No. 02 (2020): Feminist performances from Latin America and the Spanish State. Crossings, reflections, singularities.

Feminist Performances from Latin America and the Spanish State: Crossings, Reflections, Singularities has been coordinated by Julia Antivilo and Maria Laura Rosa to address the undisciplined discipline of feminist performance, developed in Latin America and the Spanish State from the 1970s to the present.

While performance, understood as an action carried out in a specific time and space, examines, rewrites, and questions patriarchal cultural codes, it also positions the body as both subject and object of the work. In this sense, it has offered feminist artists a privileged site from which to challenge identity as something fixed, enabling processes of self-knowledge and liberation. Although it is an ephemeral medium, its capacity to activate critical methodologies around historical, social, and cultural practices has made it possible to conceptualize and politicize the personal. Thus, feminist performers have transformed the slogan “the personal is political” into “the body is political,” articulating actions in which social theory is embodied in the body itself as an extension of the social body.