Gore Aesthetics

Chilean Necroliberalism And Travesti Resistance

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2170485
AutoresCole Rizki (0000-0001-9445-7009, autor de correspondencia)
Año2023
Volumen32
Número4
Páginas681-703
Fecha de publicación2023-10-02
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of Latin American Cultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1356-9325 • E-ISSN: 1469-9575
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13569325.2023.2260331
OpenAlexW4391111111
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas21

This article develops a concept I call "gore aesthetics" by focusing on the regulatory and productive capacity of sexual obscenity and gore in contemporary performance art to diagnose shifts in neoliberalism's perceptual regimes. To do so, I centre the artistic practice and legacy of Chilean performance artist and underground, travesti punk monstrosity Hija de Perra or Daughter of a Bitch (1980–2014) to consider how her performance art, sexually obscene gore aesthetic, and legacy highlight the intensification of what Sayak Valencia theorizes as "necroliberalism". As neoliberalism's "b-side" (Valencia Citation2010), necroliberalism represents a form of governance and power organised by heightened modes of extractive violence against racialised, poor, queer, femme, trans, and travesti subjects in the Global South that produces value through death. Reading Hija de Perra's work, the extractive circumstances surrounding her untimely death from HIV/AIDS complications and the post mortem performances that ensued through sexual obscenity and gore, I argue that gore aesthetics ultimately foreground necroliberalism's intensification and operate as a travesti strategy of resistance to the extractive violence this form of power and governance occasions. At the same time, I consider gore's limitations when state actors co-opt gore aesthetics, as occurred during the Chilean estallido (2019) when police intentionally maimed protestors

Aesthetics · Art · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Queer · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · State of exception · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Music History and Culture · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology