The University of Wisconsin-Madison
VISUAL CULTURE CLUSTER
February 27-March1, 2006
Visiting Speaker Jose Esteban Munoz
José Esteban Muñoz is chair of the department of Performance Studies at New York University ’s Tisch School of the Arts. His theoretical work in the intersectional area of queer and critical race studies includes his influential book Disidentifications: Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics ( Minnesota , 1999). His articles have appeared in the journals Screen , Women & Performance, GLQ, TDR, and Social Text as well as in such anthologies as Dancing Desires and Performing Hybridity . He is the coeditor of Pop Out: Queer Warhol, Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America and also of a special issue of the journal Women and Performance titled “Queer Acts.” With Ann Pellegrini he edits the NYU Press book series Sexual Cultures: New Directions from the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies .
Lecture Monday, February 27, 5pm Chazen L1140
The Vulnerability Artist: Latina Performativity and Affect
This presentation, excerpted from Muñoz's forthoming book, Feeling Brown:
Ethnicity, Affect and Performance, proposes that affect might be a better
gauge to understand the particularity of different groups (including sexual
and ethnic minorities) than identity. The lecture will consider how the
realm of emotion is a valuable space where recognition and belonging happen
for groups likes Latinas and queers. The lecture will focus on the work of
performance artist Nao Bustamente as an example of cultural production that
maps some of the various ways in which affective difference is enacted and
performed by different communities.
Workshop Tuesday, February 28 from 3-5pm
Cruising Utopia
In this workshop we focus on the question, how do we perform utopia? This advanced workshop in performance studies research will draw on his forthcoming book, Cruising Utopia: the Performance and Politics of Queer Futurity, where José Muñoz considers questions of futurity and queer potentiality. The seminar’s main charge will be the contemplation of a critical utopian hermeneutic and performance practice. The work of artists Ray Johnson and Kevin McCarty, philosopher Ernst Bloch, and other recent scholarship on queer time and performance will be discussed.
Seating for this workshop is limited and advanced reading is required
Please contact visualculture@education.wisc.edu for the readings and to register for the workshop
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