINOS festival in 2015 and later produced around the country.
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