Análisis del archivo como método para la elaboración y transmisión de nuevos discursos históricos a través del caso de estudio «Re.Act.Feminism #2: A performing archive»: A case study: «Re.Act.Feminism #2: A performing archive»

Abstract

The attempts to value the work of female artists are increasing, and, consequently, new historical discourses that challenge the official androcentric narratives are being created, thanks above all, to the second wave of feminism and to feminist theories. Thus, this article is part of this trend, since we analyze one of the exhibition methods used for this purpose: the archive. Specifically, we study the creation of new unofficial archives and their subsequent presentation through the exhibition, as a strategy that enables visibility and creates new historical discourses, disassociating from the modes and systems of creation of patriarchal narrative and normative. We made this analysis through the case study «Re.Act.Feminism #2: A performing archive», an itinerant exhibition, whose core was an archive that compiles the documentation of the performances related to the feminist theories and performed by female artists.