"If I could get someone to accept any small gesture of kindness, like a glass
of tea, a special food item, a book, writing materials, etc., then I had him!
" Anonymous Counterintelligence Officer, 12/30/02.
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Hector Aristizabal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
FINAL NOTICE MY FRIENDS. HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE IF YOU CAN. LOVE,
HECTOR
C.O.L.A. 2007 Individual Artist Fellowships
Currently I am a 2007 recipient of the City of LA Fellowship for
Performance (paid for by the Department of Cultural Affairs-- your tax
dollars!!!)
Dear friends I want to invite you all to the premiere of my newest solo
theater performance: "IN-TE-A-RRO-R-GATOR" On Sunday, May 27, 2007 at
Barnsdall Gallery Theater 4800 Hollywood Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90027 For more
information: 1-866-881-8399 The evening will also include readings by LA
writers: Diane Lefer reading from her new novel: Phantom Heart" and poet Luis
Rodriguez will read from "Making Medicine" and other poems. Event starts at 4
p.m and is free to the public. Not appropriate for young audiences.
IN-TEA-RRO-R-GATOR "If I could get someone to accept any small gesture of
kindness, like a glass of tea, a special food item, a book, writing materials,
etc., then I had him! " Anonymous Counterintelligence Officer, 12/30/02. Meet
the face behind the operation in an engaging one-person show based on the real
life character of a U.S counterintelligence officer. Colombian psychologist
and actor Hector Aristizábal grapples with the persona of
a U.S. counterintelligence officer. Aristizabal takes us on a journey through
the mind of an interrogator who believes that his work is informed by cultural
sensitivity and knowledge. In this theatrical encounter we get to sip tea with
the interrogator and participate in the stories he tells. We become
terrorists, and potential interrogators. This highly provocative play is
inspired by real extensive correspondence between the interrogator himself and
social scientist, Jean Maria Arrigo. The officer this play is based on, was
trained as both an anthropologist and a police explosives expert, and served
as a liaison to counter terrorist police teams in the Middle East. The
officer reflects on scenes of violent Middle Eastern interrogation of supposed
terrorists and on his own experiences with less violent methods. He sizes up
the terrorist threat, the prospects of detainees, the needs of his
subordinates, the failings of his superiors, and the foibles of
meddling human rights activists. A survivor of state-sponsored torture
himself (Colombia, 1982), Hector becomes his nemesis, the torturer, in frank
investigation of Carl Jung's dictum, "The healthy man does not torture
othersgenerally it is the tortured who turn into torturers." The script was
created by Hector Aristizabal and Vivien Sansour from Correspondence between a
U.S. Counterintelligence Liaison Officer & Jean Maria Arrigo,2002-2006,
Project on Ethics and Art in Testimony; additional copy archived in the
Intelligence Ethics Collection, Hoover Institution Archives, Stanford
University. The final product is under the direction of Brian Brophy.
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"A Taste of C.O.L.A." Thursday May 24, at 7:30 p.m. experience "A Taste of
C.O.L.A." Opening night with pre-reception excerpts of new works by C.O.L.A.
performing and literary artists. At this reception Musician Enzo Fina and I
will perform "Nightwind." Barnsdall Gallery Theater 4800 Hollywood Blvd Los
Angeles, CA 90027 For more information: 1-866-881-8399
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