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BIO
Diamela Eltit is a distinguished Chilean performance artist, novelist and cultural critic. Winner of the Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous other awards and appointments, Eltit was a member of the acclaimed Colectivo de Acciones de Arte (CADA) during the years of the Pinochet dictatorship, and has been an important cultural presence during the years of the post-dictatorship through her participation in journals such as La Revista de Crítica Cultural. Both as an artist and a critic, Eltit’s work has made important contributions to feminist theory and she has been a regular contributor to debate feminista. In 2000, she published Emergencias: Escritos sobre literatura, arte y política, a book of essays which brings together some of her literary and cultural criticism. Her narrative work includes Lumpérica (1983), Por la patria (1986), El cuarto mundo (1988), El padre mío (1989), Vaca sagrada (1991), El infarto del alma, with photographer Paz Errázuriz (1994), Los vigilantes (1994), Los trabajadores de la muerte (1998), Mano de obra (2002), Puño y letra (2005), and most recently Jamás el fuego nunca (2007).
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This essay intends to approach, somewhat arbitrarily, the effects of the body (of certain bodies) in the political arena and in aesthetic spaces. It also posits the body as a symptom and an effect, examining the trail of power it leaves in its wake.
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by Diamela Eltit
Improvising Tomorrow’s Bodies: The Politics of Transduction
by George Lewis (Columbia University)
Cuerpo social y cuerpo poético en la escena argentina
by Jorge Dubatti (UBA)
Por Uma Nova Invisibilidade
by Denilson Lopes (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro)
Ya no más cuerpos muertos: mediación e interrupción en el reconocimiento de lo ranquel
by Axel Lazzari (Columbia University)
Condensaciones y desplazamientos: Las políticas del miedo en los cuerpos contemporáneos
by Rossana Reguillo (ITESO)
Points of View
Danza e integración social
by Inés Sanguinetti (Crear Vale la Pena)
Artist Presentations
Witness to the Ruins: Mapa Teatro
Buried in the Body of Remembrance: Secos y Mojados
Retro Perspective/It is a Small House and We have Lived in It Always: Split Britches
e-gallery
Imposturas: Mariana Sosnowski-Veronica Vitullo,
Hard Wear: Lauren Kalman
Grupo Escombros
Reports from the Field
Visualizing Absence
by Lorie Novak, Barbara Sutton and Mirta Kupferminc
Roundtable
Youth and Visual Arts: political experiments with bodies, corporeal experiments with politics
MapUrbe’zine: los cuerpos de “la lucha” en el circuito Heavy-Punk Mapuche
by Lorena Cañuqueo and Laura Kropff (UNCOMA-Wefkvletuyiñ and UBA-CONICET-Wefkvletuyiñ)
Reflexiones sobre una intervención urbana: el Proyecto Filoctetes
by María Silvina Persino (Trinity College)
Bullets for B-Roll: Shooting Native Films and Street Gangs in Western Canadian Cities
by Kathleen Buddle-Crowe (University of Manitoba)
Fuerza, acontecimiento y herencia
by Pedro Ovando (Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia)
Reviews
Book: Ana Longoni. Traiciones. La figura del traidor en los relatos acerca de los sobrevivientes de la represión
by German Soprano (CONICET, UNGS y UNLP)
Book: Karen Mary Davalos. Exhibiting Mestizaje: Mexican (American) Museums in the Diaspora
by Sandy Garcia
Performance: Zona Pellucida. 2boystv.
by Ramón Rivera Servera (Northwestern University)
Performance: os “Experimentos Gramíneos” de Maicyra Leão
by Isis McElroy (Arizona State University)
Film: Transbordo: Cortos queer y trans en el Centro Cultural Recoleta
by Carmen Oquendo Villar (Harvard University)
Film: Imágenes de la transformación
by Claudio Pansera (Universidad Nacional de Cuyo)
Humor
Fat!
by Diana Raznovich
Activism
Travestis: una identidad política
by Lohana Berkins (ALITT)
Así como tú me quieres, yo no quiero ser de ti
by María Galindo (Mujeres Creando)
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