09 Aug Performing Race, Performing Space Research Focus Group
We are interested in everyday performances and performances of the everyday that critique constructions of race and gender as tied to effaced histories. Our conception of everyday performance attends to theorizations of spatial arrangements such as staging, ritual, and digitality that enrich our understanding of material conditions and draw attention to traces of the imperial in everyday life. Attention to the everyday will allow us to think through race, sex, and gender as fluid but materially grounded concepts as we work to be responsive to moments, the interstitial, and the quotidian as dimensions of everyday performances.
Conveners:
Clara Chin, English
cchin@ucsb.edu
Taylor Holmes, English
taylorholmes@ucsb.edu
Dozandri Mendoza, Linguistics
doza@ucsb.edu
Alex Mireles, Feminist Studies
mmireles@ucsb.edu
Jessica Nakamura, Theater and Dance
jnakamura@theaterdance.ucsb.edu
Michael Parra, English
michael_parra@ucsb.edu
Erick Rodriguez, English
erickrodriguez@ucsb.edu
Diana Sanchez, Chicana/o Studies
dianasanchez@ucsb.edu
Pictured above: Senga Nengudi, Maren Hassinger, Nao Bustamante, William Pope.L, and Nao Bustamante.