Web cuadernos are curated multi-media materials focused on particular topics and/or bodies of work relating to performance and politics in the Americas. They contain combinations of photos, videos, texts, hyperlinked essays, bibliographies, and audio recordings, to explore a specific topic. 

The collections are based on a loose scaffolding or outline designed to make connections between disciplines, to serve as a research resource for artists and scholars, and to solicit exchange and additional materials.

Each cuaderno is a work in progress. We invite our online community to add to our existing cuadernos by suggesting links and/or original materials. We also invite you to build your own web cuaderno and submit it to our site, to be archived in our collection, and highlighted in our newsletter.

The mission of the Web Cuadernos

The Hemispheric Institute identified a need to develop content online that both crosscuts disciplinary boundaries and invites further debate and discussion of performance and politics in the Americas. This initiative arose from a belief that the strongest resource on topics as complex and broad-reaching as these is one that is flexible and responsive to new developments. Therefore, web cuadernos offer a set of materials and concepts not as ends in themselves, but as points of departure for discussion and exchange between a diverse group of invidivuals in fields spanning the humanities, the social sciences and the arts.

The Institute also houses a small collection of archival materials ranging in scope from scholarly work on theories of performance, to video recordings of live performances, in several languages, from all over the Americas. In order to make these materials both available to the public, and relevant to larger contexts and debates, we have created web cuadernos.

Look out for our first web cuaderno to launch soon.
"Yuyachkani: Politics and Performance in Peru"