Paths and discoveries: Collaborative practices with incarcerated women in Centro de Reinserción Social in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.6018/reapi.558161
Keywords: reintegration center, body, affects, artistic pedagogical practices, undisciplined

Abstract

This article presents the discoveries of Ave Fénix, a project that works with incarcerated women in Centro de Reinserción Social in Mexicali, Baja California, México. We explored the possibilities of collaborative and interdisciplinary work, where experimentation and dialogue became the foundations for creating experiences located in the body and affects. This laboratory starts from a disobedient and undisciplined epistemology that operates from horizontality, affectivities, and communality. Drawing, painting, performative exercises, photography, writing, and body movement were integrated as pedagogical artistic processes that triggered transformative events.

The project proposes an affective and embodied artistic-pedagogical practice that responds to encounters as a process to resignify life as dignified and autonomous, and envisions

 possibilities for agency and solidarity in a site of control and discipline. We present the findings that created moments of resistance and re-existence for all the people who participated in the project.

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Author Biographies

Alejandro Espinoza Galindo, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

Master in Theory and History of Art from the University of Chile. Professor-Researcher at the Faculty of Arts of the Autonomous University of Baja California. He is currently pursuing a PhD in Critical Theory from 17, Instituto de Estudios Críticos. His lines of research revolve around performance theory and interdisciplinary arts, with special emphasis on the intersections between writing and art actions. Between 2015 and 2017, together with the Tumbona publishing house in Mexico City, he coordinated and translated the Fluxus Archive, a series of publications dedicated to the work of Allan Kaprow and Dick Higgins, as well as the translation of an anthology of writing for performance.

Kenya Herrera Bórquez, Universidad Autónoma de Baja California

PhD in Cultural Studies from the University of Potsdam. She is a teacher in Sociocultural Studies and a graduate in Psychology from the Autonomous University of Baja California (UABC). She is a full-time research professor at the UABC Faculty of Human Sciences. Her thematic lines of research are the intersections between gender, violence, and culture, decolonial feminisms, and transdisciplinary and collaborative research processes. Her first book is “The bitch here is me. Bodies and female subjectivities in the narcoculture of the northern border of Mexico. She collaborates with Marycarmen Arroyo and Alejandro Espinoza in interdisciplinary artistic-pedagogical interventions.

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Published
30-06-2023
How to Cite
Arroyo, M., Espinoza Galindo, A., & Herrera Bórquez, K. . (2023). Paths and discoveries: Collaborative practices with incarcerated women in Centro de Reinserción Social in Mexicali, Baja California, Mexico. Art and Identity Policies, 28, 123–137. https://doi.org/10.6018/reapi.558161
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Vol. 28 (2023): Visualizations and narratives of resistance. Repression, violence and ecological resilience
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