There will be two performances of “States of Vulnerability,” presented in conjunction with the lecture, Writings in Contemporary Latin American Theatre. The two events are sponsored by the Departments of Theatre and Dance, Art and Art History, Spanish and Portuguese, the Davis Humanities Institute, the Performance Studies and the Cultural Studies Graduate Groups, and the Hemispheric Institute.

The performance was created and is performed by Victor Viviescas, Professor of Universidad Nacional de Colombia Research-Creation group Pensar Sonido Universidad Nacional de Colombia and Teatro Vreve. 

“States of Vulnerability” will be performed on Jan. 18 and 19 at 7 p.m. The event is free, open to the public and performed in the Arena Theatre, Wright Hall. 

“States of Vulnerability” is a theatrical action that links the dramaturgy of the landscape with the sound, the spatial interaction, and the presence of a performer on stage. Empty space becomes a place of search through the inhabiting of the space by presence.

The actor is alone on stage and recognizes the presence of the spectator as a witness of his own inhabiting space. In the journey, eternal ritornello of occupying and populating the space, objects take places and move around filling it with layers of presence. The presence is estranged while watching the drift of the objects with nostalgia. The naked presence inhabits the instant and experiences the condition of vulnerability of what it is. The vulnerability of the actor in his presence resonates and make resonate the plural stories of the men and women who inhabit the territory. The naked presence in space is landscape. The view and the memory of the spectator occupy the landscape. The occupation of space by memory creates stories.