Carmelita Tropicana + Ela Troyano: Sister Acts: Low-Residency Master of Fine Arts: Visiting Artist and Scholar Series
@ MacLean Ballroom
112 S Michigan Ave Chicago, IL 60603
Opening Monday, July 8th, from 6PM - 7:30PM
Carmelita Tropicana and Ela Troyano
Sister Acts
Monday, July 8, 6:00–7:30 p.m. CT
Carmelita Tropicana (aka Alina Troyano) is a writer and performer who straddles the worlds of performance art and theater, using irreverent humor and fantasy as subversive tools to challenge cultural stereotypes and rewrite history from multiple perspectives. Ela Troyano is an interdisciplinary artist whose projects bring together different aesthetic histories and genres: downtown New York avant-garde film and performance, queer cinema, Cuban-American cinema-in-exile, and Latine film and video. This lecture will center on the long-time collaboration between two sisters, from their early childhood in La Habana, Cuba, and their rise in New York City’s downtown arts scene in the 1980s.
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