Embodied Memory in Las Horas de Belen. A Book of Hours
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4553240 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Roselyn Costantino (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 53 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 607-632 |
| Publication date | 2001-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theatre Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0192-2882 • E-ISSN: 1086-332X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/tj.2001.0101 |
| OpenAlex | W2066927115 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 9 |
Over the last few decades scholars, artists, and activists have expanded the breadth and depth of the feminist practice of recuperating women's lives, voices, and worldview. They do so by filling the gaps in the story of humankind as they uncover the myriad ways that the structures of knowledge, memory, value, representation, and power inextricably intertwine. In this tradition, in Las Horas de Belén. A Book of Hours, a team of U.S. and Mexican women artists utilizes the body and the lived experiences of both performer and spectator as instruments to excavate and record the multiple dimensions of women's realities, the systems constructed to dominate them, and their subsequent strategies of resistance. Through performance, the artists wrench previously obfuscated consequences of those systems from the domain of the symbolic. They make visible the real bodies that bear the markings of violence perpetrated upon women. In this way, the body materializes as both vehicle and message, caught between the spaces where discourses of culture, aesthetics, gender, and identity intersect with those of power in its multiple manifestations
Aesthetics · Art · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Identity (music · Performing arts · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Representation (politics · Resistance (ecology · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Visual arts · Wrench · Computer Science · Engineering · Gender Studies · Irish and British Studies · Latin American and Latino Studies · Law · Philosophy · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2016 - 2016 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |