Juan Arias
Juan Arias is a Ph.D. student in Performance Studies at NYU, United States. Through artistic pieces, he studies ninguneo as a technique of racialization that maintains the social hierarchies in Latin America, where the majority of the population considers itself mestizo. Ninguneo is a social practice that consists of turning somebody into a nobody.
Arias has been involved in the theatre sector of Bogotá, Colombia, my homeland, as a playwright. He has worked for eight years in the administration office of Teatro Libre, one of the most important and long standing Colombian theatrical groups. Besides, he was a lecturer at the Dramatic Arts Program of the School of Arts at Universidad Central (Bogotá). In both institutions, he took part in more than twenty productions. Three of his original plays were published in 2018.