Current cuadernos:
Yuyachkani
Hijos
 
Forthcoming
Female Performance
Popular Performance 
Mexico 2001
Queer Performance
 
What is a cuaderno?
Web cuadernos are on-line curations of multi-media materials focused on particular topics and/or bodies of work relating to performance and politics in the Americas. They contain combinations of photos, videos, texts,hyperlinks, bibliographies, and audio recordings, each piece gathered to explore a specific topic. The collections are based on a loose scaffolding or outline designed to make connections between disciplines, to serve as a research resource for artists and scholars, and to solicit exchange and additional materials. Each cuaderno is a work in progress. We invite our on-line community to add to our existing cuadernos by suggesting hyperlinks and/or original materials. We also invite you to build your own web cuaderno and submit it to our site, to be archived in our collection, and highlighted in our newsletter.
The Mission of the Web Cuadernos
The Hemispheric Institute for Performance and Politics identified a need to develop content online that both crosscuts disciplinary boundaries and invites further debate and discussion of performance and politics in the Americas. This initiative arose from a belief that the strongest resource on topics as complex and broad-reaching as these is one that is flexible and responsive to new developments. Therefore, web cuadernos offer a set of materials and concepts not as ends in themselves, but as points of departure for discussion and exchange between a diverse group of invidivuals in fields spanning the humanities, the social sciences and the arts. The Insitute also houses a small collection of archival materials ranging in scope from scholarly work on theories of performance, to video recordings of the live performance, in several languages, from all over the Americas. In order to make these materials both available to the public, and relevant to larger contexts and debates, we have created web cuadernos. Interested in learning more??? contact us. 
 
Cuadernos
Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani:
Performance and Poltics in Peru
Grupo Cultural Yuyachkani is an activist theater group, with a 30 year history of performing in reaction to, and in defiance of politics in Peru. In this web cuaderno, we have gathered a myriad of materials linking the work of this important theater group to the political and social history of Peru. Launch cuaderno
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HIJOS:
In this web cuaderno, which we hope will be the first of several on the performance of political protest, we have collected materials on HIJOSí strategies, philosophies, and practices of resistance and activism, placing them in a context of political performance in Argentinaís history which began with the coup and continued with the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo.

En este cuaderno, que esperamos sea el primero de varios sobre el performance de la protesta politica, hemos reunido materiales sobre las estrategias, filosofias, y practicas de resistencia y activismo de HIJOS, situandolos en un contexto de actuacion politica en la historia de Argentina, que comenzó con el golpe de estado y continuó con las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo. Launch cuaderno
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