El gestus y las prácticas feministas performativas

Abstract

This paper examines feminist artistic practices that confront the real investigating ways of relating with the body. These practices receive the legacy of the Brecht's theater gestus. They are practices that produce knowledge. These performative artworks have politicized the body and the private and public spaces; they can be performances or action art, or they can use another medium, like photography or film. We note a genealogy of feminist artworks made in the 70's and from the 90's whose common search is the revelation of a social gestus from the bodies. Both periods are productive in artistic practices socially and politically committed. After solipsism reinforced by postmodern culture, 1968 activism reappears in the 90's and the search for a reunion with intersubjectivity and social reality (Sánchez 2007).