12. TRAUMA AS DURATIONAL PERFORMANCE

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In this paper which is dedicated to Richard Schechner, Diana Taylor describes her guided visit to Villa Grimaldi, a former torture and extermination camp on the outskirts of Santiago de Chile. Through the lens of her camera and her relationship with the guide of the walking tour, the survivor called Pedro Matta, the author points out affinities between the concepts of trauma and performance, both based on repetition and always happening in the present. Memory, testimony, embodied practices, affect, history and identity are some aspects that Diana Taylor analyses during this article which subject, in her opinion, is so multi layered that the personal, inter-personal, social and political come together, and trauma can be considered a durational performance. DIANA TAYLOR é Doutora em Literatura Comparada pela Universidade de Washington, Professora do Departamento de Estudos da Performance da New York University, fundadora e diretora do Instituto Hemisférico de Performance e Política das Américas. Publicou, entre outros, os premiados livros The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Américas e Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform, ambos de 2003. DIANA TAYLOR is a Professor of the Studies of Performance Department at New York University. She has a PHD in Compared Literature from Washington University, is the head of the Hemispherical Institute of Performance and Politics of America. She is the author of The Archive and the Repertoire: Performing Cultural Memory in the Américas ( 2003) e Holy Terrors: Latin American Women Perform( 2003).