Towards a post-human and decolonial laugh: Building a monstrous feminist laughterisistance in the clownery
Abstract
In the last two decades, various female clowns have been developing a movement of visibility of this comic type, both in the circus and in the theater. Festivals, workshops and research have been contributing to write the doubly eccentric herstories of women in clowning. This honorable movement, however, still seems to follow the same archetypal logic of the modern clown, heir to the Enlightenment. This work values the female clown as a fundamental political body, with the potential to create plural laughters that can deconstruct the figure of the modern clown and the humanistic laugh embodied in its archetype. It recognizes the historical importance of female clowns, and invites a step forward in its artistic body politics, now from a feminist post-humanist and decolonial perspective, proposing artistic and theoretical coalitions in favor of a democracy of laughter. Through the creation of monstrous mobile feminist figurations, the project aims to encourage a movement of laughteresistance at modern, enlightened, colonial, humanistic, and patriarchal laughter.
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