Fernando Calzadilla
Biographic Data
| ID | 1695784 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fernando Calzadilla |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fernando |
| FAMILY NAME | Calzadilla |
| SIGNATURE | CALZADILLA F |
| AFFILIATIONS | New York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Between performance and archive
This essay is a fictionalised dialogue that, while adjusting to publishing guidelines, also takes liberties in favour of fluency and style. Laura and Paul are fictional characters who discuss the work Goddesses: looking or looked at in relation to the ontology of performance and its documentation. Laura’s conclusion is that while curatorial practice and art history would dwell on the photographs alone, designating Goddesses’ images as their inten…
Artists in the Field
Abdel Hernández is a Cuban artist, art critic, and cultural theorist. His work has evoked that of anthropologists, as in his performances, installations, and experiences in remote rural communities in Cuba, and in his exhibits/installations in the milieu of the everyday life of the urban poor. The various performances and installations were meant to explore the concept of evocation and its relation to ethical practice. In some cases artists devel…
YokastaS (review)
TV talk shows are the spine of this new play exploring the many possibilities for Yokasta (also known as Jocasta in Oedipus Rex), the Queen of Thebes and mother-wife of Oedipus. The logic of words—as they lead us to definitions of reality or obscure hopes of obtaining anything definite—runs through YokastaS from the opening scene in which she is interviewed by a character named Media "to set the record straight" through to a final interview with …
Performing the Political
Each week like clockwork, Encapuchados—“hooded ones”—appear on the streets of Caracas to protest. Protest what? To what effect? Calzadilla examines the Encapuchados phenomenon in terms of Venezuelan gendered notions of virility, the performance of political identity and spectatorship, and finally, an embodiment of an imagined political community
Identity case-D
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Performing the Political
Each week like clockwork, Encapuchados—“hooded ones”—appear on the streets of Caracas to protest. Protest what? To what effect? Calzadilla examines the Encapuchados phenomenon in terms of Venezuelan gendered notions of virility, the performance of political identity and spectatorship, and finally, an embodiment of an imagined political community
Identity case-D
YokastaS (review)
TV talk shows are the spine of this new play exploring the many possibilities for Yokasta (also known as Jocasta in Oedipus Rex), the Queen of Thebes and mother-wife of Oedipus. The logic of words—as they lead us to definitions of reality or obscure hopes of obtaining anything definite—runs through YokastaS from the opening scene in which she is interviewed by a character named Media "to set the record straight" through to a final interview with …
Artists in the Field
Abdel Hernández is a Cuban artist, art critic, and cultural theorist. His work has evoked that of anthropologists, as in his performances, installations, and experiences in remote rural communities in Cuba, and in his exhibits/installations in the milieu of the everyday life of the urban poor. The various performances and installations were meant to explore the concept of evocation and its relation to ethical practice. In some cases artists devel…
Between performance and archive
This essay is a fictionalised dialogue that, while adjusting to publishing guidelines, also takes liberties in favour of fluency and style. Laura and Paul are fictional characters who discuss the work Goddesses: looking or looked at in relation to the ontology of performance and its documentation. Laura’s conclusion is that while curatorial practice and art history would dwell on the photographs alone, designating Goddesses’ images as their inten…
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