C Room, 2014, Presented at Museo Folklórico Don Tomás Morel, Santiago, D.R. as part of En Mas': Carnival and Performance Art of the Caribbean, a traveling exhibition organized by Independent Curator International and curated by Claire Tancons and Christa Thompson. Photo: Raymond Marero

 BACK STAGES by Shannon Jackson discusses C Room in Chapter 13: “Nicolás's work provides a safe space to air fears, taboos, and memories, positioning the vernacular not only as object of study but also as method of study. C Room offers a flexible space in which to experiment with their reenactment, delicately reviving a performance archive that needs care and protection to live at all.” 

Shannon Jackson explores a range of disciplinary, institutional, and political puzzles that engage the social and aesthetic practice of performance in this collection of twenty essential essays spanning her career. Back Stages starts by considering the historical connection between performance practice and movements of social reform, while later writings analyze disciplinary debates on the place of performance in higher education and within the contemporary field of socially engaged art, tracking fraught and allied relationships to literary studies, art history, visual culture, theater, social theory.

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