Bárbara Lázara: Sonora en el Silencio

23.02.2023 / 19:00 – 21:00
With Bárbara Lázara

Sonora en el Silencio is a lecture performance about the process of recovering the subjugated archive of self-taught writer and journalist, Olivia Zuñiga (Mexico, 1914–90), whose radical self-reflective literature and unashamedly sensuous beauty led to her broad and influential work being largely excluded. Presented by her great-granddaughter, Bárbara Lázara, the performance unfolds along two routes: the first focuses on historical and archival research exploring the possibilities of using Zuñiga’s biography to counter-read the hegemonic history of the period in which she lived; the second involves heterodox practices of spiritual alterity aimed at mediating “in between worlds,” methods of great significance in Mexico where there is a deep understanding of the complexities embodied in the fields of popular religiosity and traditional medicine. These practices, influential in different sectors of society, constitute a perpetual resistance to the constant institutional disarticulation of Latin American memory.

Dramaturgy: Jorge Pérez Escamilla

In Spanish and English, free admission

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Picture Credit: Elena Pardo