Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Performance artist Yanira Castro shares how her work is a medium to connect and engage with the Puerto Rican diaspora and the American public. Focusing on ideas of consent, refusal, political theater, and the colonial relationship between the US and Puerto Rico, we watch her first public art project called Exorcism = Liberation come to life.

Diasporican Art in Motion Docuseries is a dynamic portrait series highlighting ten Puerto Rican artists living and creating in New York City. This curated selection is part of CENTRO’s Diasporican Art in Motion (DAM) initiative, a digital repository and research catalyst, and represents a living archive of Puerto Rican cultural expression in the U.S. diaspora.

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Executive Producers
Ángel Antonio Ruiz-Laboy
Yomaira Figueroa-Vásquez

Producers
Glorimar Garcia
Carlos Rivera Fernández

Co-producers
Andrès Arias
Kristian Otero

Series editor
Carlos Rivera Fernández

Camera
Carlos Rivera Fernández

Secondary camera
Luis Johansel Cruz
Andrès Arias
Kristian Otero
Elizabeth Rodríguez
Eduardo Vilchez

Production assistants
Adrián Muñoz
Gabriella Cuellar
Jon Sosa
Luis Johansel Cruz

Subtitles and translations
Sebastián Meltz-Collazo

with assistance from
Merari Alvarado