Danças para não morrer: historiografias encarnadas de performances feministas latino-americanas

Abstract

This study reports the experience of reactivating, re-enacting and reagencing 11 dance and performance works initially created between 1973 and 2000 by Latin American artists and revisited by the artist-researcher author of this thesis between 2018 and 2020. These dances and performances address issues related to gender violence and state violence produced by patriarchal colonial culture and were chosen from a preliminary survey of 62 artists. To methodologically guide the study, the category Incarnated Historiographies is proposed, which allows the expansion and the understanding about what archives are, about the researcher's role as a knowing subject and about how to deal with the reference materials. This approach also encourages the elaboration of situated, feminist and decolonial historiographic writings, carried out through embodied materialities (reenactment and reagencies), oral materialities (conversations, interviews, conferences), written materialities (letters, poems, logbooks) and curatorial materialities (mixed constructions with images and texts of different natures). In this way, the study presents examples of these materialities and the discussions that emerged from the fact that they were produced, dealing above all with issues of gender, coloniality and violence, building dialogues and associations between the works of art studied, their re enactment and reagencies, and analyzes of feminist and decolonial intellectuals who deal with these phenomena. Important references for the elaboration of these constructions were the discussion of femi-genocide in Latin America proposed by the Argentinean anthropologist Rita Segato and the proposal of necropower and necropolitics developed by the Cameroonian philosopher Achille Mbembe