Focus 5

Performativity and dissident corporealities/ sexualities.

Performance and dissidence: bodies that escape and resist the norm. Subjectivity as a political fiction inscribed on the body: sexual identity/ies. Visibilization of abject bodies. Reflections around the pathologization of difference. Bodies under construction, reproduction, resistance, resignification, and transformation. The inventions of freedom. Queer theory. Gender studies. Postporn modernist. postpornography. Feminism and trans-feminism. Connections between city, art and sexual minorities. The city as a configuration regulating bodies according to sex-gender. Dissident geographies: deviated use of public spaces. The drag scene and the theatralization of gender. Transvestism and exhibition of political rhetorics in conflict. Monstrosity and animality. Gender as a coding criteria to separate the human from the inhuman.

More info: Bienal de Performance Área Académica / UNA

Seminar

Engaging the body.
Performance and political action in the 80s in Latin America.
Dr. Ana Longoni, Dr. María Laura (Malala) González
and Mg. Fernanda Carvajal (Argentina/Chile)

Conference

Emancipated sensitivities.
Performance, feminism, and political disruption
of bodies in art in Latin America.
Dr. Andrea Giunta (Argentina)
Presented by Dra. Graciela Morgade

Conference

Working with uncertainty:
the 49 Nord 6 Est Collection at Frac Lorraine.
Béatrice Josse (France)
Presented by: Dr. Andrea Giunta

Workshop

Performative practices around dissident bodies.
Crippled post-porn activism, transfeminists.
Grupo POST OP: Elena Urko and Majo Pulido (Spain)

Crossroads

Empowering ourselves from monstrosity.
Grupo POST OP: Elena Urko and Majo Pulido (Spain)