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March 13, 14, &15<\/b><\/p>\n

John Jay College of Criminal Justice
\n524 West 59th. Street New York, NY, <\/a>10019<\/a><\/p>\n

Independent Artists Projects, NYC<\/p>\n

Chaw Ei Thein<\/b> (Burma\/NYC) \u201cLiving Monuments.\u201d With respondent Emily Hue<\/b>.<\/p>\n

Kymbali Craig and Samuel Encarnacion<\/b> (Bailey\u2019s Caf\u00e9, Brooklyn, NY,) \u201cSkin Deep, Skin Tight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Racquel De Loyola<\/b> (Philippines,) \u201cBlinded.\u201d<\/p>\n

Margit Edwards and Seth Baumrin<\/b> (NYC) \u201cSubpoetics \u2013 raw material, roots, and ethnodramaturgy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Vernice Miller, Soraya Broukheim, and Winsome Brown<\/b> (A Laboratory for\u00a0Actor Training, Brooklyn, NY) \u201cExperimental Theatre and Social Transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Performance and Justice: Representing Dangerous Truths<\/em>\u00a0is an interdisciplinary symposium on the interplay between broad definitions of performance and justice. The project brings together expertise in the performing arts, humanities, and social sciences.<\/p>\n

At John Jay College, the term \u201cjustice\u201dnow includes definitions beyond the \u201ccriminal,\u201d to encompass the academic, cultural, economic, environmental, international, legal, moral, poetic, political, racial, religious, social, and theoretical. For this project, we take \u201cperformance\u201d to include film, dance, performance art, and theatre. The intersections between performance and justice are characterized by sites of social activism that lend themselves to sociological readings and analyses. Thus the symposium interrogates the ways justice is construed and constructed in various contemporary works of art and through the deployment of performance-based work in various traditional and non-traditional spaces.\u00c2\u00a0 The social justice impact of such art is not limited to academia, but extends itself to the court-room, home, prison, streets, and the democratic project at large. Through the lens of dramaturgy as is understood in both the social sciences and performing arts, the symposium explores theoretical and practice-based negotiations of justice as informed by artists\u2019 prerogatives and the work of social activists.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/johnjay.jjay.cuny.edu\/performancejusticesymposium\/<\/a><\/p>\n