The Body as Border: Latin American Performance Artists Confront Identity and Displacement in the American Public Sphere
Across the United States, a generation of Latin American and Latinx performance artists is transforming lived experience into urgent public art — using their own bodies, physical spaces, and inherited ritual as instruments of political witness. These works do not ask audiences to observe from a comfortable distance; they demand direct confrontation with the realities of immigration, cultural erasure, and the contested meaning of belonging in contemporary America.