Tour/Screening

En Parábola/
Conversations on Tragedy, Part I

June 8, 2024, 12-2pm

Leading up to National Puerto Rican Day, curator Natalia Viera Salgado and co-creator of En Parábola and co-author Nina Lucía Rodríguez will lead a special guided tour of the exhibition En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy, Part I, followed by a screening of the film.

En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy, Part I is a re-assemblage of the myth of Antigone created in collaboration with a cast of non-professional actors who are part of New York City’s Puerto Rican diasporic community. Directed by Natalia Lassalle-Morillo and developed through a multi-year process of collaborative theatrical rehearsals and experimental filmmaking, this multi-channel film emerged through the cast’s revising, re-writing, and performing of Antigone inspired by their lived and inherited experiences of migration and belonging.

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP is recommended and drop-ins welcome.

Image: Still from En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy Part I, Courtesy of Natalia Lassalle-Morillo.

Natalia Viera Salgado is a Puerto Rican curator and curatorial consultant based in New York City. She is also the founder of :Pública Espacio Cultural, an independent art space in Alto del Cabro, Santurce Puerto Rico. Her art historical research focuses on contemporary art in relation to decolonial practices, architecture, social and environmental justice, and new media with a keen interest in hybrid and interdisciplinary projects. She has worked at the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture, El Museo del Barrio, Art in General, Socrates Sculpture Park, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, and the Americas Society. Natalia holds an MA in Curatorial Practice from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and is currently the Associate Curator at the National Academy of Design and a curatorial resident at the Abrons Arts Center.

Nina Lucía Rodríguez is a multidisciplinary artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Some of the forms in which she works include performing, screenwriting, poetry, directing, and devising. Nina is a Western Mass Puerto Rican™️ and enjoys both leaf peeping and roasting an entire pig on a spit. She has aided in developing new work with theaters across the northeast, such as the Williamstown Theater Festival, Playwright’s Horizons, and Hartford Stage. She’s a co-writer of the web series, Gro Up, for which she also directed the pilot episode. The pilot for Gro Up was shown at the Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival, the Pan African Film and Arts Festival, and the Martha’s Vineyard Virtual Film Festival. Nina has a Bachelor of Arts in acting and a minor in comedy from Emerson College. Although she did complete her degree, she considers herself a “clown school dropout.” Nina is dedicated to taking risks, collaborating with other artists, and engaging with the communities that surround their art.

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