Genealogías de resistencia performática: Primeros avances de una investigación sobre teatro y derechos humanos

What does independent theater do for the building of memories of State Terrorism in Argentina? How does it nourish and strengthen struggles for different types of human rights and for the recognition and expansion of citizenship? Our research project, which receives support from PAIO 2013 and UNDAVCyT 2015, has two lines of inquiry for the 2003-2015 memory period. On the one hand, it analizes theater collectives and theater events that renovated the language of human rights as a political grammar under the light of memory building of the last civic-military dictatorship. The paper argues that the theater cycle Nuestro Teatro 2013-2015 redefined violences beyond crimes against humanity, and underscored rights which are still pending in democratic times. On other hand, the paper elaborates on how our research seeks to characterize and support the activist work of Teatro x la Identidad 2015, and of Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo.