"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. PLEASE FORWARD
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. --------------------------------- "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 [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/