Yanira Castro / a canary torsi
I came here to weep is a performance and collective exorcism co-created with the public. It is a multimodal, interactive project that examines U.S. territorial possession through the redaction, deconstruction and performance of absurdist colonial texts. The iteration at The Chocolate Factory Theater focuses on The Treaty of Paris 1898, which ceded the current colonies of Puerto Rico and Guam, and other territories colonized by Spain, to the U.S.