Contours ArteCalle is a collaborative research project, a publication, and a mode of change-making in the Americas. Ethnographic methodologies have supported the Contours ArteCalle Project since 2019, and simultaneously, the project has continuously generated some original insights about ethnography. This talk will weave together knowledges from Dance and Performance Studies, Latinx and Latin American Studies, Public and Community-Engaged Scholarship, and Decolonial Feminist Ethnography. Stories of Contours kinship, anti-racist-arts activism, and corporealities in Cuba, Mexico, and cyberspace ground Cindy García’s improvisational praxis of ethnography.
Cindy García is the Chair of the Department of Art History and an Associate Professor in the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance at the University of Minnesota. She is a dance and cultural studies theorist and performance ethnographer. She is the founder of decolonial feminist book series, Contours ArteCalle, published digitally through the University of Minnesota Libraries. She is the author of “The Small Activisms of Everyday Life” in Contours (2022) and Salsa Crossings: Dancing Latinidad in Los Angeles (2013).
This event is made possible through generous support from the Departments of English and Dance, The Center for Folklore Studies, the Center for Ethnic Studies, the Center for Latin American Studies, the Humanities Institute, and the Latinx Studies Program.
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL