Alex Viteri Arturo | Graduate Center

Pronouns: they, she/ella

Ph.D Candidate Theater and Performance

In her research, Alex is attentive to collective actions emerging along the Cordillera de los Andes in defense of the territory and it’s inhabitants. In the region, Indigenous and campesino women are leading the struggles against extractivism and global capitalism’s predatory and pillage-oriented model of development within persistent patriarchal frameworks. In their struggles, theory is rooted in bodies and matter, they theorize by speaking, feeling, dancing, smelling, and touching. Alex departs from this understanding of theory to analyze forms of environmental advocacy within the performing arts. In deep conversation with grassroots initiatives, they contribute to the construction of a political logic and nurture individual and collective bodies capable of challenging the deadly rationale of capitalism. They propose practices that improve the quality of life for humans and non-humans. Alex is excited to tune into the fights and joys of environmental justice in the neighborhood where they eat, work, play and love. They are honored to be part of El Puente’s long history of environmental and social work, to join their team of artists and learn from their fights.