[csaa-forum] ACS Virtual Lecture Series talk, February 21: Julieta Infantino (Circus, from popular to legitimized art)

[Timothy Laurie]

**apologies for cross-posting**

Dear colleagues,

The Association for Cultural Studies<http://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/> (ACS) welcomes you to an upcoming talk in its Virtual Lecture Series, by Julieta Infantino (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina), titled ‘Circus, from popular to legitimized art. Transformations in the valuations of circus arts in Argentina' (followed by a Q&A), which will take place on February 21st, 6 PM ART/ Argentina Time (GMT -3) (more information underneath).

For more information on the Virtual Lecture Series and upcoming talks, please visit: https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/virtual-lecture-series/<https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/virtual-lecture-series/>



Julieta Infantino (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) – Circus, from popular to legitimized art. Transformations in the valuations of circus arts in Argentina
February 21st, 2024
6 PM ART/ Argentina Time (GMT -3)

Abstract: Throughout my research career, the study of circus as a popular art has been a tool to analyze and register power relations, critical potentialities of arts and histories of hierarchies in Argentina. The circus has been an art form that passed from being discredited as a minor, popular and marginal art to being legitimized as the cradle of authentic national theater at the end of the nineteenth century, when Argentina established a unique circus form known as Circo Criollo. This circus style was characterized by a first part of circus skills and a second part of theatrical drama based on the criollista-gaucho genre derived from a literary movement that exalted the figure of the Argentine gaucho as an emblem of nationality. This fusion produced an innovative modality and a modification in the evaluative appraisals of the circus. However, this period of transitional appreciation ended, and the circus was again dismissed as a minor art by the middle of the 20th century. This presentation discusses this process and analyses the construction of hierarchies based on the weighting of the spoken drama and high art over the popular bodily based performances and the way these hierarchies become brands that continue to influence contemporary valuations of art in Argentina. It also reflects on the ways in which contemporary circus artists recover this art and rethink its popular character and its critical-political potentialities, focusing on the process of resurgence, redefinition and artification of the circus that took place in Argentina since the post-dictatorial 1980s.

Bio: Julieta Infantino is Professor and PhD in Anthropology at the University of Buenos Aires, and a researcher of the National Council of Scientific and Technical Research (CONICET). She is a specialist in the development of circus arts in Argentina and in Latin America, studying its historical and aesthetic characteristics, as well as identity and political aspects. She has integrated several research teams linked to the study of popular culture and cultural policies and has published books, compilations and articles in national and international academic journals. She is also responsible editor of Cuadernos de antropología social. Among her most recent publications are: “A arte do circo na América do Sul. Trajetórias, tradições e inovações na arena contemporânea. Sao Paulo: Ediciones SESC (2023); “Pedagogías circenses. Experiencias, trayectorias y metodologías”. Club Hem editors (2021); “The Criollo Circus (Circus Theatre) in Argentina. The emergence of a unique circus form in connection with the consolidation of the Argentine nation state”. In The Cambridge companion to the Circus (2021); “Working with circus artists: reflections on a process of collaborative research, participation and commitment,” Conjunctions: Transdisciplinary Journal of Cultural Participation (2018).



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Upcoming VLS talks (more details TBA):

March 19th, 5 PM GMT — Poppy Wilde (Birmingham City University, UK), 'Posthumanism and play: Embodying avatar-gamer entanglements'
April 16th, 8 PM CST/ China Standard Time (GMT +8 ) — Mengyu Luo (University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, PRC)
May 24th, 11 AM MDT/ Mountain Daylight Time (GMT -6) — Runchao Liu (University of Denver, USA)
June — Lindsay Balfour (Coventry University, UK)



For more information, visit https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/virtual-lecture-series/<https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/virtual-lecture-series/>

Archive of the previous talks https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/archive/<https://www.cultstud.org/wordpress/archive/>

Recordings are available on the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/@association_for_cultural_studies_acs_<https://archive.org/details/@association_for_cultural_studies_acs_>



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