Raznovich biography
Hemispheric Institute Collection on Diana Raznovich
Raznovich, Diana (Role: Donor)
Taylor, Diana, 1950- (Role: Donor)
2 Linear Feet
(1.5 boxes)
Materials are in English. Some materials are in Spanish.
Diana Raznovich is an Argentinean playwright and cartoonist who has produced numerous performances and installations and has worked with New York University's Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, a consortium of institutions, artists, scholars, and activists dedicated to exploring the relationship between expressive behavior (broadly construed as performance) and social and political life in the Americas.
The collection contains scripts, essays, drafts, and reviews relevant to Diana Raznovich's work. In particular are the drafts and artwork for her book Defiant Acts: Four Plays (2002). There are some slides and photos of performances of Raznovich's work as well as some 3.5" floppy disks with more writings on them. The oversize box contains large drafts of drawings for an untitled book on domestic violence as well as other works.
Materials are open without restrictions.
Copyright (and related rights to publicity and privacy) to materials in this collection held by Diana Raznovich were transferred to New York University in 2006 by Diana Taylor. Permission to publish or reproduce materials in this collection must be secured from the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive. Please contact tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu.
Donated by Diana Taylor and Diana Raznovich in 2006. The accession number associated with this gift is 1950.074.
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Interview with Diana Raznovich, conducted by Mila Aponte-González, during the 7th Encuentro of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, held in August of 2009 in Bogotá, Colombia under the title Staging Citizenship: Cultural Rights in the Americas. In this interview, Diana Raznovich talks about her take on how her particular performance-related work makes a political intervention in the public sphere. This interview complements Diana Raznovich's and Margarita Borjaâs performance La Deuda, showcased in this 10-day event, which brought together activism, scholarship, and art around the themes of legacies, memories, struggles, and frontiers of citizenship.
Biography
Diana Raznovich is an Argentinean playwright with a long trajectory and national and international recognition. She is also a cartoonist, and has produced numerous performances and installations with her cartoons. She has been exiled in Spain since 1975.
Media
The Stressed Santuary
This santuary houses masterpieces of the relgious iconography of stress-related disorders such as "Saint Patience of the Latin America People", "Saint Calamity", "Saint Repressed", "Saint the Wife of the Holy Fugitive Spirit", "Lesbian Virgins", and other stressed virgins. If you pray to them as indicated in the sanctuary, they will fulfill your wishes. Diana Raznovich and Marlène RamÃrez-Cancio will lead a ceremony of devotion. The virgins will realize miracles in exchange for offerings. The stressed virgins will be waiting for you. Don't miss it.
Biography
Diana Raznovich is an Argentine playwright and cartoonist. Born in Buenos Aires, she has gone into exile at different moments. Her most important plays have been compiled and published in Defiant Acts (Bucknell Press, 2002), a bilingual volume with a prologue by Diana Taylor where her theatrical texts are interwoven with her cartoons. Her plays Casa Matrix (MaTRIX, Inc), JardÃn de Otoño (Inner Gardens), Desconcierto (Disconcerted), Efectos Personales (Personal Belongings), Fast Food a la Velocidad de la muerte (Fast Food at the Speed of Light), Máquinas Divinas (Divine Machines) have been translated and performed in Europe and the Americas. her feminist cartoons are regularly released in e-leusis.net and in several European and Latin American magazines and newspapers.
Media
Edited by Victor BautistaDiana Raznovich
Diana Raznovich (Buenos Aires, 12 maggio1945) è una drammaturga e fumettistaargentina.
Il suo lavoro, caratterizzato da un senso di umorismo ironico e dissacrante, tratta di femminismo, sessualità, misoginia e del periodo della dittatura militare argentina.
Biografia
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]Diana Raznovich è nata nel 1945 a Buenos Aires, la maggiore dei tre figli di Marcos Raznovich, di professione pediatra, e di Bertha Luisa Schrager, dentista. I nonni paterni, di origine ebraica, erano emigrati in Argentina a inizio Novecento dalla Russia zarista, i nonni materni due decenni dopo da Vienna.
Ha iniziato a scrivere ancora adolescente; all'età di sedici anni ha composto Tiempo de amar (Un tempo per amare), una raccolta di poesie da lei più tardi definite “nichiliste”.
Ha studiato letteratura all'Università di Buenos Aires, dove è stata scelta tra gli studenti assegnati alla lettura di libri ad alta voce per Jorge Luis Borges, allora diventato cieco.
Carriera
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]Teatro
[modifica | modifica wikitesto]La sua commedia di debutto, Buscapiés, ha vinto un concorso teatrale nel 1967, quando aveva solamente 22 anni. Dopo aver scritto numerose altre opere teatrali alla fine degli anni '60 e all'inizio degli anni '70, la sua carriera è stata interrotta dalla violenza politica e dalla repressione. Suo marito Ernesto Clusellas scomparve nel 1974, prima della guerra sporca in Argentina, durante l'escalation della persecuzione politica. Era stato attivamente coinvolto nel movimento di resistenza e, all'insaputa di Raznovich, aveva conservato un arsenale di armi nel loro appartamento.
L'anno successivo alla scomparsa del marito, Raznovich lasciò l'Argentina a seguito delle minacce pervenutele da parte delle forze armate, si trasferì in Spagna, dove insegnò drammaturgia al Centro de Estudios Teatr