Through a focus on "contagion," this issue explores the enactment of social, aesthetic, and political formations of the social body when threatened or transformed by the presence of an/other.
The HEMISPHERIC INSTITUTE OF PERFORMANCE AND POLITICS
The Hemispheric Institute's website houses a vast collection of invaluable materials related to performance and politics in the Americas, including online archives of hundreds of hours of video footage; a series of multimedia casebooks or "web cuadernos"; our online journal e-misférica; images; artist profiles; interviews; discussion forums, and more. Some of the materials are accessible to the public, and some are for institutional members only.