Date of this Version
7-6-2022
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Abstract
LasTesis, a Chilean performance group that choreographed a feminist dance and chant titled Un violador en tu camino (2019) (A rapist in your path) gathers women of all ages and backgropunds. Their bodies dance and chant in unison echoing the tethered notions of collaboration and contamination as thinking, as a massive contamination. This article explores how contamination affects identity and how it also enables the trace of a traumatic past while imagining different futures that are imminent and important. I argue that this knowledge and assertive action exemplified in the performance Un violador en tu camino involves a physical reclaiming of space, a collaborative assertion, an assemblage of bodies that create a human barricade, leading to a mass-contamination (mass and massive referring to the viral reach of the video performances). Indeed, women not only confront the State, but they proclaim agency saying, ‘No more!’ proposing a collective re-thinking from a shifted position.
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Recommended Citation
Pease, Silvia Márquez, "LasTesis: mass-collaboration + mass-contaminated language = changing the story" (2022). Department of Art and Art History. 5.
https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/art-art-history/5
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