Deshaciendo el vínculo melancólico: sufrimiento interior, dolor de género y nuevas subjetividades en el arte contemporáneo (body art “dolorista” y “giro performativo”)
Abstract
We will carry out a description of the two main types of different motivations that may be underlying the body art (“painful”) of the 60’s-70’s, that is, the body art (“painful”) that responds to an internal suffering (“activist”), and the the body art that experiments with the limits of the body; we will apply the theoretic concept of J. Butler’s gender pain (based on Freud’s “melancholic” concept) to explain, via an analogy with the melancholic process of the lost object, the psychological mechanism of “internal suffering” that could be activated in the body art “painful” (“activist”) in the case of non hegemonic identities (gender, sexual, ethnic), and whose melancholic bond produces an impoverishment of the ego (I) due to an identification with the object that has abandoned him (her) (or discriminated and ashamed him (her) in the case we are dealing with), so that the subject blames himself (herself), his (her) selfsteem deteriorates as a result of directing anger and pain towards oneself, instead of towards the objet that has abandoned him (her); we will extrapolate that explanation to the phenomenon of the emergence of the new subjectivities in the art of the nineties, so that, through the “performative turn” it has been possible to overcome in same ways the melancholic bond, as the anger and pain has been directed towards social claims.Downloads
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