Una canción sin género: Notas sobre performatividad y agencia en los bertsos de Maialen Lujanbio

Abstract

The article proposes a performative approach to the performance of Maialen Lujanbio in the final competition for the Euskal Herriko Bertsolari Txapelketa in 2017. The article explores the concept of stage performance proposed by Fischer-Lichte and reviews the notions of production of meaning, performativity and performance to infer the transformative possibilities of the bertsolari´s work. The text defends that the material, beyond the context in which its live reception took place, survives as an artistic object, bodyprint and political document. The performative qualities present in the creation and live execution place the author's bertsos in the context of the sensitive, a reception that activates an archive affection that goes beyond the temporal space limits of the original representation and places the reader-viewer back in front of the cultural and social – and therefore political – images arising from improvisation.