Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra

Touched Bodies: The Performative Turn in Latin American Art

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Produktbeschreibung

Polgovsky Ezcurra examines the politics and ethics of intermedial performance in Latin America during the “long 1980s”. Looking at the work of artists from Argentina, Chile, and Mexico, she examines the flourishing of performance art in times of authoritarianism and the ways in which performative gestures animated a range of artistic practices, including collage, poetry, sculpture, mail art, and cybernetic art.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None
• Seitenzahl: 276
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9781978802032
• ISBN-10: 197880203X
• Artikelnr.: 54164183

Autorenporträt

Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra is a lecturer in contemporary art at Birkbeck, University of London in the United Kingdom. She is coeditor of Sabotage Art: Politics and Iconoclasm in Contemporary Latin America.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
            Corporeal calligraphies in times of change
            The long 1980s: redefining the temporality of art
            From curatorial to historical revisionism
            Beyond the art of post-dictatorship
            From memory studies to the aesthetics of dissensus
            The performative turn
            The ethics of performance
            Overview of chapters
Chapter 1 - Writing the Body
            A precarious aesthetic
            A monstrous scene
            Territories of excess
            Sacrificial bodies
            Neonic Obscenity
            A mystical occasion
            Sor Teresa, la Lumpérica
            A corporeal rhetoric
            The implicated self
Chapter 2 - Lamentations
            Prayerful acts
            Sky writing and the poetics of ambiguity
            The new life
            Song for his/her disappeared love
            The politics of lamentation
            Purgatory
            Neither sorrow nor fear
            (Un)godly fragments
Chapter 3 - M¿ mou haptou: Touch, Ethics, and History
            Waiting for Ariel
            A political medium?
            A tortured era
            A glimpse into 1960s collage
            Noli me tangere
            Brailles
            The haptic gaze
            Never Again
            Scenes from inferno
            Pacem in terris
Chapter 4 - Nudities
            Le féminin
            Christs and mannequins
            Divine phobia
            Intimacy reawakened
            A scourge from God?
Chapter 5 - Ritual and/of Violence
            Potlatch
            The scene of destruction
            The scene of war
            Mexico's parodic guerrilla art
            The scene of ritual
            Liminal personae
            The scene of terror
            Letter bombing
            The scene of the self
            Exploding time
Chapter 6 - Cybernetics and Face-off Play
            The hybrid face
            The interface
            Facial traces
            The (post-)facial matrix
Conclusion
Touched bodies
The trace
Acknowledgments
List of References
List of Figures
Index