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Interview with David Lozano = Entrevista con David Lozano

Lozano, David, Ramírez-Cancio, Marlène, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
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Title
Interview with David Lozano = Entrevista con David Lozano
Author/Creator
Lozano, David, Ramírez-Cancio, Marlène, Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics
Restrictions/Permissions
Copyright holder: Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, Contact information: 20 Cooper Square, Fifth Floor, New York, NY 10003, U.S.A., +1-212-998-1631 (business), +1-212-995-4423 (fax), hemi@nyu.edu, http://www.hemisphericinstitute.org
Language
Spanish
Date
2010 Nov. 11
Format
1 online resource (video file (video file (38 min., 15 sec.)) : sound, color.
Credits
David Lozano, interviewee ; Marlène Ramírez-Cancio, interviewer.
Notes

Interview with David Lozano, conducted by Marlène Ramírez-Cancio, Associate Director of Arts and Media at the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics. In this interview, David Lozano discusses the role of the body in the intertwining dynamics between arts and politics. Lozano's performance work explores the relational links between bodies, proposing powerful ways for evidencing and undoing embodied constructions of gender and citizenship. Considering performance as a site for surprise, and for the non-controlled, his work 'Marca y ego: Oficios para el cuerpo' offers a reflection upon how bodies are marked as 'abjected,' and how those bodies' textures are a surface that transmits meaning. Although the body is a vulnerable territory, it also can function as a means to subvert preconceptions about the body, within the body, and from the body.

David Lozano is a visual artist with a specialization in painting. He has a Masters degree in Visual and Fine Arts from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. He teaches at the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Universidad de los Andes, Santo Tomás de Aquino and the Academy of Superior Arts of Bogotá. Currently he is a teacher and the director of the School of Visual Arts at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia. As an artist, his work has focused on the investigation of the postmodern and globalized body.