“Neither here nor there”: traces of the feminine in the photoperformances of Ana Mendieta

Comunicação e Sociedade

Olga da Costa Lima Wanderley¹ 

[1] Universidade Federal de Pernambuco;

关键词: Ana Mendieta;    photography;    feminility;    performance;    performativity;   

DOI  :  10.17231/comsoc.32(2017).2764

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

This article addresses the questions triggered by the work of the Cuban-American artist Ana Mendieta, who has a large part of her work composed exclusively of camera performances and what she termed earth-body-works. Through her strategies of representation based on the disappearance of the female body, Mendieta draws our attention to the legitimized violence and erasures through the establishment of fixed identities – ethnic and gender – within the hegemonic discourses of power. The notions of performance as an instrument for transmission of knowledge and cultural memory, of performativity as a constitutive factor of the categories of identity, as well as of archive, repertory and live event will be explored in the effort to problematize as the themes of exile and feminine, regular in the art of Mendieta, reach a deeply political dimension based on their artistic propositions that integrate photography with performance art.

【 授权许可】

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