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The Archive and the Repertoire  Performances function as vital acts of transfer, transmitting social knowledge, memory, and a sense of identity through reiterated, or what Richard Schechner has called ‘‘twice-behaved behavior.’’ What one society considers a performance might be a nonevent elsewhere Civic obedience, resistance, citizenship, gender, ethnicity, and sexual identity, for example, are rehearsed and performed daily in the public sphere 6 For Turner, writing in the 1960s and 1970s, performances revealed culture’s deepest, truest, and most individual character. Guided by a belief in their universality and relative transparency, he claimed that populations could grow to understand each other through their performances. For others, of course, performance means just the opposite: the constructedness of performance signals its artificiality—it is ‘‘put on,’’ antithetical to the ‘‘real’’ and ‘‘true.’’  Supervisors evaluate workers’ efficacy on the job...

Hospital Borda This hospital is in Argentina and is a psychiatric hospital. However, it is different in that it is focused on the "de-asylumization" of the institution by "seeking to restore dignity and respect to the mentally ill and to de-medicalize and de-stigmatize treatment for them". The doctors and community members are accomplishing this by creating a variety of activities for the patients to do, and one of those is to express their feelings through art. The art is not only there as a form of creative release for the patients, but it also accomplishes the goal of de-asylumization by covering the dreary gray walls of the hospital walls with colorful pictures that give a breath of life to the place. The art also spills into the outer walls of the building which allows for outsiders to the see the work of the patients and to appreciate it. My favorite mural is this one because it caught my attention as soon as I saw it. I feel that it speaks to me abo...

Bomb It This documentary had numerous points that I butted heads with. First, I really do not agree with the idea of graffiti. To me, it is wrong to take a wall that someone legally owns, and putting your name on it. I cannot seem to wrap my mind around this concept of just writing your name on places and somehow it gives the people pleasure? Yes, I do recognize it as art but I do not respect it. Like a man in the film said, "If you do not erase it, then your entire neighborhood will be covered with it. It is anarchy". To me, this concept of "tagging" and "bombing" is not something that is neat or progressive. It seems to me that some of the people that do this tend to spend their money on paint rather than things that actually need like one person referenced in the film. However, I do respect the people that can go about this through legal means, and I would consider them legitimate artists. I do not consider those that tag and run from the law a...

"Latinoamérica" and "Querido F.B.I." In the song "Latinoamérica" by Calle 13, there are many references to the issues of identity and memory. For example, in the first few lines of this song, the lyrics "I am what they left behind, I am the leftovers of what they have stolen... Peasant labor for your consumption". These lines pertain to the issues of memory and identity because the singer is referring to the fact that the U.S is currently holding Puerto Rico as a territory. While the people may be considered citizens, there is a history of the U.S excluding the Puerto Ricans from access to certain fundamental rights such as access to the first amendment, freedom of speech. Also, these lines are remembering the peasant labor that was used back when Puerto Rico was used as nothing more than a place to farm sugar cane. Back during colonial times, Puerto Rico was under the rule of Spain who made the natives farm sugar cane and did not treat them...

  Rebel Diaz Concert & Workshop At first, I was very skeptical of the workshop that Rebel Diaz was hosting because I was worried that it was going to be something along the lines of "Our president is awful! We need to get him out of office! This is all his fault" because from what I have researched about them, they really do not like our president. I do have to say that they exceed my expectations and established a strong ethos with me due to the sheer amount of research they seem to have done in the subject matter that they discussed with us. Something about the workshop that was surprising to me was how the Bronx used to look like an absolute warzone. I have lived in small towns my entire life and I have never seen such a rough looking place. I also did not expect a place in the U.S, AKA "The Best Country" to look like that. People should not have to live in such conditions and I feel incredibly powerless to help enact change. Something that was fairly ...

Rebel Diaz The group Rebel Diaz are brothers that go by the names Rodstarz and G1- who grew up in Chicago and came to fame in the South Bronx. According to  https://rebeldiaz.com , "Somo hijos de political refugees from Chile who fled a CIA-funded dictatorship in the 1970s". These two brothers were raised by revolution and hip-hop allowed them to express themselves. They started producing rebel rap "since the Clinton era". Their unique sound is influenced by "South American folk, house, and Latin percussion gettin' down with boom-bap and 808s". Rebel Diaz as a group is very outspoken, as neither of the brothers are afraid to say what they think and will fight for what they believe in. According to the analytics of the Official Rebel Diaz Youtube channel, the most popular song produced by the group is "Which Side Are You On?" which features artists Dead Prez and Rakaa Iriscience. This song is talking about how there are two sides; th...

Rapping for a Revolution (This article also gave me an incredibly hard time. I kept re-reading to try and understand where the answers to the questions were but I could not formulate a complete answer that made sense. However, I gave it my best shot.) In this article Rapping for a Revolution,  the author is discussing how music is being used to spread political awareness to people and to get people active and informed with politics. A key term that is defined in this article is hegemony, which is defined as "the way in which the dominated or subordinate consent to their own domination by ruling classes, as opposed to being simply forced or coerced into accepting inferior positions. The opposite of the word is counter-hegemony, which refers to "a creation of an alternative hegemony on the terrain of civil society in preparation for a war of position". The man that coined the term Hegemony had views of elections that were similar to the definition of Hegemony....

Class The first day of class was a success! I was honestly quite nervous due to the fact that I was not sure what to expect. Also, I was doubting my understanding of the readings. I read them both twice but I always get nervous with having to read and answer questions because I do not want to make any silly mistakes or miss anything important. I enjoyed the open, informal discussion and the 3 hours seems to fly by. Borges The start of "Funes de Memorius" by Jorge Luis Borges took place 1884 in Fray Bentos. The narrator is Jorge Luis Borges who is an Argentine that has a ranch in San Francisco. Jorge meets the character of interest in the story in passing when Jorge's friend, Bernardo, asked Ireneo Funes what time it was and he gave them the exact time without having a clock to look at. Funes in a boy that lives in Fray Bentos with his mother and he was known for being quite a peculiar individual. “Ireneo Funes, known for certain peculiarities such as avoiding con...