Guadalupe Martinez Reading

In this audio recording, Guadalupe Martinez reads a section from her course syllabus on Performance Art. She taught this course at UBC in 2018, and the questions she raises on this syllabus are questions reflected in her creative works (discussed in her interviews). Martinez stresses the overlap of poetics and politics in performance art and how the embodiment of such ideas contributes to larger discussions. However, she also notes that performance art is being changed by its recent acceptance into more dominant / mainstream culture and academia, and that these changes impact how performance art functions in relation to poetry and politics.