"Corpolíticas/Body Politics in the Americas: Formations of Race, Class and Gender." Documentary of the Hemispheric Institute Encuentro, Buenos Aires, June 2007.

(Documentary by Chris Tabron and Nohemi Contreras)

Every two years, the Hemispheric Institute hosts an Encuentro—part academic conference, part performance festival—in a different site in the Americas. Fostering experimentation, dialogue, and collaboration, each Encuentro brings together approximately five hundred scholars, artists, activists and students to take part in a ten-day program of keynote lectures, work groups, performances, installations, roundtable discussions, visual arts exhibits, video screenings and hands-on performance workshops. As we explore the relationship between expressive culture and politics in the Americas, we build on the premise that the practices we study and participate in cannot be thought from any one place, no single vantage point or theory can account for them.