Documenting Performance: Queer Nuyorican Archival Poetics” | Lecture by Karen Jaime from spit lesbians Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 39 min 73 sec
✓ Published: 29-Mar-2019

Description:
In this talk, Karen Jaime interrogates the difficulties faced in attempting to establish an historic archive of performance at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. Jaime draws on over 20 years of experience as both a scholar and artist who worked and performed at the Cafe since the late 1990s, and as a current member of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe Founders Archive Project. Her work with the Founders Archive Project seeks to trace a lineage beginning with the organic artistic gatherings in Miguel Algarín’s