From Dual Tragedies Of His Youth, Edwin Salas Says 'I Make Performance From My Trauma' - a podcast by Blue Ridge Public Radio - BPR Arts & Performance

It's difficult to tell which is more unsettling, the memory Edwin Salas carries of his rape 30 years ago inside a Costa Rican museum or that the rape shaped him as an artist. "The man closed the door in a little room with a collection of insect and began to hit me," Salas recalled. "From there come from my first performance, in Italy, about a pedophilic relationship." Even more disturbing: That might not be the most traumatic episode in Salas' life. Born in Mexico, Salas said he was just 3 years

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