Neither here nor there
Traces of the feminine in the photoperformances of Ana Mendieta
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3855271 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Olga Da Costa Lima Wanderley (Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Pages | 319-330 |
| Publication date | 2017-12-29 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comunicação e Sociedade (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1645-2089 • E-ISSN: 2183-3575 |
| Publisher | University of Minho (PUBLISHER • PT) |
| DOI | 10.17231/comsoc.32(2017).2764 |
| OpenAlex | W2776694875 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
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
Aesthetics · Art · Ethnic group · Event (particle physics · Hegemony · Identity (music · Performativity · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Anthropology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Photographic and Visual Arts
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |