Las Puntuantes: Conferencia performática sobre la puntuación | Catedra José Emilio Pacheco con Verónica Gerber-Bicecci

Tuesday, October 27, 2026 | 6:00 PM
Mexican Cultural Institute
2829 16th Street NW, Washington, DC 20009

IN SPANISH

The Mexican Cultural Institute, in collaboration with the University of Maryland, presents Las puntuantes, a performance-lecture by Mexican writer and artist Verónica Gerber-Bicecci, as part of the Cátedra José Emilio Pacheco 2026.

What can a punctuation mark do? What stories, pauses, silences, and possibilities can be found between one word and another?

In Las puntuantes, Verónica Gerber-Bicecci explores punctuation from a literary and artistic perspective, examining its forms, meanings, and possibilities. The performance combines spoken word, costume, objects, video, sound, and elements of audience participation to transform a reflection on language into a theatrical experience.

Lasting approximately 50 minutes, this performance-lecture invites audiences to look at punctuation in a new way and discover everything that can happen in the spaces between words.

ABOUT THE ARTIST:

Verónica Gerber-Bicecci is a Mexican writer and visual artist whose work explores the relationships between literature, language, and visual art. Her practice moves across different media and forms, creating works that challenge the boundaries between writing and visual expression.

ABOUT THE CATEDRA JOSÉ EMILIO PACHECO:

The Department of Spanish and Portuguese (SPAP) at the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures (SLLC) of the University of Maryland in College Park created the José Emilio Pacheco Distinguished Lecture Series: Cátedra José Emilio Pacheco in collaboration with the Mexican Cultural Institute back in 2016 as a forum for exceptionally great writers, thinkers, philosophers, and scholars who articulate their creative work around Mexico and Latin American literary and cultural traditions, and on the aesthetic, ethical, and human values that José Emilio Pacheco championed.

Pacheco was a Distinguished University Professor at Maryland from 1984 to 2006, and he taught and trained a long list of prominent Mexican writers and intellectuals and an international cohort of students.